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Neighborhood Nine, also known as Peabody or Area 9, is a neighborhood of

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, U.S. It is mostly residential.

History

Much of the

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used to extend into what is now Neighborhood Nine in the 17th century, which used to be a great forest. (The common was later enclosed and made a park in 1828, despite protests from the citizens of nearby Watertown and Arlington.) The neighborhood began to attract wealthy settlers in the

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was established; later, in the 19th century, it further attracted

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. By the 20th century, the neighborhood was almost fully built up. Later on, the neighborhood's clay pits were turned into the city's dumpster, and after that into Danehy Park. Also, some mixed-income apartments were built.

Geography

Neighborhood Nine is bounded by Concord Avenue to the southwest, Massachusetts Avenue to the east, and through an imaginary line passing just short of

Porter Square Porter Square is a neighborhood in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts, located around the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Somerville Avenue, between Harvard and Davis Squares. The Porter Square station serves both the MBTA Re ...

and

Alewife Brook Parkway Alewife Brook Parkway is a short parkway in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It begins at Fresh Pond in Cambridge (linking to Fresh Pond Parkway via Concord Avenue), and heads ...

to the north. Garden St is a long street through the neighborhood; somewhat shorter streets include Sherman St, Raymond St, Linnaean St, and Upland Rd.

Demographics

As of 2023, the neighborhood is home to 12,937 people (up from 11,794 people as of the 2000 census, and 11,126 people as of the 1990 census), making it the city's most populated neighborhood. Of these, 63% are white, 11% are black, 13% are Asian, and 12.1% are "Mixed/Other". Also, 27.7% of them speak a language other than English at home (up from 23% as of the 2000 census). Moreover, as of the 2000 census, 23% of the neighborhood's residents were born abroad, and almost exactly half of them are immigrant families.

Attractions

Notable attractions in Neighborhood Nine include: * the

(close to

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), * the

Graham and Parks School The Graham and Parks School is a public elementary school in Cambridge, MA. Founded in 1981, the school was originally conceived as an "alternative school" aligned with the progressive education movement. It historically emphasized project-based l ...

, * and Danehy Park. There are also a few stores and restaurants in the neighborhood. Elizabeth Warren lives in the neighborhood at 24 Linnaean St, a house which she and her husband Bruce H. Mann had bought back in September 1995. On November 19, 2023, there was a protest calling for a ceasefire in the

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outside her house; it's unknown whether she was inside at the time.

References

External links

* {{Commons category, Neighborhood Nine, Cambridge Neighborhoods in Cambridge, Massachusetts