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...early 1962, negotiations between Harvard and what was then the Massachusetts Transit Authority (MTA) over the possible sale of the what was then called the Bennett St. MTA Yards were finally getting serious after at least five years of dickering and half-hearted discussion. The general manager of MTA indicated that he would recommend that its Board of Directors sell the 12-acre site and President Pusey made official Harvard's offer to purchase the land at its market value plus an additional $1 million...
...after a headline reading, "Pusey, MTA Officials Boost Hopes/For Purchase of Bennett St. Yards," appeared in The Crimson, an outcry erupted from Cambridge City officials and residents. Former City Councilor Daniel J. Hayes, blasting Harvard's "land-grab plan," called on the city council to have the land declared an open blighted area under the Urban Renewal Act and to purchase it to ensure that Harvard could...
...arms because of their fear that Harvard would continue expanding and increasing its domination of Cambridge and because of their resentment that land owned by Harvard and used for educational purposes is not taxable. (Despite the fact that the property was not taxed when it was owned by MTA either...
...there have been changes and agreements since 1962 between each of the parties that have helped to make coexistence a little more pleasant. Although the fate of the old MTA (now MBTA) Yards across Boylston St. from Eliot House is still a touchy subject for both Harvard and the City and the MBTA is finally scheduled to vacate the land this week, the sharp tension between city and university has eased on other fronts since that time...
...workable parking plan together is not one to plan a whole academic-tourist complex. A plan for shuttlebuses from the other side of the river was little more than an idea pulled out of the air. The library people are likewise foolish to hope for peripheral parking near future MTA stations when extension of the Red Line is certainly years away...