Beantown

This summer, make 'Beantown' part of a classic road trip along New England's southern coast.

The setting enabled Beantown de Blasio to become a neighborhood guy as he successfully ran for city council, then public advocate.

In Hampstead, he leapt onto the counter of the jam-packed Beantown Cafe so that curious voters could see him speak.

Is he a crunchy Cambridge social servant or a law-and-order Beantown cop?