By Riley Robinson Diane Carroll, 66, has lived in the same house on Calumet Street since age 10. “You walked out of your house, and it took a village,” she said. “Everyone watched everyone...

By Riley Robinson David Nicholas, 32, emigrated from Trinidad to Dorchester in 2013. He made a smaller move to Mission Hill a year and a half ago, where he now rents a single-family home with his brother...

By Emily Rubin “Keeper of disorderly house.” For Victoria Merriman, 42, that phrase defined one of her favorite memories in Mission Hill. She was having a small get-together at her house, right...

By Joshua Qualls “Mission Hill is the streets,” said Hector Galarza, a 47-year-old who grew up in the neighborhood. “Everybody there is street, and what I mean by street — everybody there was...

By Daniel J. Hentz It’s a quiet Sunday evening. Local students are getting the last of their sweet-tooth jitters out before colder weather begins creeping into the forecast. JP Licks is a beloved...

By Matthew Cunha “It is home. That is the best part,” said Brandon Ekhator.   Ekhator, 32, has lived in or around Mission Hill his entire life. He now owns his own apartment close to Brigham...

By Eileen O'Grady As rain came down outside in torrents, Allan Kindell beckoned bedraggled parishioners into the sanctuary of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, offering them free umbrellas and a magnificent...

By Zicong Zhang Anna Sifferath, a 21-year-old engineering student from Northeastern University, just moved to Mission Hill in July. “It’s fun,” she said. “I just moved into a new place,...

By Mengjiao Yu “Hope is what we do,” said 29-year-old Andrea Costa, an office assistant of Sociedad Latina. Sociedad is a non-profit which organizes programs for local youth, from regular events...

By Josh Sullivan Abdulkadir “Hindi” Muhammad thinks so highly of the Mission Hill area that he insists he wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. Since moving to Boston about 20 years ago, he hasn’t. “It’s...

By Ha Ta “The best part of living in Mission Hill?” Arafat Akbar asked himself aloud. “Truthfully, the view.” Arafat Akbar was raised as a Roxbury kid. He recently moved to Mission Hill...

By Si (Floris) Wu Mary Fitzpatrick, 83, is a retired payroll manager at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has been living in Mission Hill for her whole life. Lots of people have come and gone throughout...