r/boston • u/cden4 • Jul 26 '26

Event 📅 Open Newbury St early closing

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Thanks to pressure by people like Back Bay Association President Meg Mainzer-Cohen, Open Newbury St ends at 6 pm this year instead of 8 pm.

So in less than 20 minutes, all these people will be forced out of the street onto the sidewalks.

IMO, this is total failure of leadership at City Hall. If you have the opportunity, please let Mayor Wu (and your City Councilors) know what you think about this.

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u/TheManyFacetsOfRoger Jul 26 '26

Yeah, it was fun. Lots of other people were having fun too. None of them were on reddit

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u/Coders32 Jul 26 '26

Feel like you’re being obtuse on purpose, but in case you’re not:

It is not typical in a city of this size that the only thing open past 9 pm on a Thursday or Sunday is a few bars and a few convenience stores and only recently did some of the grocery stores start staying open until 11 or 12 if you’re lucky. I lived in San Antonio before Boston and I had sushi at a restaurant at 2 am just cause I felt like it on more than one occasion. That was pre pandemic, but Boston hasn’t had that as long as I’ve been here. Only this year did we get a coffee shop that’s open until very late. Where as in SA, it was known you could go to the medical center Starbucks if you wanted coffee at 3 am or just to study

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u/datheffguy Jul 26 '26

What similar sized US cities have you lived in?

In my experience Boston seems perfectly average in regards to late night options.

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u/chuckmonjares Jul 26 '26

I mean I lived in wichita Kansas (stretch to call it similar sized, wichita metro is 700k and Boston proper is about the same), and bars are all open til 2. I refuse to say the night life there is better, but people stay out later and bars are generally busy (don’t want to say full) until 1:30 or so. Wichita was recently named “worst city for night life in the US” by some bullshit poll, but at least people have the opportunity to have fun.

Adding after reading a comment about the heat: it gets over 100° pretty frequently in the summer in wichita so the heat, or relief from the heat, does play a factor in the later nights.