By A.M. Blaze Julius Wayne Dudley, 73, sports a sweeping moustache, cowboy hat, red Harvard sweater and black pants. Standing over six feet tall, Dudley speaks with a distinct confidence. The oldest...

By Katie Coiro Sarah Hanlon, 20, moved into Mission Hill to live in a packed house. “I live with six girls, so it’s a lot of fun,” she said. “You never know what’s going to happen next....

By Joshua Qualls Jaquelin Roman’s favorite memory of growing up in Mission Hill is going with her mom to the park next to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. “I just loved the neighborhood in...

By Story Hinckley, Hanyang Dong, Yinglong Chen Two stops on the Orange Line. That’s all it takes to erase a quarter-century off of your life. Boston is a city segregated by race, income and...

Story by Zach Ben-Amots, Jianou Han & DJ Wassick Forest Hills only has two consistent, defining features: change and a train station. For at least five years, the Forest Hills station has been surrounded...

By Veer Mudambi, Yuan Tian & Abhishek Majumdar “Urban renewal” programs are not uncommon in city neighborhoods, but typically the process occurs only once. Boston’s South End is one of the few...

By Patrick Strohecker, Ruobing Su, Ronnie Zhang At 4:30 p.m. on a Saturday in early February, a flood of people exited the Boston Opera House on Washington Street following the conclusion of Andrew Lloyd...

By Joshua Qualls Steven Matos, 19, has lived in Mission Hill all his life. He has big dreams. He’s already studying computer science at Bunker Hill Community College, and he wants to travel the...

By Riley Robinson Kristi Griffen, a 62-year-old retired special education teacher, moved to Mission Hill just over two years ago from the South End. She owns a brownstone with her husband, a doctor...

By Joshua Qualls In the nearly 40 years that he’s been coaching basketball in Mission Hill, 55-year-old Chuck Davis, 55, has seen a few of his players touch an NBA floor, including Wayne Turner and...

By Joshua Qualls Nancy Ahmadifar’s happily-ever-after story began with a housemate interview in 1975. It was a couple years after she moved to Mission Hill for grad school at Northeastern University....

By Riley Robinson Landon Chambers, 13, (left) and Christian Mateo, 14, are just finishing a basketball game with their friends at McLaughlin Park, still buttoned in their blue polo uniforms, fresh...