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Harvard’s expansion plans in Allston have traditionally been met with heated dialogue and suspicion from residents of the local community. Yet on Monday, at the second meeting of two public review sessions held by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, talks between the university and its neighbor barely seemed to simmer...
...pledge serves as a reminder of Harvard’s commitment to community building and redevelopment in Allston. Moreover, a concession of this scale is rare and generous. The last such contribution of this magnitude occurred in 1998, when the university donated land for an Allston branch of the Boston Public Library...
...Harvard’s proposed land concession is very admirable, and we look forward to a more formal and concrete agreement between Harvard and the City of Boston in the coming days...
David Luberoff, the executive director of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and an expert on the city’s transportation system, said that the report’s findings are “serious” and “sobering,” as “the Red Line is a hugely important part of the Boston transportation network...
...with a ticker-tape parade - as well as the U.S. Olympic team in 1924 and Charles Lindbergh in 1927. By then, of course, the tradition had spread: thousands of Chicagoans showered boxer Gene Tunney with paper that year when he arrived in the city to defend his world title; Boston and St. Louis have also held ticker-tape parades, though New York remains their heartland...