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West Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bordered by Roslindale and Jamaica Plain to the northeast, the village of Chestnut Hill and the town of Brookline to the north, the city of Newton to the northwest, the towns of Dedham and Needham to the southwest, and Hyde Park to the southeast.
Roslindale has its own branch of the Boston Public Library, the neighborhood is covered by Boston Police District E-5 in West Roxbury, Boston EMS Ambulance 17 is stationed in Roslindale, and the Boston Fire Department has a station on Canterbury Street which houses Ladder 16, Engine 53 & District Chief 12. Roslindale's original Engine Company ...
The later annexations of Brighton and West Roxbury, both in 1874, and that of Hyde Park in 1912, eventually made Brookline into an exclave of Norfolk County. The town has a history of racial discrimination in zoning, which has led to a disproportionately wealthy population and a very low percentage of Black residents, at only 2.5%.
Roxbury is a township in southwestern Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [18] As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 22,950, [9] [10] a decrease of 374 (−1.6%) from the 2010 census count of 23,324, [19] [20] which in turn reflected a decline of 559 (−2.3%) from the 23,883 counted in the 2000 census. [21]
In 1873, West Roxbury residents – most living in Jamaica Plain – voted in favor of annexation to Boston. The Town of West Roxbury had grown from 2,700 residents in 1850 to 9,000 in 1875, [1] and many of the new residents wanted the advantages of the services (street grading, sewer lines) that the City of Boston could provide.
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Lower Berkshire Valley CDP has a total area of 1.03 square miles (2.67 km 2), of which 0.02 square miles (0.05 km 2), or 2.23%, are water. [1] The area is drained by the Rockaway River , which passes just east of the CDP boundary and flows east to the Passaic River at the Essex County border.
The eastern town lines border Greene and Schoharie counties.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 87.6 square miles (226.9 km 2), of which 87.1 square miles (225.6 km 2) is land and 0.50 square miles (1.3 km 2), or 0.56%, is water.