Explore Boston building permits, BPD crime data, and three-family and mixed-use zoning in Charlestown, home of the Bunker Hill Monument and USS Constitution.
Search this neighborhoodCharlestown is a peninsula between the Charles and Mystic rivers, connected to the North End and the West End by the Charlestown Bridge and to Somerville by Sullivan Square. Its core around City Square and Monument Square is dense with 19th-century rowhouses and triple-deckers, and the Warren Tavern on Pleasant Street dates to 1780.
The Bunker Hill Monument commemorates the 1775 battle. The Charlestown Navy Yard, now part of Boston National Historical Park, holds USS Constitution, and the yard's former industrial buildings have been converted to housing and offices. Bunker Hill Community College is on New Rutherford Avenue, and the Orange Line stops at Community College and Sullivan Square.
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 Charlestown. Crash records here do not publish injury counts.
View safety data →Permit activity combines renovation of the neighborhood's older rowhouses with redevelopment on the Navy Yard and former industrial land along the waterfront.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →The zoning layer shows about a fifth of Charlestown as Three-Family Residential, with Mixed Use, Maritime Economy Reserve and Charlestown Navy Yard districts each covering a tenth or more.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →Location reports for Charlestown addresses surface Inspectional Services building permits, open 311 requests, food establishment inspections, and the applicable Boston zoning subdistrict.
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