Finishing the Big Dig / Photo gallery
Finishing the Big Dig The hulking steel highway begins to snake its way through downtown in 1954, cutting off the North End from the rest of the city. Eventually many Bostonians began referring to the Artery as Boston's "other Green Monster" -- the original being Fenway Park's famous left-field wall.

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