Brookline Village is among the significant business and also retail facilities of the community of Brookline, Massachusetts. Found simply north of Massachusetts Path 9 as well as west of the Muddy River, it is the historical center of the community as well as includes its significant civic buildings, consisting of the town hall as well as the public library. The business spine of the town, overlaping Washington Road from Route 9 to the library, is a historical area listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Brookline Town Commercial District.

Brookline Village was the very first substantial site, known as Muddy River, of colonial settlement in what is now Brookline, because of the crossing of the Muddy River, which provided overland gain access to between Boston as well as Cambridge (then bit greater than a village at what is currently Harvard Square). The village grew from this starting to end up being Brookline's initial significant economic facility. In the 19th century, commercial activity was focused on Boylston, Washington, as well as Harvard Streets, as well as expanded with the construction of what is currently Brookline Method, and also the arrival of the rail line that currently serves the MBTA.

Brookline Town was as soon as known as Strike Dish Village, called after the Strike Dish Tavern, as well as for a while was part of Roxbury, Massachusetts.