Longwood Medical Area (MBTA station)

LONGWOOD MEDICAL AREA
Longwood Medical Area station in September 2012
Location	Huntington Avenue at Longwood Avenue Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°20′09″N 71°06′00″W / 42.33595°N 71.10002°W / 42.33595; -71.10002Coordinates: 42°20′09″N 71°06′00″W / 42.33595°N 71.10002°W / 42.33595; -71.10002
Owned by	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Line(s)	Green Line "E" Branch
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	MBTA Bus: CT2, 39
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
History
Rebuilt	2001-2003
Traffic
Passengers (2011)	3,813 (daily average boardings)
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Brigham Circle toward Heath Street Green Line "E" Branch Museum of Fine Arts toward Lechmere

Longwood Medical Area is a light rail stop on the MBTA Green Line "E" Branch, located in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the named for the adjacent Longwood Medical Area, which is the home of Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. (Brigham Circle, which is one stop further outbound, is actually closer to most of the buildings of Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health.)

Colleges located near the stop include Wentworth Institute of Technology, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). It is also the closest Green Line stop to Boston Latin School.

The station was renamed from Longwood-Hospitals to Longwood Medical Area in the 1980s. The similarly named Longwood station on the D branch of the Green Line is located across the Riverway at the opposite end of the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, a cluster of academic and medical facilities that lie along Longwood Avenue.