Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts
Davis Square is a neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, located around the intersection of Holland Street, Dover Street, Elm Street, Highland Avenue, and College Avenue. It is located within walking distance of Tufts University. The Davis Square station is one of the stops on the Red Line of the MBTA. The popular Minuteman_Trail runs right through the middle of the square on a former rail line.
Davis Square was in 1997 listed in the Utne Reader as one of the fifteen "hippest places to live" in the United States. The extension of the Red Line to Alewife Station via Davis, already a college-oriented neighborhood, brought on a series of rapid changes that are still resented by many longtime Somerville residents.
Today, Davis Square is a mix of trendy restaurants and clothing shops and the working class commercial district of diners and tailors that predate the "discovery" of Davis and a trendy neighborhood.