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With campaigning for the November elections already underway, the Council took on two other hotbed issues at the meeting—the Harvard-focused rezoning of the Riverside neighborhood and the controversial effort by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to sell the air rights above the Porter Square railroad tracks to a housing developer...
...complicate the matter further, Harvard Square lies at the convergence of three different police jurisdictions. The Cambridge Police Department holds primary jurisdiction for the streets and most commercial and residential buildings in the area. The MBTA Police preside over the Harvard Square T stop. HUPD is responsible for Harvard Yard and all of the University’s buildings in the Square, including the Holyoke Center where Okyere used to spend much of her time...
...taxi cab driver reported that he picked up a black female at the Braintree MBTA stop and drove her to the Holiday Inn Express. The suspect stated that she needed to go inside and get money. According to the driver, she then went inside, but she never returned, leaving the driver with a fare...
Officials from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) also threatened to take the land from Harvard by eminent domain if the yard—long eyed as a site for commuter-rail storage—was not given adequate protections by the University...
Galvin stopped the deal at the last minute, as lawyers for Harvard, the Turnpike and the MBTA were assembling the sale...