Explore Boston building permits, BPD crime data, and apartment and institutional zoning in Longwood, home of the Longwood Medical Area.
Search this neighborhoodLongwood is the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, a dense cluster of hospitals and schools along Longwood Avenue, Brookline Avenue and Francis Street. Harvard Medical School on Shattuck Street, Boston Children's Hospital on Longwood Avenue, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute on Brookline Avenue and Brigham and Women's Hospital on Francis Street are all within its boundary, as is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Evans Way.
The neighborhood is small, with about 6,700 residents, and its housing is mostly apartment buildings and student and staff residences. The Riverway parkland forms its western edge, and the Green Line E branch stops at Longwood Medical Area.
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 Longwood. Crash records here do not publish injury counts.
View safety data →Permit activity is dominated by institutional construction and laboratory and hospital renovation, with some residential and mixed-use work on the edges.
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View new construction →The zoning layer classifies about three-quarters of Longwood as Apartment Residential and roughly a fifth as Institutional.
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