Boston Remembers Native Leonard Nimoy, Old West End

Boston’s West End looks nothing like it did when Leonard Nimoy was born there in 1931. Then, there were half a dozen schools, 32 ethnic groups and hundreds of tenement houses.

But that is where the actor’s legacy remains.

“I think he’s just a neighborhood guy made good,” said Duane Lucia, curator of The West End Museum.

Before he was Mr. Spock to legions of Trekkies the galaxy over, he was Leonard Nimoy, of Chambers Street, born in the old West End neighborhood on March 26, 1931.

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