Congregation of the Sons of Israel and David Cemetery-gates Providence

Reservoir is a neighborhood in southwest

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. It is bounded to the north and east by the Amtrak

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railroad tracks, and to the west and south by the municipal boundary with Cranston. The population of the neighborhood, as of 2000, was 2,963.

Mashapaug Pond Mashapaug Pond is the largest freshwater pond in the city of Providence, Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island. Over the past four hundred years, Mashapaug Pond has been a site of indigenous settlement and displacement, deforestation and agric ...

lies entirely within the Reservoir neighborhood. The

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made its home on the pond in the area. The neighborhood is 40.5%

Non-Hispanic White Non-Hispanic Whites, also referred to as White Anglo Americans or Non-Latino Whites, are White Americans who are classified by the United States census as "White" and not of Hispanic or Latino origin. According to annual estimates from the Unit ...

, 15.4% Asian or Pacific Islander, 16.6% African-American, and 22.6% Hispanic. The median household income is $39,769, and the median family income is $41,202. 10.4% of families live below the poverty line.

Government

At the municipal level, all of Reservoir is within Ward 8. James Taylor, a Democrat, represents Ward 8 in the Providence City Council. He was first elected in 2017.

References

Neighborhoods in Providence, Rhode Island {{ProvidenceRI-stub