Brookline Real Estate

Brookline is a town, not a Boston neighborhood, though Boston wraps around most of it. Beacon Street, laid out as a broad boulevard with streetcar tracks down the middle, ties the northern half together, and the commercial districts of Coolidge Corner and Washington Square grew up at its stops. Corey Hill rises just north of Beacon Street; to the south the land climbs into Fisher Hill and Pill Hill, then opens into the larger lots of Chestnut Hill and South Brookline.

Much of the town's daily rhythm happens on foot. Harvard Street at Coolidge Corner has the Coolidge Corner Theatre and a long run of shops; Brookline Village has Washington Street's storefronts and the Route 9 crossing. The Riverway and Olmsted Park, part of the Emerald Necklace, trace the eastern edge, and Larz Anderson Park and the Brookline Reservoir offer room to roam farther south. The landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted lived and worked at Fairsted, now a National Historic Site on Warren Street.

Green Line riders should know that the MBTA is rebuilding C branch stations on Beacon Street for accessibility, with Kent Street slated to close and Fairbanks Street and Brandon Hall combined into one stop, so check the current station map when judging a commute.