Tufts Medical Center (formerly New England Medical Center) is a rapid transit station located along Boston's Orange Line subway and Silver Line bus rapid transit system.
It is named for Tufts Medical Center and is built under a wing of the facility that crosses over Washington Street in downtown Boston between Kneeland Street in Chinatown and the Massachusetts Turnpike.
It was built during the late 1960s during what were to be the early stages of the abandoned Interstate 695 project, in anticipation of the future relocation of the Washington Street Elevated, but was not put into service until 1987. It was originally named New England Medical Center, but was renamed in early 2010 after New England Medical Center changed its name to Tufts Medical Center.
Opened on May 4th. 1987 (Orange Line) & July 30th.2002 (Silver Line) and is Handicapped Accessible.
The modern artwork displayed beside each of the two escalators to the train platforms was installed circa 1990 and consists of painted aluminum shapes that are the result of what the artist, Richard Gubernick, called "high-class doodling". According to Gubernick, who also has artwork displayed in LaSalle Station in Buffalo, New York, reports: "A lot of people ask me, does it move? Does it move? well, it looks like it does, but it doesn't....If you move it, you bought it."
October 8, 2018