RIP samclem (former mod) (December 18, 2021)

[plankter]

I found the thread that Chronos was referring to, from June 2007. Just seeing the usernames is making me wistful.

What is the name of the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street?

When I was a kid, we called it the “parkin”. I don’t know if that was a regional name (Massachusetts) or a time-specific name (1940s), but I haven’t heard it in about 50 years until the other day I ran across the word, used in the sense I have mentioned, in a book written in the 1930s. But on the other hand, I haven’t heard any word used to refer to that strip of grass. What is it called today?