Jamaica Plain
Lamartine Street runs alongside the Orange Line between Green Street and Stony Brook. Close enough to the T to be lazy about it, far enough from downtown that mornings are quiet.
Centre Street is the spine of the neighborhood and most of an evening can be spent on it. Tonino for Italian, Vee Vee for a proper sit-down dinner, Tres Gatos which is a tapas bar behind a record and book shop, and JP Seafood Cafe at 730 Centre Street for Japanese.
For a drink rather than a meal: Brendan Behan and the Galway House are the old guard, Canary Square is the bigger room with the long beer list, and the Midway Cafe is the dive with live music most nights of the week.
This was a brewing neighborhood long before it was a residential one, and two of them are still here. The Samuel Adams Boston Brewery on Germania Street runs tours, a taproom and a beer garden, and it is a short walk from the building. Turtle Swamp Brewing is the smaller taproom a few streets over.
A mile and a half loop around the water, part of the Emerald Necklace. Sailing in summer, and the walk everyone here defaults to.
Two hundred and eighty acres of Harvard’s tree collection at the southern end of the neighborhood. Open to the public, free, and enormous.
A linear park and bike path laid over the Orange Line, running from Forest Hills all the way to Back Bay.
Green Street is the nearest stop and Stony Brook is the next one down, so if one is closed you walk to the other. Both are a short walk from the front door.
The Southwest Corridor path runs beside the line the whole way into the city, which makes the bike commute genuinely pleasant rather than merely possible. For the Longwood Medical Area most people ride to Ruggles and walk or take a shuttle across.
| Stony Brook | 1 stop |
| Jackson Square | 2 stops |
| Roxbury Crossing | 3 stops |
| Ruggles (Northeastern) | 4 stops |
| Massachusetts Ave | 5 stops |
| Back Bay | 6 stops |
| Tufts Medical Center | 7 stops |
| Downtown Crossing | 9 stops |
| North Station | 12 stops |
Stop counts are exact. Check the MBTA for live times.
Whole Foods and Stop & Shop are both close, and the markets around Hyde Square and Egleston Square cover the rest. There is a branch library on Sedgwick Street, and the Forest Hills end of the neighborhood has the bigger shops if you need them.
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