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Residents know what they want but, by comparison with other Cambridge advocacy, the effort in Agassiz is an understated...
...slow-and-steady Agassiz approach has proved itself in past battles with Harvard. Goldberg recalls an effort more than two decades ago to keep the University from tearing down homes in the neighborhood. That struggle came even before she herself became involved in Agassiz activism (at the time, she explains, she had young children...
Community activists in neighborhoods around the city still talk about that victory, when Agassiz forced Harvard to pay for a new community center. And Goldberg said the neighborhood has not let down its guard...
These days Goldberg and her neighbors are upset over Harvard’s proposals to expand science buildings in Agassiz and remove the Peabody Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology from their neighborhood. They’ve started a petition drive this spring to keep the museums...
Recently she joined several other ANC members to form ACID—the Agassiz Committee on the Impacts of Development. The new group aims to counter Harvard’s ongoing efforts to clear space in Agassiz for more science offices...