Known as "The Walking City," Boston, Massachusetts is the cultural and economic hub of the six-state New England region with its world-class universities, the famed Red Sox, and vibrant downtown retail districts around Faneuil Hall and Newbury Street in the Back Bay. As the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once stated, "The town of Boston has a history...It is not an accident, not a windmill, or a railroad station, or a crossroads town, but a seat of humanity, of men of principle, obeying sentiment and marching to it..."