Life on the borderlands

Kristie Helms says her neighborhood, which straddles Roslindale and Jamaica Plain, seems to have more gangs of kids these days, possibly driven down Hyde Park Avenue by increased police activity at the Forest Hills T stop:

... I actually came home at lunch one day to find four kids standing in front of a retaining wall across from our house putting up a large patch of graffiti. They were so prepared that they were consulting a sketchbook and had painter's masks on!

IN BROAD DAYLIGHT! ...

Which gets her to musing about the problems of living in a city so focused on neighborhoods - especially for folks like her who are sort of on the frontier between two different neighborhoods.

Also see Charles Swift's Why boundaries matter.