Alaska Airlines Flights from New York (JFK) to Boston (BOS)
Orbitz is pleased to offer airline tickets on Alaska Airlines, which operates 6 regularly scheduled daily non-stop flights from New York (JFK) to Boston (BOS), departing between 8:20am and 10:30pm, and one additional non-stop flight regularly scheduled to depart at 3:20pm and arrive at 4:35pm, Saturdays. Usually an Embraer RJ135 or Embraer RJ140 is flown for this route. The average travel time from New York, NY to Boston, MA is 1 hour and 13 minutes.*
* Some flights must connect with additional service on this airline.
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During your Boston vacation, don't miss these great establishments and attractions:
Museum of Afro-American History
The final stop on the Black Heritage Trail, this museum offers a comprehensive look at the history and contributions of blacks in Boston and Massachusetts. It occupies the recently restored Abiel Smith School (1834), the first American public grammar school for African-American children, and the African Meeting House, 8 Smith Court. Changing and permanent exhibits use art, artifacts, documents, historic photographs, and other objects -- including many family heirlooms -- to explore an important era that often takes a back seat in Revolutionary War-obsessed New England. Children enjoy the interactive touch-screen displays and multimedia presentations, and the patient, enthusiastic staff helps them put the exhibits in context. The oldest standing black church in the United States, the meeting house opened in 1806. William Lloyd Garrison founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society in this building, where Frederick Douglass made some of his great abolitionist speeches. Once known as the "Black Faneuil Hall," it also schedules lectures, concerts, and church meetings.
USS Constitution
"Old Ironsides," one of the U.S. Navy's six original frigates, never lost a battle. The ship was constructed in the North End from 1794 to 1797 at a cost of $302,718, using bolts, spikes, and other fittings from Paul Revere's foundry. Constitution played a key role as the new nation built its naval and military reputation, battling French privateers and Barbary pirates, repelling the British fleet during the War of 1812, participating in 40 engagements, and capturing 20 vessels. The frigate earned its nickname during an engagement on August 19, 1812, when shots from HMS Guerriere bounced off its thick oak hull as if it were iron. Today, the active-duty sailors who lead tours wear 1812 dress uniforms.Retired from combat in 1815, Constitution was rescued from destruction when Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem Old Ironsides launched a preservation movement in 1830. The frigate was completely overhauled for its bicentennial in 1997, when it sailed under its own power for the first time since 1881, drawing international attention. Tugs tow Constitution into the harbor every Fourth of July for its celebratory "turnaround cruise" (the vessel must be turned regularly to ensure that it weathers evenly).To continue on the Freedom Trail: Walk straight ahead to the museum entrance.Security On "Old Ironsides"--The Charlestown Navy Yard, home to USS Constitution and the Constitution Museum, is an active military base. Expect to have your bags searched at the gate or at the access point for "Old Ironsides," where you'll probably have to pass through a metal detector. And call ahead if the national terror alert is high; the navy yard closes to civilians at the first sign of a serious threat.
Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Ever since Boston's most popular attraction was restored and reopened in 1976, cities all over the country have imitated the "festival market" concept. A complex of shops, food counters, restaurants, bars, and public spaces, Faneuil Hall Marketplace brims with Boston flavor (and the inevitable national chain outlets). Its popularity with visitors and suburbanites is so great that you could be forgiven for thinking that the only Bostonians in the crowd are employees.The marketplace includes five buildings -- the central three-building complex is on the National Register of Historic Places -- set on brick and stone plazas that teem with crowds shopping, eating, performing, watching performers, people-watching, and just generally enjoying themselves. In warm weather, the whole area is busy from just after dawn until well past dark. Quincy Market (you'll also hear the whole complex called by that name) is the central three-level Greek revival-style building. It reopened after extensive renovations on August 26, 1976, 150 years after Mayor Josiah Quincy opened the original market. The South Market building reopened on August 26, 1977, the North Market building on August 26, 1978.The central corridor of Quincy Market is the food court, where you can find anything from a bagel to a full Greek dinner, a fruit smoothie to an ice cream sundae. On either side, under the glass canopies, are full-service restaurants as well as pushcarts that sell everything from crafts created by New England artisans to hokey souvenirs. Here you'll find a bar that exactly replicates the set of the TV show Cheers. In the plaza between the South Canopy and the South Market building is an information kiosk. On warm evenings, the tables that spill outdoors from the restaurants and bars fill with people. One constant since the year after the market -- the original 1826 market -- opened is Durgin-Park, a traditional New England restaurant known for its good-naturedly crabby waitresses.Faneuil Hall itself sometimes gets overlooked, but it's well worth a visit. Known as the "Cradle of Liberty" for its role as a venue for inspirational (some might say inflammatory) speech in the years leading to the Revolutionary War, the building opened in 1742 and was expanded using a Charles Bulfinch design in 1805. National Park Service rangers give free 20-minute talks every half-hour from 9am to 5pm in the second-floor auditorium.
The Inn at Harvard
At first glance, the redbrick Inn at Harvard looks almost like a college dorm -- it's adjacent to Harvard Yard, and its Georgian-style architecture would fit nicely on campus. Inside, however, there's no mistaking it for anything other than an elegant hotel, popular with business travelers and university visitors. The elegant guest rooms, which were redecorated in 2002, contain pillow-top beds, either a lounge chair or two armchairs around a table, a work area, and an original painting from the Fogg Art Museum. Some units have dormer windows and window seats. The four-story sky-lit atrium holds the "living room," a huge, well-appointed guest lounge that's suitable for meeting with a visitor if you don't want to conduct business in your room.Facilities: Restaurant (New England); dining privileges at the nearby Harvard Faculty Club; free access to nearby health club; concierge; room service until 10:30pm; laundry service; same-day dry cleaning. 6 rooms for travelers with disabilities are available.
Radisson Hotel Cambridge
This former Howard Johnson hotel is an attractive, modern 16-story tower across the street from the Charles River. It has an indoor swimming pool, and Radisson replaced all the furniture when it took over in 2000. Each room has a picture window, and some have private balconies. Prices vary with the size of the room, the floor, and the view; the panorama of the Boston skyline from higher floors on the river side of the building is worth the extra money. The hotel is near the major college campuses and the Mass. Pike. It's 10 minutes by car from downtown Boston but not near public transit -- leave time for the hotel shuttle.Facilities: 2 restaurants (Japanese, Greek); indoor pool; exercise room; concierge; shuttle to Harvard, Central, and Kendall squares and Massachusetts General Hospital; business center; room service until 10pm; laundry service; same-day dry cleaning. Rooms for travelers with disabilities are available.
The Westin Copley Place Boston
Towering 36 stories above Copley Square, the Westin attracts business travelers, convention-goers, sightseers, and dedicated shoppers. Sky bridges link the hotel to Copley Place and the Prudential Center complex, and Copley Square is across the street from the pedestrian entrance. The spacious guest rooms -- all on the eighth floor or higher -- have traditional oak and mahogany furniture and offer Westin's beloved pillow-top mattresses. All rooms underwent refurbishment in 2000 and 2001. But you might not notice the furnishings at first because you'll be captivated by the best views in town. Any qualms that you might have had about choosing a huge chain hotel will fade as you survey downtown Boston, the airport and harbor, and the Charles River and Cambridge.Facilities: 2 restaurants (a branch of New York's famous Palm steakhouse, and Turner Fisheries, a good choice for seafood); bar; indoor pool; newly refurbished health club and spa; concierge; car-rental desk; airport shuttle; well-equipped business center; shopping arcade; 24-hr. room service; in-room massage; laundry service; dry cleaning; executive-level rooms. 48 guest units for travelers with disabilities adjoin standard units.
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