Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts

Davis Square is a neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, located around the intersection of Holland Street, Dover Street, Elm Street, Highland Avenue, and College Avenue. It is located within walking distance of Tufts University and Harvard University. The Davis Square station is one of the stops on the Red Line of the MBTA. The Somerville Community Path runs right through the middle of the square on a former rail line, leading to the popular Minuteman Trail. The cobblestone square now attracts families in the summer who congregate outside the ice-cream parlor, J.P. Licks. The Somerville Arts Council's popular ArtBeat festivaltakes place here every year on the third weekend of July. photo of Davis Sq. ... Settled: 1630 â€“ Incorporated: 1842 Zip Code(s): 02143 â€“ Area Code(s): 617 / 857 Official website: http://www. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ... Tufts University is a private university located in Medford, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. ... Harvard University campus (old map) Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Davis Station is located at the intersection of Holland Street, Elm Street, and College Avenue (Davis Square), in Somerville. ... View of Boston from the Red Line An MBTA Red Line train leaving Charles/MGH station bound for Alewife. ... The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is a a body politic and corporate, and a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1] formed in 1964 to finance and operate most bus, subway, commuter rail and ferry systems in the greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA area. ... The Somerville Community Path is an ambitious project to connect the Minuteman Bikeway and Cambridge Linear Park to the Charles river and downtown Boston. ... The Minuteman Bikeway; is an 11 mile paved, mixed-use recreational Rail Trail and cycle path in suburban Boston, Massachusetts. ...

Davis Square was in 1997 listed in the Utne Reader as one of the fifteen "hippest places to live" in the United States. The extension of the Red Line to Alewife Station via Davis, already a college-oriented neighborhood, brought on a series of rapid changes that are still resented by many longtime Somerville residents. In 2005, The Boston Globe reported the first million dollar condo sale in Davis Square, which represented a major psychological change for a neighborhood known for being budget friendly. The Utne Reader is a periodical founded in 1984 by Eric Utne. ... View of Boston from the Red Line An MBTA Red Line train leaving Charles/MGH station bound for Alewife. ... T sign and top of glass pyramid from roof-level parking deck of Alewife Station, September 2004 Alewife Station, located at the intersection of Alewife Brook Parkway and Cambridgepark Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a local intermodal transportation hub. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ...

Today, Davis Square is a mix of the old and the new. Restaurants, coffee shops, and stores catering to students and young urban professionals coexist with working class diners and tailors that predate Davis Square's trendy period.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Boston Squares
• Davis Square LiveJournal Community
• New Neighborhoods Gaining 1M Cachet
• Davis Square Flickr Group Photo Pool
• Maps and aerial photos Coordinates: 42.39583° -71.12167°
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