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...Recently, Jake and his neighbors have watched helplessly as their community is changed by outside forces, as Harvard expands into Allston-Brighton. Although the university promises visions of a refurbished neighborhood, residents must suffer through the 50-year process of producing an unafforable, gentrified neighborhood...
...Jake has too much on his plate to spend a lot of time worrying about insults. Instead, he passes me a flier that offers information to residents of Allston-Brighton on dealing with the escalating rat population. “There used to be bunny rabbits in our neighborhood,” Jake remembered wistfully. Now there are rats that rummage through the trash and spread disease...
...wreaked havoc on University finances, has also served to rally diverse community interests around a common cause. “Where I think everyone has really come together lately is to say the Science Complex really can’t be stopped,” said Aaron MacDonald, an Allston-Brighton resident for 11 years. The University has said it will wait to re-examine the Science Complex’s construction pace until year’s end when its fiscal situation is more clear. Some residents see the intervening months as an opportunity to be proactive and encourage...
...Where I think everyone has really come together lately is to say the Science Complex really can’t be stopped,” said Aaron MacDonald, an Allston-Brighton resident for 11 years...
Amidst wrangling over potential construction slowdowns at last week’s Allston-Brighton neighborhood task force meeting, one resident asked the group to turn its attention to a specific concern: a local rat infestation that some residents say has resulted from excavation work at Harvard’s planned Allston Science Complex...