She says she walks to the Graham and Parks School in the morning with her children and recently even found a dentist within walking distance at Central Square.
Long-time neighborhood resident Geneva T. Malenfant says laundromats are especially important for residents of the neighborhood's many low-cost apartments who don't have laundry machines.
But some residents say they are becoming concerned about traffic disrupting their walks to the corner store.
Memorial Drive is increasingly congested during rush hour. The Cambridge Police Department (CPD) has even installed speed clocks on Sidney and Brookline Streets, comparing drivers' speeds to the 25 mph limit.
A Little Bit of Everything
Residents in north Cambridgeport are close to Central Square; those to the south are just blocks from the Charles River and the popular riverside Magazine Beach, named for the powder magazine that once stood nearby.
"To be able to walk out of my house and be at the river--there's very few places like that," says Nancy B. Woods, a resident of the Hastings Square area, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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