[3][4]: 13  (The common was later enclosed and made a park in 1828, despite protests from the citizens of nearby Watertown and Arlington.

[4]: 13  Later on, the neighborhood's clay pits were turned into the city's dumpster, and after that into Danehy Park.

Moreover, as of the 2000 census, 23% of the neighborhood's residents were born abroad, and almost exactly half of them are immigrant families.

[1] Elizabeth Warren lives in the neighborhood at 24 Linnaean St, a house which she and her husband Bruce H. Mann had bought back in September 1995.

[8] On November 19, 2023, there was a protest calling for a ceasefire in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war outside her house; it's unknown whether she was inside at the time.