Brookline, Newton & Inner West

I-90 Mass Pike / I-95 / MBTA Green Line / Commuter Rail

The wealthy inner western suburbs of Boston. Anchored by Brookline (an affluent town that surrounds much of western Boston but is not part of the city, home to the Kennedy Presidential Birthplace and Frederick Law Olmsted's home at Fairsted), Newton ('The Garden City' — a 13-village town with the highest-rated public school district in Massachusetts, home to Boston College and Lasell University), Watertown, Belmont (where Mitt Romney's family is from), Waltham (home to Brandeis University and Bentley University), and Arlington (on the Minuteman Bikeway). The region is served by multiple MBTA Green Line and Commuter Rail stations.