Explore Boston building permits, BPD crime data, and institutional and three-family zoning in Allston, home of Harvard's Allston campus and Harvard Stadium.
Search this neighborhoodAllston sits on the south bank of the Charles River between Brighton to the west and Fenway and Brookline to the east. The Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton Avenue, Harvard Avenue and Cambridge Street corridors carry most of its shops and restaurants, and the housing is largely triple-deckers and multi-family buildings, with newer apartment blocks near the river.
Harvard owns a large share of the land north of Cambridge Street: Harvard Stadium on North Harvard Street, the Business School campus at Soldiers Field, and the Science and Engineering Complex on Western Avenue. The Paradise Rock Club on Commonwealth Avenue is one of the neighborhood's best-known venues, and Smith Playground and Ringer Playground are its larger public recreation sites.
CivicScout tracks Boston Police reported incidents, Vision Zero traffic crash records, and open building and property violation cases within a half mile of any searched address in Allston. Crash records here do not publish injury counts.
View safety data →Permit activity follows Harvard's campus expansion along Western Avenue as well as renovation and conversion work on the neighborhood's older multi-family buildings.
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View new construction →The city's zoning layer shows roughly a fifth of Allston as Institutional and another fifth as Economic Development Area, with three-family residential and community commercial districts along the avenue corridors.
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