North Cambridge, also known as “Area 11”, is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts bounded by Porter Square and the Fitchburg Line railroad tracks on the south, the city of Somerville on the northeast, Alewife Brook and the town of Arlington on the northwest, and the town of Belmont on the west.
The main commercial areas of North Cambridge are situated along Alewife Brook Parkway and Massachusetts Avenue. A third area, Davis Square, in Somerville, also exerts considerable influence on the North Cambridge neighborhood.
Four roads span the railroad tracks, connecting the bulk of North Cambridge with other neighborhoods of Cambridge. From east to west, these are: Mass. Ave. (route MA-2A), Walden Street, Sherman Street (grade crossing), and Alewife Brook Parkway (carrying routes MA-2, MA-16, and US-3).
This series from The Cambridge Room contains photographs that Olive Pierce took portraits of residents of the Jefferson Park Housing project in North Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1973 to 1975.
Five teenagers sitting in a fence enclosed area. In the background is the Rindge Towers Housing Project, Jefferson Park, 1973
A close up of Sawyer brothers. They are at the Francis J. McCrehan Memorial Swimming and Wading Pool, 1973
Children standing in the courtyard of the Jefferson Park Housing Project, Jefferson Park, 1973
Four children playing by the railroad tracks next to the Jefferson Park Housing Project, Jefferson Park, 1973
Two boys standing in a doorway of the Jefferson Park Housing Project, Jefferson Park, 1973
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