Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until recently this stretch of Mass. Ave. between Harvard and Central Square was a self-contained neighborhood, with quiet restaurants and bars, its own movie theater and small, local businesses catering to the area's residents...
...apartment buildings are still there, and some small businesses still hold on to their leases, competing with the video and furniture stores for space. But while the old and the new seem to be peacefully coexisting, the neighborhood itself has taken on a different flavor, area business owners and community activists...
Although Sally R. Alcorn of the Harvard Square Business Association says she doesn't think the neighborhood's character will be swallowed up, the number--and type--of new stores indicate the depth of the change...
Alcorn says that the area is still neighborhood-oriented. "Whenever you have a drugstore and a deli in the area, those are conveniences that residents are grateful for," she says...
Your recent article on the Phillips Brooks House Association and the House and Neighborhood Development programs portrayed an inaccurate and incomplete picture of PBHA and its interaction with HAND...