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...group of Boston residents has filed a referendum that calls for the sale of portions of the Arnold Aboretum, a 265-acre park located in Jamaica Plain and affiliated with Harvard University...
...diaries begin in 1941, when Cow ard was 41, and end in 1969, three years before he died of a heart attack at Firefly, his beloved home in Jamaica. There are long, flat passages, and many entries are no more interesting than last year's society column. But these stretches are as much a part of a life, even a life like Coward's, as the glittering ones, and the diaries should be read whole or not at all. Coward was not a butterfly but a worker bee. During his 73 years, he turned out more than...
...convinced it's "a good thing that richer, professional people are moving in, buying condos. Most neighborhoods are whipped right now." To Mayor White, the implication that gentrification could have ill side-effects is outrageous; after Time magazine ran a picture of a burned-out office building "in gentrifying Jamaica plain" he called the photo "a disgrace...
...remember is that when "richer, professional people" move into Jamaica Plain or the South End, someone else has to leave. And though White may see South Boston and Mattapan as "whipped neighborhoods," at least they've been home for people who couldn't afford Back Bay or the suburbs...
...matter of gentrification also has implications for Boston's racial integration problems. Usually, integration in housing occurs after some minority families move into a previously all-white neighborhood; the whites often then start to flee the area. But in Jamaica Plain, for instance, it's been the white professionals who are moving in, pushing minority residents out. So while that area is well-integrated on paper (roughly) half white, half Black or Hispanic), the rents that have risen as much as 70 percent in three years have pushed the minorities, Blacks in particular, away from the center of the Jamaica...