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Hanging In There: Small Business Survival During A Pandemic
When COVID shutdown Cambridge’s iconic Harvard Square, college students were sent home and tourists largely vanished. Small business there depends on both. But the majority of those small business has
Consider This: Harvard Square Is Slowly Coming Back To Life
When COVID shutdowns began last year, students were sent home and tourists largely vanished. A place like Harvard Square depends on both.
Harvard Square Hotel Could Be Caught Up in Bill and Melinda Gates Divorce
The Gateses, through a secretive investment firm, own Harvard Square’s Charles Hotel, which stands just a few blocks from Harvard Yard…
New life for an old ‘Garage?’ Plans filed to remake a Harvard Square landmark
Another landmark building in Harvard Square may soon be undergoing major changes.
On Brattle Street, a jazzy serenade from a bunch of Squares
Harvard Square has been a premiere spot for street performers for decades, but it took the COVID-era to produce a musical effort as enterprising as Squares in the Square.
Hasty Pudding honors Viola Davis as Woman of the Year in virtual ceremony
Hasty Pudding Theatricals honored Viola Davis as its Woman of the Year Thursday night, sans the usual fanfare.
Rediscovering the Square
New businesses emerge and old favorites awaken after a long pandemic year…
Cambridge’s Y2Y Harvard Square is helping homeless youth access ‘critical’ stimulus checks
There are a plethora of extra steps that have to be taken for people facing homelessness to qualify for stimulus payments, and, without help or internet access, the steps to gain
Markers and Reminders: MLK to #BLM
Cambridge Forum partners with the Harvard Square Business Association to examine Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and the Black Lives Matter movement’s impact on the history of Cambridge, Boston