Excerpt from Neighborhood Planning and Zoning, the Interim Planning Overlay District: A Plan to Manage Growth Population climbed from persons in 1840 to in 1865, with large homes being developed on the hills and more modest dwellings in the area around Maverick Square. The decline of wooden shipbuilding caused the exodus of skilled craftsmen at a time when many Irish immigrants were arriving in East Boston. Housing was made available by subdividing existing housing and constructing tenements. As the population continued to grow, wealthier families began to leave. Around 1880, development of Breed's Island, now the Orient Heights section of East Boston, began, but the pace of development was slow and the last lots were not sold until 1912. Successive waves of immigrants, primarily Jews and then Italians, pushed the population of East Boston to a peak level of which was maintained from 1916 through 1935. In 1905, after 70 years of ferry service, East Boston was connected to downtown by a subway tunnel. Logan Airport and the Sumner Tunnel were completed in 1923 and 1934, respectively, and the expansion of the aviation industry and postwar suburban development caused tremendous growth in the use of these facilities. Airport and commuter traffic spurred the develop ment, from 1949 to 1964, of airport access roads, the expressway, and the Callahan Tunnel. The following tables give a 1985 profile of East Boston, focusing on the characteristics of the neighborhood residents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.