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Longwood Medical Area (MBTA station)

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Line(s)
  
Green Line "E" Branch

Disabled access
  
Yes

Platforms in use
  
2

Connections
  
MBTA Bus: CT2, 39

Rebuilt
  
2001-2003

Tracks
  
2

Longwood Medical Area (MBTA station)

Location
  
Huntington Avenue at Longwood Avenue Boston, Massachusetts

Owned by
  
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Address
  
Boston, MA 02115, United States

Owner
  
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Similar
  
Brigham Circle, Museum of Fine Arts, Heath Street, Ken, Mission Park

Longwood Medical Area is a light rail stop on the MBTA Green Line "E" Branch, located in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the named for the adjacent Longwood Medical Area, which is the home of Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. (Brigham Circle, which is one stop further outbound, is actually closer to most of the buildings of Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health.)

Colleges located near the stop include Wentworth Institute of Technology, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). It is also the closest Green Line stop to Boston Latin School.

The station was renamed from Longwood-Hospitals to Longwood Medical Area in the 1980s. The similarly named Longwood station on the D branch of the Green Line is located across the Riverway at the opposite end of the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, a cluster of academic and medical facilities that lie along Longwood Avenue.

Longwood Medical Area's 3,813 daily boardings make it the busiest surface stop on the Green Line. The station is fully handicapped accessible.

Bus connections

The station is served by two MBTA Bus routes:

  • CT2 Sullivan Station - Ruggles Station via Kendall/MIT
  • 39 Forest Hills Station - Back Bay Stataion via Huntington Avenue
  • References

    Longwood Medical Area (MBTA station) Wikipedia