West Somerville
West Somerville is Davis Square's residential backstop — Diesel Cafe, Life Alive, 48 restaurants and 13 parks including Seven Hills and Powder House Park, without the crowds the Green Line Extension brought next door. The same neighborhood, slightly quieter about it.
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About this Neighborhood
West Somerville bleeds into Davis Square so gradually that the boundary is mostly administrative. Diesel Cafe is here; so is Life Alive Organic Café, Mr. Crêpe, and the full Porter Square restaurant orbit just a walk away. The 48 restaurants are slightly below cohort but the quality density is real. Twelve grocery stores — above average — includes the Y-not Variety and Friendly Corner spots that have been feeding students and long-term residents without ceremony for decades. The 13 parks are the sleeper stat: Seven Hills Park, Powder House Park, and Reverend Thomas J. Williams Park form a string of green along the ridge. Social glue at 66 — modest, honest. Three fitness options says this is not a boutique fitness neighborhood; it's a neighborhood where people run outside. The doppelganger match to Davis Square itself at 0.9999 similarity is almost too perfect — these are functionally the same place.
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