Otherwise, the Harbour Route continues along Atlantic Avenue as it merges with the Rose Kennedy Greenway, the centrepiece of Boston's newly revitalised waterfront.

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It crossed the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, a park named for the senator's mother and one-time family matriarch, and passed the Massachusetts State House and the home that John Kennedy lived in when he first ran for Congress in 1946.

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Now you can stroll the immaculate Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, a mile-long promenade dotted with fountains, public art and parks that stretches from South Station to near the base of the stylish Leonard P.

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