Mattapan
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Mattapan is a neighborhood ( Neighborhood) Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. First, Mattapan was a part of Dorchester, but was annexed in 1870 by Boston. As with other Boston neighborhoods of the late 19th and early 20th century, the development of Mattapan went hand in hand with the increasing development of railways and tram, which ensured a steadily improved access to the city center.
The district is now mainly of residential areas with public housing, small apartment buildings as well as houses for one to three families (so-called "Triple -Deckers "). The commercial center of Mattapan form the Blue Hill Avenue and Mattapan Square, where banks, law offices, restaurants and retailers are. Opened in 2009, a new, built for more than four million dollars a branch of the Boston Public Library.
In the language of the Indians Mattapan is a "good place to rest ".
- 2.1 Traffic
- 2.2 Public bodies
- 2.3 Education
History
Population Development
In the 1960s and 1970s there was a great upheaval in the composition of the population in Mattapan, which previously consisted mainly Jews. In 2011, lived there for 7.74% White, 78.08 % African American, 1.29 % Asian, 0.43 % Native American and 12.46% of other origin. 11.28 % reported to be Hispanics.
This development is mainly due to 1970 in 1968, which led to considerable ethnic upheavals (see the following ) throughout Boston. Business practices such as redlining and blockbusting and pure fear, which was allegedly disseminated by real estate agents among the inhabitants, led to panic selling and flight for White. It is described that the banking consortium Boston Banks Urban Renewal Group ( B- BURG ) had expelled the Jews from the district and that the company - at least partially - be responsible for the then incipient decay of the district. This widespread opinion was discussed between the Catholic and Jewish communities with different viewpoints.
Due to a sustained wave of immigration from Haiti and other Caribbean countries find again today greater revolutions of the population composition of the neighborhood instead. Now live in Mattapan more immigrants from Haiti than anywhere else throughout Massachusetts.
The district suffers from a high crime rate compared to 2011 for serious crimes on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high) was 8. The Boston rapper Big Shug therefore referred to the district regularly as " Murderpan ".
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
The Ashmont - Mattapan High Speed Line of the MBTA provides a road train connection to Ashmont. In addition, numerous bus routes and the commuter trains of the Fairmount Line to serve the district.
Public institutions
The Boston Public Library has in Mattapan own branch, whose origins go back to a resident named Increase S. Smith, of the Mattapan Library Association founded on 18 December 1849. The current building of the branch was opened on February 28, 2009 at the 1350 Blue Hill Avenue.
Education
The Boston Public Schools operate the public schools of the district:
- Ellison / Parks Early Education School
- James J. Chittick Elementary School
- Matta Hunt
- Charles H. Taylor
- Mildred Avenue K-8 School
- Young Achievers Science and Mathematics Pilot K-8 School
In addition, maintains the Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Boston the Mattapan Square Campus.
Personalities
- Dana Barros - Former basketball player of the National Basketball Association for the Boston Celtics
- Leonard Bernstein - Composer and Conductor
- Big Shug - Rapper
- Thomas M. Finneran - politicians
- Nat Hentoff - Jazz journalist and critic
- Theodore H. White - writer