What is your favorite Boston neighborhood?

[shawmut]

This question also includes Cambridge and Brookline.




What's your favorite neighborhood? :)

[XNASA]

1. Is Newberry Street considered Back Bay?

:shrug:

[shawmut]

2. yup, that's Back Bay

[Rockholm]

6. Um, it's Newbury.

[intheflow]

3. Does Watertown count?

If so, Watertown Square. In particular, Demos (is that still there?)and the library.

In Boston proper, it'd have to be either Charles St./Beacon Hill (I went to Emerson and love the Commons) or Jamaica Plains (gotta love that arboretum!).

[runamokcomedy]

4. BEANTOWN HOODS

EMERSON COLLEGE freakin RULES!
Never lived in Charlesgate, but I know all the ghost stories!
For the record, I'll take the North End, especially on a late spring Sunday Morning...windows open, smelling the baked goods at Bovas down the street!

[intheflow]

15. Welcom to DU, runamokcomedy.

You're killin' me with the "EMERSON COLLEGE freakin RULES!" :hi:

[Kat45]

12. Yup, Demos is still there and it's still delicious.

Love that Greek food. :9

[midnight armadillo]

5. Huntington Ave

After living there pretty much full time (except one summer) as an NU student, the area still feels like home. Ahh, Cappy's Pizza!

[BostonBell]

7. Most definitely

the North End!

[newyawker99]

29. Hi BostonBell!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[YankeyMCC]

8. North End

I know it might seem sterotypical but I was just on Hancock St last Sat night for dinner and I just have a fantastic time every time we go. Nothing like a little grappa and espresso after dinner.

And this is a bit sacreligous since my Father grew up on O St and my mother spent a lot of time in Southie and with friends from Southie growing up in Hyde Park. :)

[StopTheMorans]

9. LA (a.k.a. Lower Allston)

Defend Allston; attack Harvard Square!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

10. That neighborhood's a DUMP

signed,

your friend from the good side of the river. ;-)

[StopTheMorans]

17. pretentious Cantabridgian crap;

a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing:) :hi:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

11. I like the North End and the South End

the North End is like a little taste of Europe, and it's a wonderful historic neighborhood. The SOuth End has some of the most beautiful architecture in Boston.

Cambridge is my hometown and has some great neighborhoods. Harvard, Porter and Inman Squares are my faves. SOme of the most beautiful houses are in West Cambridge and on Avon Hill (near Porter Sq.). The best part about Cambridge is its accessibility, smallness, and variety of culture, restaurants, and people.

[Kat45]

13. North End.

I especially love going down there for the festas in the summer.

[jlee1933]

14. Southie

cuz im originally from there. They have great stoops

[MADem]

28. I used to hang there a lot

...back when I lived two blocks from Fenway Park. Used to go up on the roof of my building on game days and see a sliver of grass, listen to the crowd and put the game on radio.

A lot of the Italian speakers are leaving, though, or dying off and leaving the kids who didn't learn the mother tongue. You can still go into the odd ristorante and find yourself a waiter from Naples, but it is getting less common than it used to be. My Italian is getting very rusty as a consequence....! Plus, I don't get there as often as I used to back in the day.

[Cobalt Violet]

16. Fort Point

[ExclamationPoint]

18. FENWAY

:) 'nuff said.

Oh, and Harvard is nice also. All that brick. The theatre district is great, especially the wang! (and the colonial)

[MADem]

24. I lived there years ago! n/t

[DaveinMD]

19. I love the North End

Whenever I visit I make sure to get some good italian food there. That Pastry shop is amazing.

[Killarney]

20. Depends on for what. :)

For food... North End.
For good times... Harvard Sq... that was the best place to go when I was in college... there were a few bars there that always let us in underage. ;)

[mom cat]

21. Jamaica Plain, Jamaica Plain, Jamaica Plain, Jamaica Plain

:toast::headbang::hippie::bounce::bounce::bounce::smoke::smoke::party::smoke::smoke::bounce::bounce::bounce::hippie::toast::headbang::kick:

[stepnw1f]

25. JP 's Where I Grew Up

Will always love JP. Very diverse.

[kalibex]

30. Yup, Yup!! n/t

:bounce:

[curse10]

22. South End

I love it here. Fuck Cambridge! That's all the way across the river!! :P

[Lexingtonian]

23. North End

yeah, Salem Street basically. Back when the butcher still hung fresh lamb or sheep or pig meat on that hook, and the restaurants served more than pasta dishes. Bova's remains, and a few of the barber shops on the side streets, and the graveyard on top of the hill.

I used to live up the street from Inman Square back in the day when 1369 Coffeehouse was three people running it and mostly squeaky and spraypainted plywood. Spent many a cold Saturday morning or Sunday afternoon there with a big mug looking out at gray clouds and aged, faded brick buildings- and my readings and writings. Now the square's all different- all gorgeous young Portuguese girls, or so it seems...sigh....

[really-looney]

26. North Cambridge

Home of Matignon High School

[Lenape85]

27. Beacon Hill

[graywarrior]

31. Southie coz I have the same mentality

but I love Harvard Square and the South End. Used to work for Blue Trolley and give tours so I got to see a lot of Boston. Boston is the best place in the world.

[woosh]

32. Davis Square

I'd live there if it weren't for the somerville schools.