Neighborhood of Atlanta
In addition to Auburn Avenue itself, the surrounding neighborhood, also called Sweet Auburn is one of 242 officially recognized neighborhoods of Atlanta. It is bounded by:
- Freedom Parkway and the Old Fourth Ward (formerly the separate Bedford Pine neighborhood) on the north
- Boulevard and the Old Fourth Ward on the east
- the MARTA East-West line and the Oakland and Grant Park neighborhoods on the south, and
- the Downtown Connector and Downtown Atlanta on the west
Sweet Auburn used to be two separate neighborhoods: Grady/Antoine Graves (the Grady Homes housing project) and Butler Street.
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)