Brookline (Massachusetts)
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| Foundation : | 1638 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Massachusetts | ||
| County : | Norfolk County | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 20 ′ N , 71 ° 7 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 57,107 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 3,244.7 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 17.7 km 2 (approx. 7 mi 2 ) of which 17.6 km 2 (approx. 7 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 15 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 02445, 02446, 02447, 02467 | ||
| Area code : | +1 617, 857 | ||
| FIPS : | 25-09175 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0619456 | ||
| Website : | www.brooklinema.gov | ||
Brookline is a city in Norfolk County in Massachusetts , United States. It borders Newton in the southwest and Boston .
description
The first settlement of today's urban area took place at the beginning of the 17th century. Brookline was declared a city in 1705 and has since managed to maintain its independence from the city of Boston, which almost completely surrounds Brookline. Brookline is the birthplace of the brothers John and Robert F. Kennedy .
sons and daughters of the town
- George S. Boutwell (1818–1905), politician, Governor of Massachusetts, US Congressman, US Treasury Secretary and US Senator
- John Lowell Gardner (1837–1898), businessman, art collector and patron
- John Lawson Stoddard (1850-1931), travel writer
- Arthur Gordon Webster (1863-1923), physicist
- Richard Clark Cabot (1868–1939), physician and social ethicist, namesake of the Cabot rings
- Joseph A. Conry (1868–1943), Massachusetts politician and representative in the US House of Representatives
- Julian Coolidge (1873-1954), mathematician
- Daniel Gregory Mason (1873–1953), composer
- Amy Lowell (1874–1925), suffragette, literary scholar and poet
- John Bellamy Taylor (1875–1963), engineer
- Ray Atherton (1883–1960), architect and diplomat
- Lothrop Stoddard (1883–1950), eugenicist and racist author
- CC Little (1888–1971), geneticist and cancer and tobacco researcher
- William Chase Greene (1890–1978), classical philologist
- Francis Ouimet (1893-1967), amateur golfer
- Theresa Weld (1893–1978), figure skater
- Robert Cutler (1895–1974), lawyer, writer, economic manager, and United States' first national security advisor
- William A. Wellman (1896–1975), film director
- Caroline Farrar Ware (1899–1990), history professor, social scientist, and New Deal advocate
- Conrad Salinger (1901–1962), composer, arranger and conductor
- John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), 35th President of the United States of America
- Robert R. Blake (1918–2004), psychologist and economist
- Mike Wallace (1918–2012), journalist, newscaster and correspondent
- Kathleen Cavendish (1920–1948), sister of John F. Kennedy
- Eunice Kennedy-Shriver (1921–2009), activist for the disabled
- Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924-2006), sister of John F. Kennedy
- Muriel Cooper (1925–1994), graphic designer, researcher and art educator
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), younger brother of John F. Kennedy, Senate counsel, attorney general and Senator
- Jack Kirrane (1928–2016), ice hockey player and 1960 Olympic champion
- Paul Pender (1930–2003), boxer and world middleweight champion
- David Maysles (1931–1987), cameraman and director
- Paul Comi (1932-2016), actor
- Michael Dukakis (born 1933), politician, governor of Massachusetts
- Robert K. Kraft (* 1941), sports official
- Ray Drummond (* 1946), jazz bassist
- Richard S. Ellis (1947-2018), mathematician
- Barry Gordon (born 1948), actor
- Robert Beavers (* 1949), avant-garde filmmaker
- Michael Berlyn (* 1949), computer game designer and science fiction writer
- Eugene Clapp (* 1949), oarsman and second in 1972 with the eighth Olympic
- Jon Krakauer (* 1954), mountaineer and author
- Eric Menyuk (* 1959), actor and lawyer
- Karolyn Kirby (* 1961), beach volleyball player
- Conan O'Brien (born 1963), talk show host, television producer and author
- Bradley Birkenfeld (* 1965), bank manager and whistleblower
- Adam Posen (* 1966), economist
- John Hodgman (* 1971), author and humorist
- Coby Brown (* 1974), singer-songwriter and film composer
- Theo Stockman (* 1984), actor, singer and DJ
Brookline in pop culture
- Movies
- Scenes from the feature film Karate Kid IV (1993) were filmed in Brookline.
- Scenes from the movie The Greatest Game of His Life (2005) were filmed at The Country Club in Brookline, while all golf scenes were being filmed in Canada .
- Scenes from the movie American Hustle (2013) were shot on Brookline.
- literature
- Louise Andrews Kent's The Brookline Trunk , a historical novel set in and around Brookline; it also reflects the history of Brookline from 1650 to 1955.
- The children's book series Beacon Street Girls by Annie Bryant plays in the Beacon Street .
- music
- Jonathan Coulton's song Brookline refers to the city.
Town twinning
Brookline and Quezalguaque in western Nicaragua have been twinned since 1987 .
Web links
- Frederick Law Olmstead National Historic Site
- John F. Kennedy National Historic Site in Brookline, Mass.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official website for the twinning between Brookline and Quezalguaque (English), accessed on April 18, 2016