Word: jfk
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...walk is made especially awful after a winter rain, as the cars on JFK Street race past with no regard for the lowly pedestrians they drench on the walking sides of the street. Even on an early fall afternoon, it’s brutal—the sun beats down on your neck as you try to make it for the kickoff of the week’s football action (thank you, Harvard Stadium, for your lack of lights and early start times...
There’s an old family legend that my grandfather boxed with JFK back in 1937, and that Grandpa completely kicked his ass. Technical Knock-Out in the first round. Ivy League playboy millionaire teeth scattered over the ring, Kennedy babbling out “I-ah, er-ah...” in a half-conscious state...
...have no idea whether or not the story is true, but it’s a delight to be able to jog along JFK Street and think to myself, “Pssh. This guy might have a damn street named after him, but I used to get birthday presents from a dude who totally annihilated him in a bout of fisticuffs...
...crashed into the Kirkland House library—said to be the oldest building in Cambridge—when a valet lost control of a patron’s car while making a left turn onto JFK Street around 8:30 p.m. last night. Five fire engines, an ambulance, a tow truck and a handful of police cars—all with lights flashing—cordoned off two blocks of JFK Street, as about 50 students and passersby looked on and a local news crew darted about the scene. The driver, whom police would not identify by name...
Annie K. Grayson ’09 said that she and two friends were walking down JFK Street past the Citizens Bank when they saw the victim lying face down on the ground in the bank—only moments after he had escaped the T station—surrounded by a flurry of police and firemen...