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...Deval L. Patrick ’78 to take decisive action against urban violence in Boston. The event, which BSA President Sarah Lockridge-Steckel ’09 described as a cross between a vigil and a press conference, brought 25 Harvard undergraduates to a basketball court in Washington Park, Roxbury last night. Echoing an open letter she sent the governor last Friday, Lockridge-Steckel said Patrick has not done enough to fight crime in black communities. “We want him to give an address detailing his strategy for measurably reducing black-on-black crime...
Stonehouse wants to construct a 5,000 sq. ft. residence on the park, which has been undeveloped since the adjacent houses were built...
...houses wrapped around the green were built by Harvard as part of the “Garden City” architectural movement, which integrated open space into urban landscapes. The homes first went on the open market in 1972, and a single resident gained rights to the park soon thereafter...
That resident sold the park late last month to Stonehouse—which is owned by architects David T. Perry and Peter E. Madsen ‘67—for $850,000. Perry and Madsen did not respond to phone calls seeking comment last night...
...Reagan v. Brissey, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 2005 that a park at the center of a mid-19th century housing development cannot be built upon because the way in which the development was marketed implied that the space would never be sold...