3 deckers

Hard Times for New England’s 3-Deckers
By ABBY GOODNOUGH, The New York Times, June 20, 2009

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — As foreclosures batter the dense neighborhoods of urban New England, a regional emblem is under siege.

Three-decker homes, which proliferated in cities like Boston; Providence, R.I.; and Worcester, Mass., a century ago and remain fixtures of the landscape, are being foreclosed on at disproportionate rates, left to decay and even razed.

Rows of wood-frame triple-deckers have provided moody backdrops in movies like “Mystic River,” a first glimpse of Boston for people who have landed at Logan International Airport and, for generations, an affordable and reasonably spacious place to live.

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