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...People are screaming, because MIT is renting this land to so many social agenices, and throwing them into the area in high concentration," James Caragines, a resident of Cambridgeport for over 50 years, says. "The problem centers are not supervised well. We would like to see the area deinstitutionalized," he adds...
...this end, the Cambridgeport Alliance has been holding monthly community hearings to discuss the development of the area and to consider rezoning it, although so far no legislative action has been taken...
Alewife, in the northwestern end of Cambridge, is, in sports, and industrial ghetto, 350-odd acres of cracking pavement, dead end streets and decaying factories. On the other side of the city, where Simplex Wire and Cable once dominated the Cambridgeport neighborhood, trash collects in vacant lots where giant pools of steel were stored. Crumbling, vacant brick warehouses stand silent; barbed wire fences guard nothing...
Spurred on by a noisy crowd of Cambridgeport residents, who aceused MIT of "blighting the area," the council also requested that the city's Community Development Department study possible rezoning of the area to attract blue-collar industry...
...Left unchecked, MIT will gain total control over what gets developed in Cambridgeport," Ilene Horowitz, who lives on Magazine St., said last night...