Tag: Brookline
Brookline is a suburban town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston and Newton. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 58,732.
Brookline was known as the hamlet of Muddy River and was considered a part of Boston until the Town of Brookline was independently incorporated in 1705. (The Muddy River was used as the Brookline-Boston border at incorporation.) It is said that the name derives from a farm therein once owned by Judge Samuel Sewall.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Brookline has a total area of 6.8 square miles (17.7 km²), of which, 6.8 square miles (17.6 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.44%) is water.
The northern part of Brookline, roughly north of the D-line tracks, is urban in character—highly walkable and transit rich. The population density of this part of town is nearly 20,000 per square mile, on a par with the densest neighborhoods in Cambridge, Somerville, and Chelsea, and…
