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Current and former occupants of Plympton Street are divided over a proposal to rename the street in honor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former managing editor of The Harvard Crimson David L. Halberstam ’55, who would have turned 74 yesterday...
...David was a great journalist, and some of his earliest great days were at Plympton Street,” Clymer said. “But the [street] name has identified The Crimson since far longer than David’s tenure...
...Paras D. Bhayani ’09 recently wrote a letter to the City Council, asking that the council refrain from renaming the street. Glenn said that while he is in favor of honoring Halberstam, he and other past and present Crimson reporters are very attached to the 14 Plympton St. address...
According to the Cambridge Historical Society, the street, originally called Chestnut St., was already renamed once in 1875 for Dr. Sylvanus Plympton, who owned a house that used to occupy the block between Plympton St. and Linden...
Quincy House Master Lee Gehrke said he had yet to hear about the proposed name change, but said that he was concerned it might confuse people looking for buildings on Plympton...