Everything you'll need is right nearby.

Shopping | Dining | Health Club
Cultural and civic institutions
Transit | Highway access | Logan International Airport

We’re located at 230 Boston Street in Boston, Massachusetts. We’re on the edge of downtown, just off Massachusetts Avenue near the South Bay Center Shopping Plaza, adjacent to the booming South Boston Seaport district, and near the Boston Medical Center and the JFK Presidential Library. We are also just minutes from Boston’s red line subway, Logan International Airport, and the intersection of Interstates 93 and 90 (the Massachusetts Turnpike).

Shopping

South Bay Center is a multi-store shopping center only 4 blocks from Swank Apartments, easily accessible from Massachusetts Avenue or from I-93 north and south. At South Bay Center, you can select from these fine stores:

Dining

224 Boston Restaurant
224 Boston Street | Boston, MA 02215
(617) 265-1217
Right next door to Swank Apartments, 224’s ecclectic menu is complimented by its stylish interior, outdoor patio, and hip staff. The tray of assorted olives out on the full bar could be dinner all by itself. If you’re a fan of calamari, theirs is not to be missed.
(Next door!)

Taqueria Casa Real
860A Dorchester Avenue | Boston, MA 02125
(617) 282-3135
Though tiny (with only a handful of tables) and often crowded, this is cheap and delicious fare for quick lunches or take-home supper. We’ve eaten what seems like hundreds of their grilled chicken burritos, along with an orange Crush from a real glass bottle!
(0.3 mile away, an easily walkable long block)

dbar
1236 Dorchester Avenue | Boston, MA 02125
(617) 265-4400 | menu
dbar, formally an old school Irish pub filled with mahogany charm, has been renovated into a hip chic hot spot. A full service restaurant with an interesting and tasty menu 7 nights a week. Great bar, and a DJ after 11pm. Sunday brunch from 11 to 3:30.
(1.2 miles away)

Health Club

Gold’s Gym
323 Dorchester Avenue | Boston, MA 02125
(617) 268-5500
(1.1 miles away)

Cultural and Civic institutions

Convention & Exposition Centers | Libraries & Museums
Hospitals | Colleges & Universities

Convention & Exposition Centers

Bayside Expo Center
200 Mount Vernon Street
Columbia Point | Boston, MA 02125
(617) 474-6000
(1.5 miles away)

Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
415 Summer Street | Boston, MA 02210
(617) 954-2000
(2.8 miles away)

John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center
900 Boylston Street | Boston, MA 02115
(617) 954-2000
(2.9 miles away)

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Libraries & Museums

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Columbia Point | Boston, MA 02125
(866) JFK-1960 | (617) 514-1600
(1.5 miles away)

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
100 Northern Avenue | Boston, MA 02210
(617) 478-3100
(2.9 miles away)

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Hospitals

Boston Medical Center
One Boston Medical Center Place | Boston, MA 02118
(617) 638-8000
(1.5 miles away)

Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit Street | Boston, MA 02114
(617) 726-2000
(4.4 miles away)

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Colleges & Universities

University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd. | Boston, MA 02125
(617) 287-5000
(1.5 miles away)

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Transit

In Boston, our subway system is known as “the T”. Swank Apartments is a 10 minute walk to either the Andrew Square or JFK/UMass stations on the red line. Numerous T bus routes also connect through each of these locations. For schedules and other information, please visit the T’s website at www.mbta.com.

Highway Access

We are less than a mile to Interstate 93 north and south, 5 minutes from Interstate 90 east and west (the Massachusetts Turnpike), and 1 block from Massachusetts Avenue.

Airport

We are a 10 minute drive or cab ride to Logan International Airport.