Harvard Square

Landlord booting Harvard Square's last dive bar, which had been open since the 1950s

By adamg - 12/14/24 - 5:29 pm

Cambridge Day reports on the impending end of Whitney's, which opened on JFK Street when it was still called Boylston Street.

Harvard Yard closed to the public after vandalism of John Harvard statue, administration building

By adamg - 10/10/24 - 12:13 pm

Harvard acted to bar outsiders from the Yard after somebody, apparently not affiliated with the university, vandalized the statue and the building with red paint as a protest against Israeli actions in Gaza, the Crimson reports.

Oh, poor beleagured RFK, Jr.

By adamg - 10/1/24 - 9:58 am

A small group of people yesterday protested the "censorship" of the bookstores in Harvard and Porter squares for allegedly refusing to carry any books by or about brainworm-adled whale-head enthusiast and Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Cambridge Day quoted one protester as saying, sure, she could just ask a bookstore to carry some of the dead-bear fan's tomes, but bookstores should know better and stock books she might serendipitously come across.

Bicyclist killed when truck driver tries to make turn at same time as her in Harvard Square, police say

By adamg - 6/7/24 - 7:44 pm

A Florida woman on a bicycle turning from Mt. Auburn Street onto DeWolfe Street in Harvard Square around 4:30 p.m. died when hit by a box truck whose driver was going in the same direction but then decided to make a turn, Cambridge Police and the Middlesex County District Attorney's office say. Read more.

Havard president tells Harvard Yard encampers: Move out now or face getting kicked out of school

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 11:39 am

The Crimson reports Harvard's interim president sent out a campus-wide e-mail today threatening students in a Harvard Yard encampment with "involuntary leave" for students who don't pack up now. Read more.

Dupe in Harvard bomb hoax sentenced to three years probation

By adamg - 4/26/24 - 9:31 am

A federal judge yesterday sentenced William Giordani of Manchester, NH to three years probation for the way he showed up at the Harvard Science Center with a bag full of Roman candles, bottle rockets and wires in it at the bidding of somebody who hired him through Craigslist - who then called police at Harvard seven times to warn them that bombs had been planted around the campus and to demand a large Bitcoin payment to keep them from going off. Read more.

Harvard shuts Harvard Yard for the week

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 11:50 am

Only people with Harvard IDs will be allowed in, in anticipation of Gaza-related protests, the Crimson reports.

WBZ reports students at Emerson and MIT have set up encampments.

Boston area left with just one book bound in human skin after Harvard removes remains of woman's back from a book in its collection

By adamg - 3/28/24 - 9:37 am

The Crimson reports the university, after long and careful consideration of the sort only Harvard can mount after ten years of criticism, has "removed the human skin binding from a book held in Houghton Library and apologized for 'past failures in its stewardship of the book'." Read more.

Harvard Square might get more restaurant space as part of Harvard plan to de-uglify alley between the two Coop buildings

By adamg - 3/25/24 - 9:53 am

Cambridge Day reports the university is looking at new ways to make Palmer Street better. One proposal: Retractable bollards on timers to be raised at key times to keep ride-share drivers out.

Harvard professor suspended for two years for violating sexual-harassment policies

By adamg - 3/7/24 - 6:14 pm

The Crimson reports German professor Eric Rentschler did something so horrible - exactly what, the U isn't yet saying - that he not only can't teach for two years, he's not even allowed to show his face on campus.

Those new Red Line cars sure are sporty

By adamg - 2/12/24 - 8:53 am

Red car parked in the Harvard Square busway

George S. couldn't help but notice how somebody (with Mass. plates, no less) wound up parked in the Harvard Square busway around 7:45 p.m. yesterday.

Earlier: Read more.

Harvard Book Store cancels plans for Prudential expansion

By adamg - 2/2/24 - 4:11 pm

The Harvard Book Store announced today it just couldn't make the numbers work and has called off plans to open a second shop across the river at the Prudential Center: Read more.

Harvard gets another bogus bomb threat, seventh in two months

By adamg - 1/24/24 - 11:53 pm

The Crimson reports Harvard and Cambridge police responded to a law-school building after getting a report of a bomb there around 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. There was no bomb there.

Red Line riders faced more woe, signal problems made trains slow

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 4:15 pm

At 1:44 p.m., the MBTA reported delays of up to 15 minutes on the Red Line due to signal problems at Harvard.

Group of Jewish Harvard students sue the school, charging it is rife with anti-Semitism

By adamg - 1/10/24 - 11:49 pm

A group of Jewish students have sued Harvard University, alleging discrimination from top to bottom against Jews. Read more.

Man pleads guilty to role in Harvard extortion plot that included showing up on campus with a bag full of bottle rockets and Roman candles

By adamg - 1/10/24 - 10:35 pm

Webcam captured Giordani carrying explosives and wires onto Havard Science Center plaza.

A New Hampshire man who said he was answering a Craigslist ad to deliver items to a man's son at Harvard University pleaded guilty today to a federal charge that he knew he was involved in something illegal but failed to alert authorities. Read more.

Brooklyn Dodgers fan from Jamaica Plain sentenced to five years on his third bank-robbery conviction

By adamg - 1/8/24 - 3:11 pm

Shabazz in Dodgers cap and with platinum-blond hair

Surveillance photos via FBI.

A Jamaica Plain man who wore a Brooklyn Dodgers cap over his platinum-blond hair was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison last week for robbing a TD Bank branch on Mass. Ave. in Harvard Square on May 2, 2022. Read more.

Braced for trouble

By adamg - 12/18/23 - 9:19 am

Carol Beggy found that at least one Harvard Square property owner was ready for flooding.

Former Harvard professor dies at 100

By adamg - 11/29/23 - 9:45 pm

Henry Kissinger, who earned BA, MA and PhD degrees at Harvard then stayed on as professor of government and international affairs before leaving for a job in the Nixon administration, where he helped overthrow a democratically elected government in one country and oversaw B-52 carpet bombing in another, died today.

Review: A 'death match' literary battle at the Brattle

By Sasha Patkin - 11/22/23 - 9:35 am

Adrian Todd Zuniga hosting Boston's 17th Literary Death Match.

When I think of a literary reading, I think of cardigan sweaters, stuffy rooms, and restrained academic earnestness. When I think of a death match, I think of an all-out, no holds barred, brutal and unholy spectacle.

So if I hear of something called a "Literary Death Match," there's a 100 percent chance I'll attend. Read more.

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