Claim · the grey record
Downtown — called “Downtown Crossing”
An attested claim that Downtown is called “Downtown Crossing”. The lived name of the retail core within the city's Downtown boundary. Attested by the English Wikipedia article on Downtown Boston. The archive records the attestation; it does not rule on it.
Downtown is called Downtown Crossing
This is an attestation. The archive records who asserts it, since when, and on what evidence. It does not rule on whether it is true.
- Subject
- Downtown
- Predicate
vernacular_name- Attested by
- English Wikipedia
- Attestor kind
- reference work
- Attested since, as stated
- as at the date of retrieval
- Attestation strength
- attested — a count of independent attestations, never a truth value
- Variant note
- The lived name of the retail core within the city's Downtown boundary.
Evidence
English Wikipedia, “Downtown Boston”, retrieved 2 September 2026
The four MBTA subway lines converge in the downtown area at the Downtown Crossing, Park Street, Government Center, and State stations.
· source
Related records
- about — Downtown
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:claim:downtown-vernacular-name-downtown-crossing
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/claim/downtown-vernacular-name-downtown-crossing
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/claim/downtown-vernacular-name-downtown-crossing.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- English Wikipedia — source of record
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (open)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- Downtown_Boston
- Attribution
- Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rights as stated
- Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the plain-text extract of the attesting article from the MediaWiki API | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | verify | searched the article text for the name at a word boundary; a candidate the source did not contain was refused and the refusal recorded | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 3 | quote | took the first sentence containing the name, unaltered, as the evidence for this claim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |