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Fort Point Channel is a maritime channel separating South Boston from downtown Boston, Massachusetts, feeding into Boston Harbor. The south part of it has been gradually filled in for use by the South Bay rail yard and several highways (specifically the Central Artery and the Southeast Expressway). At its south end, the channel once widened into South Bay (Boston), from which the Roxbury Canal continued southwest where the Massachusetts Avenue Connector is now. The channel is surrounded by the Fort Point neighborhood, which is also named after the same colonial-era fort.

The banks of the channel are still busy with activity. South of Summer Street on the west side of the channel is a large United States Postal Service facility. A large parcel, home to Gillette, lies at the southeast corner of the channel. The back of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston looks over the channel, and another federal building, the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, lies on Fan Pier at the mouth of the channel. One of Boston’s odder attractions, the Hood Milk Bottle, lies on the banks as well, next to Boston Children’s Museum.

In the 1980s The Channel nightclub sat on the Fort Point Channel. It had windows that overlooked the Channel and when one looked out of them on a foggy night it appeared as if you were on a boat. It was located off of a short street on the South Boston side of the Channel called Necco Street. This was a good Boston venue to see local and Punk rock bands.