Two Boston Neighborhoods and the Wrecking Ball: The Lost West End and the North End That Survived
Walk the streets of Boston’s North End today and you are experiencing one of the oldest continuously inhabited neighborhoods in America. Narrow brick streets wind between 4- and 5-story apartment buildings. Church steeples rise above rooflines. Corner shops occupy ground-floor storefronts that have held businesses for a century or more. It is dense, human-scaled, and…