Park Street (MBTA station)

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Red Line
		Alewife

		Davis

		Porter



		Harvard

		Central

		Kendall/MIT

		Charles/MGH

		Park Street



		Downtown Crossing



		South Station



		Broadway

		Andrew


		JFK/UMass



		Savin Hill

		Fields Corner

		Shawmut

		Ashmont


	High Speed Line to
		Mattapan

		North Quincy

		Wollaston

		Quincy Center



		Quincy Adams

		Braintree

	Green Line
									Lechmere "E" END

									Science Park

									North Station "C" END



									Haymarket



									Government Center "B"-"D" END



									Park Street



									Boylston



									Arlington

									Copley
									"E" Branch to Heath


									Hynes

									Kenmore

	"B" Branch to Boston College "C" Branch to Cleveland Circle "D" Branch to Riverside

An Entrance to the MBTA's Park Street Station in Boston Mass, February 2005

Park Street Station, streetcar (now Green Line) platforms, circa 1898

Park Street Station, Green Line platforms, December 2004

Park Street Under, Red Line platforms, January 2005

Park Street Station of the MBTA, located at the intersection of Park Street and Tremont Street in Boston at a corner of Boston Common, is the main transfer point between the Green Line and the Red Line. Throughout the green and red lines, trains labeled "inbound" are headed towards this station, while those labeled "outbound" are headed away.

The Green Line portion of this station was originally constructed in 1897, making it one of the two oldest subway stations in the United States, along with Boylston. The Red Line portion beneath it, sometimes called Park Street Under, was constructed in 1912.

1 Facilities
2 Nearby destinations
3 Bus connections
4 Accessibility
5 Trivia
6 External links

[edit] Facilities

Underground Winter Street Concourse to Downtown Crossing, for a connection to the Orange Line and Silver Line buses.

[edit] Nearby destinations

the Massachusetts State House, seat of the state's government
Boston Common
Suffolk University
Emerson College
Freedom Trail
the Boston Paulist Center
theater and cinema
shops and restaurants

[edit] Bus connections

43 Ruggles Station
55 Jersey & Queensberry via Copley Sq. & Ipswich St.

[edit] Accessibility

Park Street Station is wheelchair accessible, after a renovation completed in 2004. The Red Line station has both island and side platforms. Only the island platform has elevator access. See also: MBTA accessibility.

[edit] Trivia

Park Street makes a cameo appearance in the first paragraph of the 1927 H.P. Lovecraft story, "Pickman's Model." It also appears near the end of his 1936 novella "At the Mountains of Madness."