Explore Boston building permits, BPD crime data, and air rights and mixed-use zoning in Chinatown, around Beach Street and Tufts Medical Center.
Search this neighborhoodChinatown is a compact neighborhood south of Downtown Crossing, centered on Beach Street, Tyler Street, Harrison Avenue and Washington Street, with the ceremonial Chinatown Gate marking the entrance on Beach Street. It has been a Chinese-American community since the 19th century, and its storefronts hold restaurants, bakeries, grocers and community organizations.
Tufts Medical Center on Washington Street and the Josiah Quincy Elementary School are its main institutions. The Massachusetts Turnpike and Interstate 93 run along its edges, and the zoning layer shows a third of the neighborhood as air-rights parcels over the highway. The Orange Line stops at Chinatown, and Silver Line buses run along Washington Street.
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 Chinatown. Crash records here do not publish injury counts.
View safety data →Permit activity combines renovation of older commercial and residential buildings with larger redevelopment projects around the medical center and along Washington Street.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →About a third of Chinatown is zoned as Air Rights, with Residential, Mixed-Use and Institutional districts making up most of the rest.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →Location reports for Chinatown addresses surface Inspectional Services building permits, open 311 requests, food establishment inspections, and the applicable Boston zoning subdistrict.
Search an address →Search an address in Chinatown to see building permits, safety data, zoning details, and AI-powered neighborhood reports.
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