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...tenants living at the corner of Broadway and Prescott Streets are particularly upset about the fact that the wall facing their building will have two-foot-high slits in it, which will allow automobile noise and fumes to be blown toward their apartments. The tenants have been complaining to Harvard about the garage since early this fall...
Last June, Harvard sent the Prescott Street tenants a letter informing them of the plans for the garage. In the letter, Harvard said that it was being built in compliance with Cambridge zoning ordinances requiring the provision of off-the-street parking for all new institutional buildings...
...letter added that the prevailing winds in warm weather are from west to east, and would cause the fumes to escape through a wall not facing the Prescott Street building...
...bomb blew out a 10-by-5 foot section of a Plexiglass-block wall from the Prescott Street side of the building, and triggered a small fire on the first floor...
...squeeze 'em in" Plan. This plan begins with the fact that approximately 50 additional spaces (beyond those used this year) can be "found" in the Yard for next year by a combination of squeezing (turning triples into quads), using Dudley House's part of Wiggles worth, and turning 8 Prescott Street into a dorm. In addition, some 40 additional spaces can be found at Radcliffe, by both squeezing and converting unused dorm kitchens into student rooms. Thus it is possible, just in terms of the number of rooms and the number of bodies, and not because of any kind...