Longwood (MBTA station)
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Longwood Station is a stop on the D branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, often referred to as the MBTA or simply The T, is the public operator of most bus, subway, commuter rail and ferry systems in the greater Boston, Massachusetts, area. Officially a "body politic and corporate, and a political subdivision" of the...

 (MBTA)'s Green Line
Green Line (MBTA)
The Green Line is a streetcar system run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in the Boston, Massachusetts area of the United States. It is the oldest line of Boston's subway, which is known locally as the 'T'. The Green Line runs underground downtown and on the surface in outlying...

. It is located on Chapel Street in Brookline
Brookline, Massachusetts
Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston and Newton. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 58,732.-Etymology:...

, close to its intersection with Longwood Avenue, Boston and is the most convenient stop for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts is a major flagship teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital and New England Deaconess Hospital...

 and Temple Israel
Temple Israel (Boston, Massachusetts)
Temple Israel is a Reform synagogue in Boston.-History:Temple Israel, originally known as Adath Israel, was founded in 1854 when Jews of German ancestry seceded from Ohabei Shalom, then the sole synagogue in Boston, because so many Polish Jews had joined the congregation. The congregation...

.

Note that this station should not be confused with the similarly named Longwood Medical Area
Longwood Medical Area (MBTA station)
Longwood Medical Area is a stop on the E branch of the MBTA's Green Line in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, MA. 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...

 station on the E branch of the Green Line. That station is located on Huntington Avenue
Huntington Avenue (Boston)
Huntington Avenue is a secondary thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts beginning at Copley Square, and continuing west through the Back Bay, Fenway, Longwood, and Mission Hill neighborhoods...

 at the opposite end of the Longwood Medical and Academic Area
Longwood Medical and Academic Area
The Longwood Medical and Academic Area is a medical campus in Boston....

, a cluster of academic and medical facilities that lie along Longwood Avenue.

Accessibility

Both sides of the station platform are currently wheelchair accessible from Chapel Street, but not from Riverway Park. Current construction on the station, including adding wheelchair accessibility to and from Riverway Park, is scheduled to be completed in Spring 2009.

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