Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back outside, a block down Tremont, the Chickering Piano Factory looms above everything else in the neighborhood. When constructed in 1853, the Chickering was second in size only to the US capitol building in Washington. Jonas Chickering's factory stopped crafting pianos in 1929 and more recently, the building was converted into low-rent apartments for struggling artists...
...This was a time when Harvard was expanding itsreal estate holdings into the surroundingneighborhood," Duehay says; upset with theescalating rents that accompanied Universityexpansion, local neighborhood activistscommandeered Harvard's 1970 commencement ceremonyin protest...
...Imagine it: All of a sudden, instead of aquiet, residential neighborhood, you'd live by abustling academic building," he says...
Kottas said he hoped to extend HMUN's current financial aid program to sponsor an entire school delegation from "a financially disadvantaged neighborhood" in the local area...
...Bekken is on the Board of Directors of the Central Square Neighborhood Coalition and a member of the steering committee of the Lucy Parsons Center...