My mom lived here till she was 8, thanks for the memories GTH!Also Leonard Nimoy grew up here. It was a very diverse neighborhood, especially for the time- Italians, Jews, Blacks, French Canadians, Eastern Europeans, Irish, English, Syrians, everything...good details below, genghis knows his history.

This is an historical and generally extinct neighborhood since it was torn down in the 1950's urban renewal. This included the historical Scollay Square. This area has all been "redeveloped" and Government Square covers part of it. In a preview of the Kelo Case that everyone is in a uproar about, A HALF-CENTURY AGO, the city of Boston bulldozed nearly the entire West End neighborhood in an unforgiving urban renewal rampage. The city quit collecting garbage and let the neighborhood to rot. Modest homes were called slums. The goverment then built high rises that the residents of the West End could not afford. This story is a sordid shocking episode of urban robbery.