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Describing a loud and contentious meeting about the Sackler-Fogg bridge proposal in his typical understated manner, Pitkin says the issue “stirred people...
...Harvard’s growth didn’t become a focus of the MCNA president until around 1990, when Harvard tore down a former Gulf gas station and put up the Inn at Harvard, Pitkin says...
...Pitkin recalls that controversy surrounding the inn brought about a meeting of neighborhoods who put together an action plan...
...That really put [Harvard expansion] on the city’s screen in a different way than it had been before,” Pitkin says...
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...