[shhrubbery!]

It's East Cambridge, very near MIT. Years ago much of East Cambridge was working class people of mostly Irish and Italian background. By the time I was there 40+ years ago, it had become scruffy and a little dangerous. I.e. I wouldn't walk there at night.

Don't know who lives there now, but almost any university neighborhood in America is likely to be, as someone else put it, "diverse," and probably somewhat gentrified.

[ichabod1]

Well it’s gonna get gentrified now. This is just a little urban renewal in action.