Massachusetts
Norfolk
Town of Brookline

Brookline

Brookline is a primarily residential, although fairly high density, suburb of . It has several interesting neighborhoods to visit, and two National Historic Sites.
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  • Type: Town with 63,200 residents
  • Description: town in Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Brookline (MA)”, “Brookline ma”, “Brookline mass”, “Brookline, ma”, “Brookline, MA”, “Brookline, Mass”, “Brookline, Mass.”, “Brookline, Massachusetts”, “Brookline, Norfolk County, MA”, “Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts”, and “Public Library of Brookline”
  • Postal codes: 02445 and 02446
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Public building
Photo: Biruitorul, Public domain.
The is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts.

Hospital
Photo: Tim Pierce, CC BY 3.0.
in is a teaching hospital of and one of the founding members of Beth Israel Lahey Health.

Hospital
Dana–Farber Cancer Institute is a comprehensive cancer treatment and research center in , . Dana-Farber is the founding member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Harvard's Comprehensive Cancer Center designated by the National Cancer Institute, and one of the 15 clinical affiliates and research institutes of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jamaica Plain-Mission Hill and Fenway-Kenmore.

Photo: Jonathan Bowen, CC BY 2.0.
Jamaica Plain and Mission Hill are two distinct neighborhoods within the City of . They are grouped together here due to their shared border and transit options.

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The neighborhood is named after Kenmore Square, and after the Fens, both of which it encompasses. Kenmore Square is the area's dynamic urban center.

Photo: Bev Sykes, CC BY 2.0.
One of the first towns founded in Massachusetts Bay, is located at the geographic center of . Serving as the heart of Black culture in Boston, seriously considered seceding from Boston during the late 1980s.

Brookline

Latitude
42.3329° or 42° 19′ 59″ north
Longitude
-71.1188° or 71° 7′ 8″ west
Population
63,200
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US BMA
Open location code
87JC8VMJ+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158860357
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4931482
Wiki­data ID
Q49142
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yoruba—“Brookline” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Brookline”
  • Arabic: “بروكلين”
  • Armenian: “Բրուքլայն”
  • Asturian: “Brookline”
  • Basque: “Brookline”
  • Belarusian: “Бруклайн”
  • Belarusian: “Бруклін”
  • Bulgarian: “Бруклин”
  • Catalan: “Brookline (Massachusetts)”
  • Catalan: “Brookline”
  • Cebuano: “Brookline”
  • Chechen: “Бруклайн”
  • Chinese: “Brookline”
  • Chinese: “布碌蘭”
  • Chinese: “布魯克林”
  • Chinese: “布魯克萊恩”
  • Chinese: “布鲁克莱恩”
  • Czech: “Brookline”
  • Dagbani: “Brookline”
  • Danish: “Brookline”
  • Dutch: “Brookline”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بروكلاين”
  • Estonian: “Brookline”
  • Finnish: “Brookline”
  • French: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • French: “Brookline”
  • German: “Brookline”
  • Greek: “Μπρούκλαϊν, Μασαχουσέτη”
  • Greek: “Μπρούκλαϊν”
  • Haitian: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Brookline”
  • Hebrew: “ברוקליין”
  • Hungarian: “Brookline”
  • Inari Sami: “Brookline”
  • Indonesian: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Indonesian: “Brookline”
  • Irish: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Irish: “Brookline”
  • Italian: “Brookline”
  • Japanese: “ブルックライン”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Brookline”
  • Kazakh: “Бруклайн”
  • Kirghiz: “Бруклайн”
  • Korean: “브루클라인”
  • Latvian: “Brookline”
  • Latvian: “Brūklaina”
  • Malay: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Mazanderani: “بروکلاین (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “بروکلاین”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Brookline”
  • Moksha: “Бруклайн (Массачусэтс)”
  • Moksha: “Бруклайн”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brookline”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brookline”
  • Norwegian: “Brookline”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Brookline”
  • Persian: “بروکلاین”
  • Persian: “بروکلین، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “بروکلین”
  • Polish: “Brookline”
  • Portuguese: “Brookline”
  • Russian: “Бруклайн”
  • Russian: “Бруклин”
  • Scots: “Brookline”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Brookline”
  • Serbian: “Бруклајн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brookline”
  • Silesian: “Brookline”
  • Skolt Sami: “Brookline”
  • Slovak: “Brookline”
  • Slovenian: “Brookline”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بروکلاین، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Brookline (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “Brookline”
  • Swahili: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Brookline”
  • Swedish: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Brookline”
  • Tatar: “Бруклайн”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Brookline”
  • Turkish: “Brookline, MA”
  • Turkish: “Brookline, Mass.”
  • Turkish: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Brookline”
  • Ukrainian: “Бруклайн”
  • Ume Sami: “Brookline”
  • Volapük: “Brookline”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brookline”
  • Welsh: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Brookline”
  • Yiddish: “ברוקליין”
  • Yoruba: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Yoruba: “Brookline”
  • “Brookline”

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