Capen Street

Capen Street is a railway stop in City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Capen Street is situated nearby to Shields Park, as well as near the park Ryan Playground.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Capen Street station and Mattapan station.

Capen Street station

Railway stop

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Capen Street station is a light rail station in Milton, Massachusetts. It serves the MBTA Mattapan Line. It is located on Capen Street off Eliot Street; the westernmost of the four MBTA stations in Milton, it consists of two side platforms flanking the eponymous street's grade crossing.

Mattapan station

Railway station

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Mattapan station is an MBTA light rail station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the southern terminus of the Mattapan Line, part of the Red Line, and is also an important MBTA bus transfer station, with eight routes terminating there. Mattapan station is situated 1,400 feet west of Capen Street.

Blue Hill Avenue station

Railway station

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Blue Hill Avenue station is a regional rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Fairmount Line located in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Blue Hill Avenue station is situated 2,800 feet northwest of Capen Street.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mattapan and Lower Mills.

Mattapan

Suburb

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Mattapan is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Mattapan is the original Massachusett name for the Dorchester area, possibly meaning "a place to sit." At the 2010 census, it had a population of 36,480, with the majority of its population being immigrants.

Lower Mills

Neighborhood

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The Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District is a historic district on both sides of the Neponset River in the Dorchester area of Boston and in the town of Milton, Massachusetts.

Ashmont

Neighborhood

Ashmont is a section of the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It includes the subsections of Ashmont Hill, Peabody Square, and Ashmont-Adams.

Capen Street

Type: Railway stop
Categories: transport stop and transportation
Location: City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.26756° or 42° 16′ 3″ north

Longitude

-71.08709° or 71° 5′ 14″ west

Operator

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Network

MBTA

Open location code

87JC7W97+25

OpenStreetMap ID

node 67465016

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=stop_position

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=stop

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