Post by Admin on Nov 21, 2010 21:19:57 GMT -5
North End/East Boston
East Boston is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, with approximately 40,000 residents. The community was created by connecting several islands using landfill and was annexed by Boston in 1836. East Boston is separated from the rest of the city by Boston Harbor and bordered by Winthrop, Revere, and the Chelsea Creek. Directly west of East Boston across Boston Harbor is the North End and Boston's Financial District. The neighborhood has long provided a foothold for the latest wave of immigrants, with Irish, Russian Jews and then Italians alternating as the predominant group. Today immigrants from Colombia, Brazil and elsewhere in South America have made East Boston one of the centers of Latino culture in New England.
East Boston, often truncated to "Eastie" (like the better-known "Southie"), is now predominantly Hispanic, though the once-sizeable Italian population still resides in areas such as Orient Heights. Though East Boston has a spectacular view of the downtown skyline, the community's rents and property values have increased more slowly than the extraordinary growth seen in the rest of the metro-Boston region during the late 1990s and early 21st century. This slower growth can be attributed to factors such as: the isolated nature of the neighborhood, difficulties of real estate development along the waterfront and the negative attitude towards Logan Airport that local East Boston residents have perpetuated.
For many years, East Boston’s connections to Boston, which included the Sumner (westbound) and Callahan (eastbound) tunnels and the Tobin Bridge by way of Chelsea, were overcrowded. Persons driving to the Airport from the west or south would have to use one of these two access points, causing constant traffic jams. The building of the Ted Williams Tunnel, which extends the Massachusetts Turnpike ("Mass Pike"/I-90) to the airport, has alleviated much of this traffic problem. Boston has also supplied residents with special transponders that allow them to pay reduced tolls on the Sumner and Ted Williams tunnels. Local government has hindered private investment in the waterfront for many years. Recently this has changed and the Boston Redevelopment Authority has begun implementing the East Boston Municipal Harbor Plan. This development is created in order to reconnect East Boston with its waterfront through condominiums, restaurants and shops.
Direct Connections
None
Points of Intrest
Logan International Airport
Constitution Beach
Piers Park
Community gardens
East Boston is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, with approximately 40,000 residents. The community was created by connecting several islands using landfill and was annexed by Boston in 1836. East Boston is separated from the rest of the city by Boston Harbor and bordered by Winthrop, Revere, and the Chelsea Creek. Directly west of East Boston across Boston Harbor is the North End and Boston's Financial District. The neighborhood has long provided a foothold for the latest wave of immigrants, with Irish, Russian Jews and then Italians alternating as the predominant group. Today immigrants from Colombia, Brazil and elsewhere in South America have made East Boston one of the centers of Latino culture in New England.
East Boston, often truncated to "Eastie" (like the better-known "Southie"), is now predominantly Hispanic, though the once-sizeable Italian population still resides in areas such as Orient Heights. Though East Boston has a spectacular view of the downtown skyline, the community's rents and property values have increased more slowly than the extraordinary growth seen in the rest of the metro-Boston region during the late 1990s and early 21st century. This slower growth can be attributed to factors such as: the isolated nature of the neighborhood, difficulties of real estate development along the waterfront and the negative attitude towards Logan Airport that local East Boston residents have perpetuated.
For many years, East Boston’s connections to Boston, which included the Sumner (westbound) and Callahan (eastbound) tunnels and the Tobin Bridge by way of Chelsea, were overcrowded. Persons driving to the Airport from the west or south would have to use one of these two access points, causing constant traffic jams. The building of the Ted Williams Tunnel, which extends the Massachusetts Turnpike ("Mass Pike"/I-90) to the airport, has alleviated much of this traffic problem. Boston has also supplied residents with special transponders that allow them to pay reduced tolls on the Sumner and Ted Williams tunnels. Local government has hindered private investment in the waterfront for many years. Recently this has changed and the Boston Redevelopment Authority has begun implementing the East Boston Municipal Harbor Plan. This development is created in order to reconnect East Boston with its waterfront through condominiums, restaurants and shops.
Direct Connections
None
Points of Intrest
Logan International Airport
Constitution Beach
Piers Park
Community gardens