The T reports Red Line delays of 10 minutes due to signal problems near Harvard - which is better than the 30-minute delays they were causing at the height of rush hour. Read more.
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By adamg - 2/26/20 - 6:27 pm
Jam and cram at Park Street around 5:30 p.m. Photo by Cam DC.
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By adamg - 2/4/20 - 5:03 pm
The MBTA reports that trains heading towards Alewife are just going to sit a spell because of signal problems at Harvard.
By adamg - 2/4/20 - 1:51 pm
Updated with additional info from Cambridge PD.
Cambridge Police report a man upset at getting a ticket in Harvard Square yesterday afternoon expressed his displeasure by chasing after the parking officer who'd written the ticket, kicking him in the shins and shoving the ticket down the parking officer's jacket. Read more.
By adamg - 1/17/20 - 1:45 pm
Cambridge Police report arresting a Dorchester man and a Lynn woman for a gun display during a Harvard Square altercation that led Harvard to tell students and staff to stay off the streets yesterday afternoon. Read more.
By adamg - 1/16/20 - 3:47 pm
Harvard sent out alerts about "a report of a man with a gun in the area of Smith Campus Center" - formerly the Holyoke Center - in the heart of Harvard Square around 3:30 p.m. The alert was called off not long after - after Cambridge Police found and arrested the man. Read more.
By adamg - 1/13/20 - 2:20 pm
Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law School professor and Brookline resident, charges the New York Times committed "clickbait defamation" in a headline and lead paragraph that made it sound he was condoning MIT professors and administrators taking money from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when, he says, he wasn't. Read more.
By adamg - 1/3/20 - 9:13 pm
John Overholt is liking how the renovated upper busway at Harvard Square includes restored stained glass.
By adamg - 12/23/19 - 10:24 am
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Tom's BaoBao, a Chinese steamed-bun place in Harvard Square, has closed, its owners dreams of opening 30 bao-bao places across the Northeast at an end.
By adamg - 12/9/19 - 9:54 am
Last Thursday, Tufts University announced it would remove the Sackler name everywhere it appears on its campuses, because of the family's ties to the opioid crisis.
The next day, the president of Harvard, who was previously the president of Tufts, said nope, doing what Tufts did would be "inappropriate."
By adamg - 12/5/19 - 9:39 am
Cambridge Police report that around 4 a.m., a car crashed through a fence and into a tree on Harvard grounds at 1270 Massachusetts Ave. in Harvard Square. Read more.
By adamg - 12/1/19 - 5:34 pm
The Cambridge Fire Department reports firefighters responded to the Border Cafe, 32 Church St., at 1:06 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire. The department reports it started in the restaurant ductwork.
By adamg - 11/29/19 - 4:08 pm
The Cambridge Fire Department reports a fire that went to two alarms was reported in a "a 3 1/2 story brick & wood classroom building" in Harvard Square around 11:45 a.m.
By adamg - 11/8/19 - 10:19 pm
Don't go to BU for the annual Boston Anarchist Bookfair tomorrow - it's been moved to the Democracy Center, 45 Mt. Auburn St. in Cambridge, between noon and 5 p.m. In a statement organizers explained the sudden move: Read more.
By adamg - 10/24/19 - 4:42 pm
Cambridge Police report arresting a former Shake Shack worker they say grew enraged when his final paycheck wasn't ready for him and threw "a plastic container filled with straws" at a manager - in addition to throwing "several items around the store, which included smashing a hot sauce bottle, customer's orders of burgers and fries on the floor and a tray with cup of sodas toward the kitchen work area." Read more.
By adamg - 10/21/19 - 8:57 am
The Harvard Gazette reports a scientist picked to judge a competition on the Food Network said his experience got him to thinking about applying ideas developed for regrowing new organs to lab-grown meat - and that now his lab has "grown rabbit and cow muscle cells on edible gelatin scaffolds that mimic the texture and consistency of meat, demonstrating that realistic meat products may eventually be produced without the need to raise and slaughter animals."
By adamg - 10/18/19 - 9:58 pm
Cambridge Day reports Cambridge is giving at least temporary control of the soon to be emptied Harvard Square newsstand to a group that promises a series of pop-up events to make the space a "community living room," at least until something more permanent is slotted into the kiosk. Adirondack chairs are part of the short-term plans.
By adamg - 9/17/19 - 7:53 am
Post-crash scene, with the boom truck that was involved. Photo by Chris Devers.
By adamg - 9/9/19 - 6:23 pm
UPDATE:. Suspicious package found, determined safe, service resumes.
Abandon all hope, basically.
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