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 Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Brookline, MA” and “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Postal codes: 02445 and 02446
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Boston Children’s Hospital.

Museum
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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
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Boston Children's Hospital is the main pediatric training and research hospital of , Harvard University. It is a nationally ranked, freestanding acute care children's hospital located at the centre of Harvard Longwood Medical and Academic Area in , Massachusetts.

Hospital
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in is a teaching hospital of and one of the founding members of Beth Israel Lahey Health.

Places in the Area

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

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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.

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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”
  • 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”
  • Tajik: “Бруклайн, Массачусетс”
  • Tatar: “Бруклайн”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Brookline”
  • Turkish: “Brookline, MA”
  • Turkish: “Brookline, Mass.”
  • Turkish: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Brookline”
  • Ukrainian: “Бруклайн”
  • Ume Sami: “Brookline”
  • Urdu: “بروک لائن، میساچوسٹس”
  • Volapük: “Brookline”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brookline”
  • Welsh: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Brookline”
  • Yiddish: “ברוקליין”
  • Yoruba: “Brookline, Massachusetts”
  • Yoruba: “Brookline”
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