About Brookline
Brookline /ˈbrʊkˌlaɪn/ is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, in the United States, and is a part of Greater Boston. Brookline borders six of Boston‘s neighborhoods: Brighton, Allston, Fenway–Kenmore, Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain, and West Roxbury. The city of Newton lies to the west of Brookline.
At the 2010 census, the population of the town was 58,732. Brookline was first settled in 1638 as a hamlet in Boston, but was incorporated as a separate town in 1705.
Brookline is especially notable as the birthplace and hometown of John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States.
Neighborhoods
There are many neighborhood associations, some of which overlap.[7][8]
The neighborhoods, squares, & notable areas of Brookline include:
- Aspinwall Hill
- Beaconsfield
- Brookline Hills
- Brookline Village
- Buttonwood Village
- Brookline High School, Near Pierce District
- Chestnut Hill, which also extends into Newton and the Boston neighborhoods of West Roxbury and Brighton
- Cleveland Circle, which also extends into Brighton and up towards Boston College
- Coolidge Corner
- Corey Farm
- Corey Hill
- Cottage Farm
- Fisher Hill
- JFK Crossing
- Larz Anderson Park, up next to Moss Hill, part of Jamaica Plain, MA
- Longwood (across the Muddy River from the Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston)
- North Brookline
- Pill Hill (also known as “High Street Hill”)
- The Point (originally “Whiskey Point”)
- Putterham Circle (South Brookline)
- The Runkle District
- South Brookline (“Sobro”)
- Saint Mary
- The Heights (just west of Washington Square)
- Washington Square