Word: pitkin
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...well-known neighborhood activist John Pitkin quickly withdrew, saying he needed Mid-Cambridge to support the agreement before he could sign—and saying that the benefits Harvard offered were not enough...
Incumbent Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 edges out neighborhood activist John Pitkin by 59 votes for the ninth and final seat on the Cambridge City Council. After a preliminary count on election night, Reeves had held only a 12-vote lead...
...John Pitkin is a Cambridge resident and president of the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association. In 1991, he served on the Cambridge Mayor’s Committee on University-Community Relationships...
More than perhaps any other community activist in Cambridge, Pitkin remains aware of what’s going on beyond his own neighborhood. Of Riverside, for example, he says that the neighborhood along the Charles, which is home to many of Harvard’s dorms, has been “hardest hit” by Harvard expansion...
...though they face the same threats, Pitkin says, neighborhood efforts are largely disjointed...