The Haymarket Review

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The Haymarket

  • Address: Marshall and Blackstone Sts., Government Center, Boston, MA, 02109 | Map It

Fodor's Review:

Loud, self-promoting vendors pack this exuberant maze of a marketplace at Marshall and Blackstone streets on Friday and Saturday from 7 AM until mid-afternoon (all vendors will likely be gone by 5 at the latest). Pushcart vendors hawk fruits and vegetables against a backdrop of fish, meat, and cheese shops. The accumulation of debris left every evening has been celebrated in a whimsical 1976 public-arts project—Mags Harries's Asaroton, a Greek word meaning "unswept floors"—consisting of bronze fruit peels and other detritus smashed into pavement. Another Harries piece, a bronze depiction of a gathering of stray gloves, tumbles down between the escalators in the Porter Square T station in Cambridge. At Creek Square, near the Haymarket, is the Boston Stone. Set into the brick wall of the gift shop of the same name, this was a marker long used as milepost zero in measuring distances from Boston.

  • Open: Fri. and Sat. 7AM-mid-afternoon
  • Metro: Government Center
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