Newton Corner borders Brighton, a neighborhood of Boston, as well as the city of Watertown, Massachusetts.

Newton Corner sprang up in the late 1600s, when a village grew at the intersection of Washington and Centre street, then rural roads.

Stores, farm stands, and a tavern came to service the steady stream of traffic.

This drastically changed the nature of the village center, splitting it in two, tearing down one-third of the businesses, and eviscerating the existing street patterns.

Newton Corner remains in the twenty-first century rent in two by the deep cut of the turnpike and dominated by the heavy traffic and complicated ramp and road patterns at the interchange, with little pedestrian traffic or intercourse between the two separated halves.