One of Boston’s smallest neighborhoods, an ethnic enclave with a rich history in the city’s urban core, is changing. The effects of years-long gentrification are roiling the neighborhood.
The city won a federal grant to study a new park over the Mass. Turnpike and rail lines in Chinatown, knitting together an urban fabric torn apart in the 1960s.
The historic Boston mayoral race reflects a major American city that is very much at a crossroads, of communities wanting to embrace the new, and others not quite ready to let go of what they know.