Driving Downtown Neighborhoods - Financial District - Boston Massachusetts USA - Episode 6.
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The Financial District of Boston, Massachusetts, United States is located in the downtown area near Government Center and Chinatown.

The Financial District also contains the headquarters of the mutual fund companies Fidelity Investments, Putnam Investments, and DWS Scudder Investments; the world headquarters for State Street Bank and Eastern Bank; accounting firms Wolf & Company, P.C., PricewaterhouseCoopers, RSM McGladrey and BDO USA, LLP; loan advisor The Debt Exchange; the law firms of Bingham McCutchen, Goodwin Procter, WilmerHale, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, and Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, PC; the local headquarters of Bank of America (formerly Fleet Bank) and Sovereign Bank; the Langham Hotel Boston and Hilton Hotel; and the local offices of Merrill Lynch and other brokerages.

Dewey Square, One Financial Center, and the plaza and towers housing the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston are located near South Station, adjacent to and just south of the area defined above. Also part of the Financial District are 33 Arch Street, One Federal Street, the First National Bank Building building, 100 Summer Street, and 101 Federal Street. The area contains many of Boston's highrise buildings in a fairly densely packed area, significantly more than the Back Bay which contains Boston's two tallest highrises, the Prudential Center and the John Hancock Tower.

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Boston
Boston is the capital and largest city[8] of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

The city proper covers 48 square miles (124 km2) with an estimated population of 667,137 in 2015,[10] making it the largest city in New England and the 23rd largest city in the United States.[2] The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.7 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the country.[5] Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 8.1 million people, making it the sixth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.

One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England.[12][13] It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon U.S. independence from Great Britain, the city continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub, as well as a center for education and culture.[14][15] Through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year.[16] Boston's many firsts include the United States' first public school, Boston Latin School (1635),[17] first subway system (1897),[18] and first public park (1634).

The area's many colleges and universities make Boston an international center of higher education,[19] including law, medicine, engineering, and business, and the city is considered to be a world leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.[20][21] Boston's economic base also includes finance,[22] professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, and government activities.[23] Households in the city claim the highest average rate of philanthropy in the United States;[24] businesses and institutions rank among the top in the country for environmental sustainability and investment.[25] The city has one of the highest costs of living in the United States,[26] though it remains high on world livability rankings.

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