The Mass Ave. Project
A Boston magazine photo essay, chronicling the iconic street.
By Danielle Dreilinger, Photographs by Jared Leeds, Illustrations by Joe McKendry
November 2007
- Fed up with the crime on her end of Mass Ave., 25-year-old Latisha Goodwin recently left Uphams Corner in search of a safer place to raise her baby.
Its 16 miles of blacktop run from gritty industrial zones to verdant suburbia, passing blocks of gentrified brownstones, college campuses, and bustling commercial strips. And as photographer Jared Leeds discovered when he set out a year ago to take portraits along its length, when you look at the people who live and work on this one street, you get a pretty good picture of the Hub itself...
Take a tour along Mass Ave...
Originally published in Boston magazine, November 2007
