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...Store24 is one of many long-time Square establishments that have closed this year. Popular bar Grafton Street and independent video rental shop Videopros both closed their doors due to rising rents...
Room parties can be fun or loud and sweaty, but with 1 a.m. cop shutdowns the norm, the quest for inebriation moves elsewhere. A recent crackdown on fake IDs at the Crimson Sports Grille has left first-years wandering. And Grafton Street’s closure last weekend is limiting bar social life...
...most restaurants by 11 p.m. You can’t rent a video at midnight, even on the weekend. A handful of late-night establishments are hanging on—Pinocchio’s, Tommy’s and the Kong. But as the closing of Grafton Street last week reminds us, even the most popular locales aren’t safe from the gentrifying forces sweeping the Square...
...Grafton will likely reopen in the fall in the location formerly occupied by the Bow and Arrow Pub, a prospect which we await with great anticipation. In the meantime, however, its closing serves as yet another reminder of the gentrification of Harvard Square, the replacement of beloved establishments with banks and PacSuns and impersonal Abercrombies. The trend is one we would not like to see continue...
...raise our glasses to Grafton for a battle well fought, for a new beginning next year and for the hope of a more friendly Square in the future. Cheers...