We are coming down to the end of the city of Boston, now that we've finished Back Bay and Longwood! These northwestern neighborhoods are a gradient from the more dense urban and historical character of Back Bay to the more green, suburban Longwood to the west with hospitals and colleges. You can click on any of the points to visit that store's post.
Coming Up Next
Up next, it's actually time to move outside of the city of Boston and into the neighboring town of Brookline! As you can see on the map above, the town is surrounded on three sides by Boston, but borders the city of Newton on the west. The main part of town is Coolidge Corner, at the intersection of Beacon and Harvard Streets (it's just west of the Longwood area, and about a mile west of the Star Market we saw in Longwood). Most of what we'll see is within a few blocks of Coolidge Corner, although I've also photographed two stores a bit farther away in either direction on Beacon Street. But we'll pass through Brookline roughly from northeast to southwest, then move along to the suburbs to the west before returning to Boston to see Brighton and Allson. Brookline is a pleasant, green, and low-rise town with relatively little urban feeling (although, with a population around 62,000, it's not exactly a small town). It's also home to large Jewish and Eastern European communities, and we'll see some stores that reflect those populations. Brookline also has a growing Asian community, so we'll see that reflected in the grocers too. We're going to begin on the eastern edge of town with a store that recently closed on Monday, along with the new grocer that replaced it!
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