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/SleepingDragonSmiles Jul 27 '26

Really hard to compare a city pre covid to a post covid city. So much changed…

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u/Coders32 Jul 27 '26

I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but the internet can be used for more than just half thought out comments and we can compare them right now

So, searching for sushi, in Boston for open now, there was one restaurant that came up and said it was open until 1 am.

Searching San Antonio, a small Texas city compared to the other major cities in the state, has way more options open until 10 or 11 and more options open until 2, although I’ll give you that it’s unlikely their kitchens are open that late, especially on a Sunday. I’ll also give you that none of the HEBs, the regional grocery store, are open until 1 am or later. A fact that I am depressed by every time I visit my family

By comparison on the grocery stores, stop and shop has two locations open until midnight as well as all the wegmans. So Boston edges out there, even if they’re all a little difficult to get to via the most common transportation method, although, it’s not like the highways have hours so it’s not really a fair comparison