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Directions to NRIMS

National Resource for Imaging Mass Spectrometry
Partners Research Facility
65 Landsdowne Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

Directions (from Logan airport) via subway and walking:

1. Take the bus from the terminal to the airport Blue Line subway ('T') station.
2. Take the inbound train, destination Bowdoin, to Government Center (see subway map).
3. Change to the Green Line toward Park Street. Take the train one stop to Park Street station. (There are several Green Line trains. Take any train as long as you are on the platform going toward Park Street. Don't get on a train going to Lechmere.)
4. At Park Street change to the Red Line toward Alewife.
5. Take train three stops to Central Square.
6. When you exit the train and come out onto the street you will be on Mass. Ave. and Prospect St. Walk in the opposite direction you were traveling on the train, back toward Boston (see see Central Square map).
7. You will need to cross over to the other side of Mass. Ave. at some point in the next three blocks.
8. There will be a fire station on the right and Main St. on the left. Keep walking. (Sidney Street is to your right. The Hotel @ MIT is one block down Sidney Street on the left.)
9. Take a right onto Landsdowne St. (across from the Cambridge Bicycle Shop).
10. Our building is located about 2 and half blocks down this road on the right. The building entrance is perpendicular to Landsdowne Street.

Directions (from Logan airport) via car:

1. Take the Sumner Tunnel to Boston (see map).
2. At the end of the tunnel take 93 North.
3. Take 2nd exit Cambridge/Storrow Drive West.
4. Take Mass. Ave. exit off Storrow Drive. Exit is on the left.
5. At the top of the ramp, turn right onto Mass. Ave. and go over the Charles River into Cambridge.
6. Go through 4 sets of traffic lights.
7. Landsdowne Street is the first left after the last set of lights.
8. Just past Landsdowne St. on the left there will be signs for parking in the Star Market parking garage (55 Franklin Street). You may also park in the garage at 80 Landsdowne Street (across from our building). Then follow above directions (#9,10) to our lab.

Partners Healthcare Shuttles

There are shuttle buses to 65 Landsdowne from Massachusetts General Hospital (Jackson Building Entrance) and Brigham and Women's Hospital (corner of Binney and Francis Streets) that depart every half hour (7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, etc.). Drop-off is by the main entrance to 65 Landsdowne St.

Local Hotel Information

Hotel @ MIT
20 Sidney Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617 577 0200
Fax: 617 551 0444
http://www.hotelatmit.com/

The Hotel @ MIT is located on the corner of Green Street and Sidney Street one block from Massachusetts Ave. and less than two blocks from our building. Sidney Street runs parallel to Landsdowne Street, one block to the northwest (see Central Square map).

Marriott Hotel Cambridge
Kendall Square
2 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: 617 494 6600
Fax: 617 494 0036
http://www.marriott.com/dpp/PropertyPage.asp?MarshaCode=BOSCB

The Marriott Hotel Cambridge is located next to the Kendall Square subway stop on the red line, one subway stop from Central Square. It is also possible to walk to our lab from the Hotel in about 15 minutes.

Updated: June 20 2008