Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, and part of the Boston metropolitan area. Brookline borders six of Boston's neighborhoods: Brighton, Allston, Fenway–Kenmore, Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain, and West Roxbury. The city of Newton lies to the west of Brookline. Brookline was first settled in 1638 as a hamlet in Boston, known as Muddy River; it was incorporated as a separate town in 1705.
Intersection of Harvard and Beacon Streets in the Coolidge Corner neighborhood of Brookline
Overlooking Leverett Pond in Olmsted Park from the Brookline side
Brookline Village MBTA D-Train stop
Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Norfolk County is located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 725,981. Its county seat is Dedham. It is the fourth most populous county in the United States whose county seat is neither a city nor a borough, and it is the second most populous county that has a county seat at a town. The county was named after the English county of the same name. Two towns, Cohasset and Brookline, are exclaves.
Image: Old House, Quincy, Massachusetts
Image: Boardwalk through Ponkapoag Bog Clearing
Image: Inbound train at Brookline Hills station, January 2022
Image: Green Hall, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA
