Explore Boston building permits, BPD crime data, and multifamily and shoreland zoning in South Boston, around Castle Island and Dorchester Heights.
Search this neighborhoodSouth Boston is a peninsula between the Seaport and Dorchester Bay, with Broadway and East Broadway as its main commercial streets. Its housing is mostly triple-deckers and brick rowhouses, with newer condominium and apartment buildings near the Seaport side, and industrial land along the Reserved Channel.
Castle Island, with Fort Independence, and Pleasure Bay front the harbor, and Carson Beach, the L Street Bathhouse and Moakley Park run along Dorchester Bay. The Dorchester Heights Monument, built in 1902, marks the hill where Continental Army cannon were placed in March 1776. The Red Line stops at Broadway and Andrew, and several bus routes terminate at Andrew Station and City Point.
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 South Boston. Crash records here do not publish injury counts.
View safety data →Permit activity is mostly renovation and condominium conversion of triple-deckers, with new apartment construction near Broadway and industrial and port work along the Reserved Channel.
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View new construction →About 29 percent of South Boston is zoned Multifamily Residential, with General Industrial, Shoreland Open Space and Maritime Economy Reserve districts each covering about a seventh.
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