Explore Boston building permits, BPD crime data, and three-family and parkland zoning in Roxbury, around Nubian Square and Franklin Park.
Search this neighborhoodRoxbury is one of Boston's oldest neighborhoods, settled in 1630 and annexed to the city in 1868. Nubian Square, called Dudley Square until 2019, is its commercial center, and the Bolling Building on Washington Street houses Boston Public Schools offices. The residential streets are mostly triple-deckers and multifamily buildings, with some institutional and industrial land along Melnea Cass Boulevard.
Franklin Park, laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Franklin Park Zoo take up roughly a quarter of the neighborhood in the city's zoning layer. Roxbury Community College on Columbus Avenue, the Shirley-Eustis House on Shirley Street, built in the 1740s, and Roxbury Heritage State Park are among its landmarks. Ruggles Station serves the Orange Line and commuter rail, 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 Roxbury. Crash records here do not publish injury counts.
View safety data →Permit activity is mostly renovation and new infill housing on triple-decker lots, with larger institutional and mixed-use projects around Nubian Square and Ruggles.
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View new construction →The zoning layer shows about 30 percent of Roxbury as Three-Family Residential, 24 percent as Parkland Open Space and 17 percent as Multifamily Residential.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
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