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Dismembering Roxbury
By adamg on Wed, 01/17/2007 - 8:03am
Somehow, I missed the Sunday Globe's report from the latest front in the gentrification wars: An entire paean to development on "the other side" of Massachusetts Avenue that only mentions the dreaded R word once, and then in passing.
... It used to be that Massachusetts Avenue acted as a dividing line. But now developers are breaching the bulwark, chasing opportunities in the neighborhood's cheaper -- and more rundown -- real estate, laying foundations for upscale projects in the direction of nearby Dudley Square. ...
Oh, yeah, Dudley Square. The heart of the West South End.
Thankfully, for those of us too busy with just Parade and the comics (oh and City Weekly, of course!) - or for people just parachuting in from Mars, the Weekly Dig is here to dissect the coverage:
... Look what a few $900,000 condos can do to a neighborhood's name - and history! ... We can't wait until somebody decides it's time to rebrand Dudley as D-Square.
Free tagging:
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Neighborhoods
There are actually some entertaining names to be had by combining neighborhoods. When I lived in Lower Mills, Dorchester, which is on the Mattapan border, MY WIFE and I sometimes referred to it as:
DorMat (Dorchester, Mattapan)
(could also be "Matador" - just thought of that one now.)
furniture rental
from the Glob article:
Excuse me, but isn't this right next to Northeastern University? Which is full of students who might want to rent furniture?
Battle to the death!
Oh, wouldn't you pay to see a title round between the Northeastern kids and the South End yups?