page_title: East Boston
section_title: Government and neighborhood
hierarchical_section_title: East Boston / Government and neighborhood
caption_attribution_description: English: Boston Fire Department, Engine 5 Firehouse (District 1 Chief) --- 360 Saratoga Street, East Boston 02128
context_page_description: East Boston, nicknamed Eastie, is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts with over 45,000 residents. Annexed by the city of Boston in 1836, it is bordered by the towns of Winthrop and Revere. It is separated from the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown and downtown Boston by Boston Harbor. The footprint of the East Boston neighborhood as it is known today was created in the 1940s by connecting five of the inner harbor islands using land fill.
  East Boston has long provided homes for immigrants with Irish, Russian Jews and later, Italians. John F. Kennedy's great-grandfather was one of many Irish people to immigrate to East Boston, and the Kennedy family lived there for some time. From 1920 to 1954, East Boston was the site of the East Boston Immigration Station, which served as the regional immigration hub for Boston and the surrounding area. The 1990s into the early millennium brought new Latin American immigrants, who today compose more than fifty percent of the neighborhood population.
  Logan International Airport is located in East Boston, connecting Boston to domestic and international locations.
context_section_description: East Boston is the headquarters for District A-7 of the Boston Police Department.  The Boston Fire Department has three fire stations in East Boston: Ladder 2 & Engine 9 in Maverick Square; Engine 5 in Day Square; and Ladder 21 & Engine 56 in Orient Heights.
  Boston EMS's Station 7 is based at Logan Airport, but provides emergency medical services to all of East Boston.
  The United States Postal Service operates a branch in East Boston at 50 Meridian Street.
  The Logan Office Center, which contains the headquarters of the Massachusetts Port Authority, is adjacent to Logan Airport.
caption: Boston Fire Department Engine 5 on Saratoga Street
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