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Back Bay, MA

Everett, MA

 Everett is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts with a population of around 42,000.

 

The city was named after Edward Everett, who served as U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, Governor of Massachusetts, and United States Secretary of State.   He also served as President of Harvard University.

 

Everett was originally part of Charlestown, and Malden.   The city is now bordered by Malden on the north, Revere on the east, Chelsea on the southeast, Boston and the Mystic River on the south, and Somerville and Medford on the west.   Everett is 4 miles from Boston.

 

The Glendale Park is the city's largest park.   Part of the Revere Beach Parkway listed on the National Register of Historic Places lies in Everett. This is a historic parkway in the suburbs immediately north of Boston.

 

In popular culture, Everett is home to the set of the new ABC pilot, Boston's Finest. The city was also the setting for the 2007 Ben Affleck film, Gone Baby Gone, and, the Kevin James movie, Here Comes the Boom.

Back Bay is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts famous for its rows of Victorian brownstone homes.   These homes are one of the best-preserved examples of 19th-century urban design in the country.

 

A commission was created to regulate exterior changes to Back Bay buildings and safeguard the heritage of the city.   Along with neighboring Beacon Hill, it is one of Boston's two most expensive residential neighborhoods.

 

Back Bay is a fashionable shopping destination, especially the Newbury and Boylston Streets, as well as the Prudential Center and Copley Place malls.   Numerous architecturally significant buildings and important cultural institutions such as the Boston Public Library;  Boston's tallest office buildings like the Hynes Convention Center;  and numerous major hotels are in this neighborhood.

 

Back Bay is served by the Green Line's "Arlington, Copley, Hynes Convention Center, and Prudential" stations, and the Orange Line's Back Bay station.

 

Before its transformation into buildable land, Back Bay was literally - a bay.   This land reclamation project more than doubled the size of the original Shawmut Peninsula.

 

Danvers is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts with a population of around 26,000.

 

It is located 20 miles north of Downtown Boston, halfway between Boston and the New Hampshire State border.

 

Both the Interstate 95 and Massachusetts Route 128 pass through the town.   U.S. Route 1 also passes through town, as well as Interstate 95 - in the north end of town.   The main highways are crossed by Route 35, Route 62 and Route 114, with Routes 35 and 62 intersecting north of the town.

 

Originally known as Salem Village, the town is known for the Salem witch trials of 1692.   One of its residents, Rebecca Nurse was convicted in a trial for witchcraft.   The Rebecca Nurse Homestead is still standing in Danvers and it can be visited as a historical landmark.

 

In 1855, the southern portion of Danvers broke away to become the town of South Danvers, which was later renamed Peabody.

 

In 2006, a major chemical explosion occurred at a Danvers facility housing industrial-paint products. The blast shook and knocked homes off their foundations, damaging buildings up to half a mile away.

 

 

Brighton is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts and located in the northwest corner of the city.

 

It is connected to the rest of the city by the Allston neighborhood and is surrounded by Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, and Brookline.   It has a population of around 43,000.   Brighton is accessible via the "B" Branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA) Green Line light rail service, which has 11 stops along Commonwealth Avenue in Brighton. Cleveland Circle on the "C" Branch is located in the southern tip of Brighton, and the "D" Branch is nearby.

 

Forty-seven percent of the population of Brighton drive alone to work and 36% use mass transit, compared with 71% and 2% for the United States as a whole.

 

MassDOT recently announced a plan to build a commuter rail station at Everett Street in Brighton.   The new station, Boston Landing, will be served by the Framingham/Worcester Line.

 

Statistics show that thirty-three percent of Brighton residents are graduates of a four-year college course.  The median home price in this neighborhood is $495,000 compared with $217,200 for the country as a whole, and the cost of living is 30% higher than the national average. Brighton has a comparatively older housing stock. The median home age is 58 years and 42% of homes were built before 1939.

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