Boston City Hall was designated a historical landmark on Jan. 25, to both praise and disapproval from readers.

In economic collapse — “dying on the vine,” as U.S. News and World Report described it in the late 1950s — Boston’s Old World sense of itself as a New World European village was crumbling as surely as ...

First Night Boston, New England’s largest New Year’s Eve party, returns to City Hall Plaza this year to celebrate the start of 2025. The free event runs from 12 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec.