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Mattapan isn't great, and has a high incidence of crime compared to other neighborhoods. Southwest Mattapan, practically in Hyde Park, is one of the better parts, probably. The best part of Mattapan is likely in the southeast corner over by Dorchester Lower Mills. Avoid the area at Blue Hill Ave & Morton St as best you can.
Mattapan is a little bit out the way, and you are actually closer/easier commute to downtown Boston living somewhere like Everett, Medford, Malden, or Somerville. It's a low income primarily black neighborhood. It is the most disadvantaged neighborhood in Boston, and thus has the problems associated with that.
Mattapan Square, like Ruggles, Dudley & Ashmont, is a transit hub. you've got a whole slew of bus options , main streets to roslindale (Cummins), Dudley (Blue), HydePark (River), Ashmont/Codman (Babson->Norfolk) an easy 3 minute bike down River (Boston side) or Eliot (milton side) of the neponset to a rail-trail/coastal bikeway that stretches ...
How is it like living in Mattapan. Moving 🚚. Trying to rent somewhere and found one that's a bit affordable and came across Morton Street area. Can anyone inform how this area is? 1.
“Greater Mattapan didn’t get to where it is overnight,” said Fatima Ali-Salaam, chair of the Greater Mattapan Neighborhood Council. “It’s a buildup of decades of neglect.” The report outlines how to revitalize Mattapan Square, which many residents lament as a shell of its heyday decades ago.
Craft & Cru - A high end wine store with a really nice and knowledgeable staff of two. Also stocked with great hard-to-find liquor and beer and an interesting array of tinned fish and high end candy bars. Mattapan. Right Taste - Grimy little takeout spot with delicious Jamaican beef patties available for a low price.
The years were 1966- 1968 from Fields Corner to Ashmont then the trolley to Mattapan and a bus or walk down Blue Hill Ave to the Solomon Lewenburg Jr. High. Always a stop for coffee and meet friends and learn how to smoke cigarettes at the deli. Now a retired grandfather that appreciates getting overcome with memories of my early years
Nope, but fyi every road test in the city hits you with the "take your first AVAILABLE LEFT" move right when you're in front of a one way road, to see if you'll go down it. r/massachusetts. Join. Massachusetts. A free community for all things Massachusetts.
I’m new to the area and will be using the Mattapan trolley as part of my commute. Online I see that there is a $2.40 fair to take it. Then I was told by my barber that it is free.
Lower Mills - Basically Dot ave is the border between Milton, Dorchester and Mattapan. The ambiance of that part of Dorchester and Milton extends into Mattapan for a couple of blocks. Technically the restaurants on the west side of Dot Ave are Mattapan and the East side are dorchester, and the neighborhood line is in the middle of the street.