Harvard Square

A honking good time

By adamg - 10/11/22 - 1:41 pm

Greg Cook took in the annual Honk procession from Somerville to Cambridge over the weekend.

So did Frank Solensky: Read more.

Convicted bank robber in a blue baseball cap charged with holding up Harvard Square bank teller just five days after another career criminal in a blue baseball cap held up the same teller

By adamg - 10/8/22 - 1:34 pm

Robber waits for more money from teller. Surveillance photo via FBI.

A Jamaica Plain man was indicted this week on charges he held up a TD Bank branch on May 2 while wearing a blue Brooklyn Dodgers cap - less than a week after another man, wearing a similar blue Red Sox cap held up the same bank and the same teller. Read more.

Not very humerus: Thief makes off with part of a Harvard Square skeleton

By adamg - 10/7/22 - 1:04 pm

Cambridge Police report a boneheaded robbery at Wusong Road:

A manager of a restaurant located in Harvard Square called to report that someone stole the arm to their skeleton that they had for decoration in front of their establishment.

The thief made good his escapula, but police say a surveillance camera snapped photos.

Harvard government school having trouble running an election

By adamg - 9/23/22 - 9:28 am

The Crimson reports on problems electing a student government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Peck, peck, peckin' on heaven's door

By adamg - 9/18/22 - 12:55 pm

Turkey on steps of church rectory in Cambridge

Roving UHub photographer Melissa Hirshson spotted this bird seeking a chance to speak about her Lord and Savior, or maybe to ask to see an electric bill or even to seek a donation for GBH, at the main entrance to the rectory of Christ Church in Harvard Square this morning (bonus: Note the boot scraper on the step).

Dorchester man faces federal charges for four area bank robberies

By adamg - 8/29/22 - 12:44 pm

Surveillance photo via Brookline PD.

A Dorchester man already behind bars awaiting trial for a Harvard Square bank robbery now faces up to 20 years in federal prison for that and bank robberies in Boston and Brookline. Read more.

Cambridge man to return home

By adamg - 8/24/22 - 2:25 pm

The Harvard Crimson reports that Bill De Blasio, who went to Cambridge Rindge and Latin before becoming the second straight New York mayor from the Boston area, will be a "visiting fellow" at the Harvard Institute of Politics this fall.

Harvard Square gets a tiki bar

By adamg - 8/23/22 - 8:47 am

And, yes, they have glassware that looks like you'd expect at a tiki bar. Richard Auffrey reports he likes Wusong Road, vows to return, says next time he might even try the New England Chop Suey - "Ma La spice, grilled tomato 'bolognese', home-made shanxi maoerduo noodles, spring onions, crispy garlic chips and Thai basil."

Court blasts Harvard for the way it treated a woman whose ancestors were stripped half naked for photos ordered up by one of its more notoriously racist professors

By adamg - 6/23/22 - 3:07 pm

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a woman who sued Harvard University both to gain possession of four daguerreotypes of two of her ancestors ordered stripped half naked in 1850 by professor Louis Agassiz, whose contributions to geology were matched by the depths of his racism, has no right to the images, but that she does have the right to try to convince a jury that Harvard committed "negligent and indeed reckless infliction of emotional distress" by continuing to use the images for its own purposes even after she objected. Read more.

Helium shortage hits home at Harvard; forces shutdown of some experiments

By adamg - 6/14/22 - 9:44 am

The Harvard Gazette reports a global shortage of helium, caused in large part by sanctions on Russia, which ships much of the world's supply, is beginning to affect research in physics, engineering, chemistry, biology and medical research, all of which use the gas to cool things down to temperatures way, way below freezing. Read more.

Man who is already an armed career criminal indicted for Harvard Square bank robbery

By adamg - 6/3/22 - 4:46 pm

From FBI affidavit.

A Boston man arrested for holding up a TD Bank branch in Harvard Square in April was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of bank robbery, which could mean a 20-year prison sentence if he's convicted. Read more.

Boston man goes across the river to rob a bank, gets arrested before he can hail an escape taxi, police say

By adamg - 5/23/22 - 6:07 pm

Cambridge Police report arresting a Boston man who robbed the TD Bank branch at 1270 Massachusetts Ave. - before he could get into a taxi at the cab stand near Harvard's Smith Center to try to flee the area. Read more.

Area capybara captured

By adamg - 5/22/22 - 12:04 pm

Unfortunately, it looks like Chuckie won't be roaming the streets of Charlestown anymore, since he's been stuffed and mounted in a display case at Harvard's Museum of Natural History, as Cycle Happiness discovered.

Harvard has a long legacy of slave owning

By adamg - 4/26/22 - 2:18 pm

In a new report out today, Harvard University acknowledges a history that included being run by slaveholders right from the start: Read more.

Harvard plans to loosen mask requirements even as Covid-19 cases rise among undergraduates

By adamg - 3/4/22 - 4:49 pm

The Crimson reports.

Several hundred support Ukraine in Harvard Yard

By adamg - 2/27/22 - 2:01 pm