Torton

This middle-class neighborhood supplies many of the middle-management and clerical workers from Newton.

Demographics

Torton is known for its ambitious middle-class residents. Many work as junior executives in Newton skyscrapers, and they consider their neighborhood the equal of Seaside or Greenvine. To anyone not blinded by civic pride or busy scurrying up the corporate ladder, the differences in the neighborhoods are obvious. Saying “I’m from Torton” is like saying “I’m about to act like a high-powered executive, but I’m really two steps from the mailroom.”

Points of interest

An unassuming office building in the heart of Torton is the home of Fidelity Investigations, the city’s largest independent detective agency. Fidelity’s waiting room is a perfect cross-section of the city itself: socialites reluctantly rub elbows with dockworkers, while recent immigrants and hardened gun molls eye each other warily over copies of the Evening Post. Beyond the waiting room are dozens of offices and meeting rooms, extensive case files that rival the police archives at city hall, and even a crime lab and library. The top floor is owned by Millie Kenworth, Fidelity’s founder. The building is open 24 hours a day, and of course there’s always a taxi waiting outside the lobby. Cabbies who like to drive fast make a lot of money at the fidelity building
On Bleeker Street, the Grundys are known as “The Weird Family.” They dress awkwardly, their children don’t join in neighborhood stickball games, and their splotchy complexion makes the neighborhood wonder if they’re sick. Anyone on the street could tell you that the Grundy’s aren’t from here. But only the Grundys know how true that is

Type

Neighbourhood