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Article: 02131, 02132 A long time ago, a bunch of West Roxbury neighbors were plunked down into the Roslindale ZIP code. Now they're finally going home.
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 2, 2007
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CITY WEEKLY
Eight years ago, Gail Curley decided to move to West Roxbury. She
looked at newspaper ads listed under "West Roxbury." When she saw a
promising place, she called a West Roxbury realtor. She drove to
West Roxbury and fell in love.
But then, as she got ready to sign the legal documents for her
new house, the name of a different neighborhood suddenly appeared:
Roslindale. It turned out that even though the house lay within the
generally recognized boundaries of West Roxbury, a quirk of the US
Postal Service bestowed a Roslindale ZIP code upon her new
neighborhood.
"I was taken aback," Curley said. "I said, `I thought this was
West Roxbury.' Everything about it said West Roxbury."
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