East Cambridge, Massachusetts
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East Cambridge is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Referred to as Area 1, East Cambridge is bounded by the Charles River on the East, the Somerville border on the North, Broadway and Main Street on the South, and the railroad tracks on the West. [1] "East Cambridge Begins at The Tracks" was a controversial slogan in the early 20th Century which challenged neighborhood honor between the residents of East Cambridge (Area 1) and Wellington-Harrington (Area 3).
During the late 1990s and early 2000s, East Cambridge and its neighbor Lechmere Square have been undergoing a gentrification process, as old factories are converted into condominiums and office space.
Dorothea Lynde Dix became an advocate for the humane treatment of the mentally insane in the Antebellum Era when she volunteered as a Sunday School teacher at East Cambridge, Massachusetts.
East Cambridge, Massachusetts is roughly a five block area of condensed homes. There are predominately Irish and Portuguese natives with also a mix of Polish and Italian. It is predominately a working class neighborhood. The neighborhood is currently the site of most of large scale developments in Cambridge, including North Point, which will consist of over a dozen residential towers.
[edit] Demographics
Per city data,[1] in 2005 East Cambridge had a population of 7,294 residents living in 2,726 households. The average household income was $47,979.
