Julia Child was born in Pasadena, California, but spent some of her most formative years in New England. The culinary icon graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1934.
She took up permanent residence in Cambridge from 1961 until 2001. Her Cambridge home, located at 103 Irving Street in Harvard Square, became the set for three of her television shows.
The home kitchen became so synonymous with American culinary culture that the real kitchen is now on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, in Washington, DC. Child donated it upon moving out of the house and back to California in the 2000s. Today, the Harvard Square home is an occupied private residence.
Child lived in one of Cambridge’s most exciting neighborhoods with evolving gastronomy, so she indulged in the local food scene, becoming a regular at Harvest. The restaurant, hidden behind an unnamed brick walkway that adopted the name “The Architects’ Corner,” opened in 1975. The spot drew in visitors with its neon sign and vibrant Marimekko prints. The restaurant is rumored to have been Julia Child’s favorite dining destination, regularly visiting Harvest.
In 1997, Harvest reopened under new management but remains one of the area’s most historic restaurants. Several prominent chefs trained at Harvest before opening their own restaurants.
Economic contributions by foreign students can be felt far and wide across the United States, and often last much longer than their college years, said experts.
People dine at Grendel’s Den Restaurant & Bar, a pub that has called Harvard Square home for more than 50 years.
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: Small businesses near Harvard University are worried about a loss of revenue as United States President Donald Trump’s tussle with the Ivy League school over international students continues.
Just outside the university campus is Harvard Square, a bustling cultural and commercial hub with a lively mix of eateries, cafes, bookstores and other shops.
Kari Kuelzer, owner of Grendel’s Den Restaurant & Bar – a pub that has called the square home for more than 50 years – told CNA that students account for a third of her business.
Kuelzer said she is unsure if her pub, which was opened by her parents, can survive if Harvard is forced to shut its doors to foreign students.
“Where are we going to get those dollars? They’re not going to just magically materialise,” she said.
Like Grendel’s Den, many establishments in the area are locally-owned and rely heavily on students as a key source of income.
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: Small businesses near Harvard University are worried about a loss of revenue as United States President Donald Trump’s tussle with the Ivy League school over international students continues.
Just outside the university campus is Harvard Square, a bustling cultural and commercial hub with a lively mix of eateries, cafes, bookstores and other shops.
Kari Kuelzer, owner of Grendel’s Den Restaurant & Bar – a pub that has called the square home for more than 50 years – told CNA that students account for a third of her business.
Kuelzer said she is unsure if her pub, which was opened by her parents, can survive if Harvard is forced to shut its doors to foreign students.
“Where are we going to get those dollars? They’re not going to just magically materialise,” she said.
Like Grendel’s Den, many establishments in the area are locally-owned and rely heavily on students as a key source of income.
IMPACT ON LOCAL BUSINESSES
There are around 6,800 international students at Harvard, making up about a quarter of the university’s student body.
The Harvard Square Business Association, which represents more than 300 stores in the district, is worried about the impact on its members if Trump successfully restricts foreign nationals from studying at the elite school.
People walk next to shops at Harvard Square.
When asked about how retailers are preparing for the possibility of fewer students, Denise Jillson, executive director of the association, said that shop owners may resort to adopting measures used during the COVID-19 pandemic, when there was less footfall.
“Reduction of staff, reduction of hours, less choices on the menu,” she said.
Beyond Harvard, experts said contributions by foreign students can be felt far and wide across the nation, and often last much longer than their college years.
Data from the Association of International Educators (NAFSA) revealed that more than 1.1 million international students in the US contributed nearly US$44 billion to its economy last year, including spending on tuition, housing, food and entertainment.
Foreign students typically pay full tuition fees, making them a vital revenue stream for schools faced with declining domestic enrolment – which, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, fell 15 per cent between 2010 and 2021.
Barnet Sherman, a corporate finance professor at Boston University, said that roughly one job is created for every three international students, making up about 350,000 jobs in the country.
“These are not just jobs in larger urban centres like Boston, but across the country, because nearly every city and town across America has a school, either a community college or a local state college, and there are a lot of international students coming,” he added.
He noted that 25 per cent of the billion-dollar companies on the US stock exchanges were started by international students.
“(The) implication is that it’s not just the money that is potentially being lost now, but the multiplier effect of this money over time and the number of jobs and wealth that international students have created and will continue to create,” he added.
It accused the university of allowing anti-Semitism to flourish on campus and discriminating in its enrolment and hiring practices – claims that Harvard has strongly denied.
A view of Harvard University.
The White House on May 22 tried to revoke the university’s ability to enrol international students. A day later, a judge temporarily blocked the move.
On Wednesday (Jun 4), Trump signed an executive order suspending the entry of foreign nationals seeking to study or participate in exchange programmes at Harvard.
The dispute between Trump and the nation’s oldest, wealthiest and most prestigious university is still ongoing.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also previously announced the federal government will “aggressively” revoke the visas of Chinese students nationwide, especially those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday, blocking nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University.
In the order, Trump said that the school was no longer a trustworthy steward of international students.
The move is the latest in a months-long feud between the Ivy League university and the Trump administration.
In April, Trump attempted numerous times to block Harvard’s billions of dollars in federal funding after claiming that the school “fundamentally failed to protect American students and faculty from antisemitic violence and harassment,” according to a Trump administration letter written to the school’s president.
“Harvard will not surrender its core, legally-protected principles out of fear of unfounded retaliation by the federal government,” Garber wrote.
Archon Fung, the director at Harvard’s Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, said he felt a flurry of emotions after hearing news of Trump’s executive order.
“When I first heard the news that Harvard wouldn’t be able to enroll international students, I felt confused and a little bit nervous,” Fung said.
Yonas Nuguse, a student in Ethiopia who endured the Tigray conflict, said winning admission to Harvard University fulfilled a longtime goal.
“The war affected me a great deal, and when I found out the news that I was accepted to Harvard, I was ecstatic. I knew it was a proud moment for my family, teachers, mentors and friends, who were instrumental in my achievement,” Nuguse said.
Now, he and other admitted students around the world are anxiously tracking the school’s feud with the Trump administration.
“I hope the situation is temporary and I can enroll on time to go on and realize my dream far from reality in Ethiopia,” Nuguse said.
Another Ethiopian student, Addis Ababa, was set to begin studying at Harvard in the fall, and also realizes that may no longer be the case.
“I hope it will be resolved, and hopefully, I will attend the college next fall,” Ababa said.
The executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, Denise Jillson, said the order will have a profound impact on the community as well.
“When Harvard hurts, we all hurt, and when Harvard is successful, we’re all successful,” Jillson said. “When you think about the international students, and what they bring in terms of their cultures, their food, their language, the way they dress, their curiosity, that is as devastating to us as the economic impact.”
In a statement, Harvard said that the order is “yet another illegal retaliatory step taken by the Administration in violation of Harvard’s First Amendment rights. Harvard will continue to protect its international students.”
The executive order came the same day as a travel ban, similar to a ban enacted during Trump’s first term.
The ban, which goes into effect Monday, will prevent citizens of 12 countries, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, from entering the United States.
Citizens from seven other countries, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela, will face heightened restrictions.
“One would say that’s preposterous. What we say is it’s equally preposterous to have the tunnel already built and not take the opportunity to examine its potential,” said Jillson.
The executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association is hoping to transform an unused tunnel underneath Harvard Square into an entertainment venue.
“This tunnel, this piece here from about Mount Auburn St. down to Bennett is completely abandoned,” she said.
The 116-year-old tunnel, once home to MBTA’s Red Line, has been deserted for 40 years. What some may see as a dilapidated space, Jillson sees as an opportunity for growth.
“And the nicest thing about it is there are no columns so it’s just an arch. It’s about 22 feet high. At its widest, it’s about 58 feet wide, and it’s just wide open.”
The Cambridge City Council approved a $70,000 proposal to study the space’s potential. In the meantime, Jillson commissioned a designer to create mockups demonstrating how the space can be used for art exhibits, TED talks, speaking engagements, and of course concerts. And she already has a performer in mind.
By Nick Peace, Dept. Photo Editor & Video Editor / May 31, 2025
Crowded around a multi-colored mountain of shirts and pants, thrifters of all ages, each with their own unique style, sifted through piles of clothes at The People’s Party block party.
Drawn by the promise of $5 clothing piles, food vendors, and live music, thousands of thrifters took over Church Street in Harvard Square on May 17, 2025, for a block party featuring over 100 vendors in collaboration with Select Markets.
The event, sponsored by and held in partnership with The Boston Globe, Flare 360, Boston.com, DX Arcade, SoundCloud, Topo Chico, and the Harvard Square Business Association, aimed to create an open-air celebration of community, culture, and creativity.
“We wanted to create something to give back to the community and have people come out and have a great vibe,” said Edgard Arty, one of the co-producers of The People’s Party. Arty worked on the Block Party, mainly focusing on setting up events, parties, and nightlife.
By blending shopping, music, and food vendors, the all-day street festival was a hybrid of a vintage market and a celebration of Cambridge culture. The Church Street parking lot held both booths from local vendors and event sponsors, as well as a stage with rotating live DJs. Vendors sold everything from 70s to Y2K-style clothes to homemade candles and crocheted flowers.
Jason Suzuki, a 20-year-old vendor from Boston, was selling custom airbrushed shirts, something he’s been doing for four years. Each piece of clothing is customized with designs requested by his customers, something which Suzuki said was his favorite part.
“I am helping their vision come to life,” said Suzuki, as he lightly sprayed the outline of a new design for a customer. “It’s simple but can make someone so happy. That’s one of the best parts about it.”
Suzuki, who had worked in similar pop-up markets for a year and a half in Boston, said, “This is the best one. I can pull up with my airbrush and have a good time.”
The People’s Party has been in development for the past year. The event is the successor to the music and cannabis-centered Dx420 Block Party held in April 2024.
Despite the organizers’ initial concerns about the weather, the first People’s Party went off without a hitch.
“It’s been phenomenal,” Arty, the co-producer, said. “The weather held out. The street’s looking great. The vintage vendors are having a great time…we want to do this for the people.”
The crowded streets caused many to take refuge on the sidewalks. Kristina Ocasio, a junior architecture major at Wentworth, stood on the sidewalk, staring into the constantly moving stream of people.
“The middle is very crowded; it’s nice to walk around the outside,” Ocasio said. She attends similar events, and said the vintage market was larger and more crowded.“It’s in a nice area, so I can’t really complain.”
In the chaotic mix of jubilant thrifters on Church Street, Emerson students with Dreamworldgirl Zine walked around, asking pressing Boston fashion questions to passers-by.
Dreamworldgirl Zine, a print and digital multimedia magazine for all things girlhood, was created by recent Emerson graduate Daphne Bryant ‘25. Bryant currently serves as co-editor of the magazine.
In collaboration with Select markets, members of Dreamworldgirl Zine conducted on-the-street interviews with fashionable thrifters.
“We thought it’d be cool to collab and bring our identity of Dreamworldgirl into, not only the questions, but also the interviews themselves,” said Isabelle Galgano, a junior communications major and co-editor of the Dreamworldgirl Zine.
Galgano responded to the claim that Boston has no fashion scene, saying, “I feel like this has proven them wrong. It’s great to see a Boston-based org doing some awesome stuff.”
Looking to the future of the event, Arty explained, ”As [The People’s Party] grows, we want it to be a greater and greater legacy event for the City of Cambridge.”
Thrifters pick out clothes at a $20 fill-a-bag clothing pile (Nick Peace/ Beacon Staff).Jason Suzuki airbrushes a customer’s jeans at The People’s Party (Nick Peace/ Beacon Staff).Jason Suzuki working at his table during The People’s Party (Nick Peace/ Beacon Staff).Thrifters looking through racks of clothes (Nick Peace/ Beacon Staff).A vendor stands at his table looking out at passersby (Nick Peace/ Beacon Staff).Party-goers stand around a prize wheel in the hopes of winning free merch (Nick Peace/ Beacon Staff).
By Spencer Buell Globe Staff,Updated May 29, 2025, 4:04 a.m.
One corner of the abandoned MBTA tunnel under Harvard Square, which is being explored as a potential new live events venue.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
CAMBRIDGE — There is a damp dustiness down here, in the abandoned tunnel underneath Harvard Square.
Aside from the thin rays filtering through a sidewalk grate, there isn’t much light where we’re standing, 20 feet below the beer taps of Charlie’s Kitchen and the Harvard grads snapping pictures in front of the Kennedy School of Government. Only the sound of traffic overhead occasionally breaks the subterranean silence. There are no signs of life, not even rats.
Could this space, which few people have laid eyes on in more than 40 years, come alive with music and be the newest — and most unusual — addition to Boston nightlife? An under-the-ground, over-the-top, idea, for sure. But through the light of our flashlights, the possibilities seem to expand.
A local real estate mogul has long argued the music venue is not as far-fetched as it sounds on the surface. And now, he’s found a receiving audience among elected officials in Cambridge, who are exploringwhether it is, in fact, possible, and, if so, what it all might cost.
The vacant MBTA tunnel beneath Harvard Square is being eyed as a potential live event venue. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
Although hidden from people driving or walking atop it, the tunnel runs between Brattle Square and the Kennedy School.
One section is used by the T for storage and for housing exhaust ducts and a high-voltage power station.
Another, a long straightaway under Eliot Street, is unused altogether.
When Denise Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, first saw that abandoned section on a tour in 2019, she couldn’t believe her eyes. Descending down a utility stairwell, she expected to find it falling apart, or marred by a jumble of view-obstructing columns.
What she saw instead was a sturdy rectangle of wide open space that was, by her count, about 300 feet long, 22 feet high, and 58 across at its widest.
“It was pristine,” said Jillson, “as far as tunnels go.”
John DiGiovanni, the real estate mogul who brought music venue The Sinclair to Harvard Square, said his jaw dropped.
“Whoa!” he remembers thinking. “Where do you put the stage?”
Ever since, the two have been boosters of a live entertainment venue in the tunnel, showing it off to developers, officials, and business leaders. They even paid for a 3D scan of the space and hired a designer to create mockups of how concerts, TED talks, Harvard speaking engagements, art exhibits, and all kinds of events here might look.
Rendering of a potential live event venue in an abandoned MBTA tunnel under Harvard Square, as imagined by the Harvard Square Business Association. (Bruner/Cott Architects and Harvard Square Business Association)Bruner/Cott Architects and Harvard Square Business AssociationAnother rendering of a potential live event venue.Bruner/Cott Architects and Harvard Square Business AssociationThe space may be able to offer concerts, TED talks, and art exhibits, among other events. Bruner/Cott Architects and Harvard Square Business Association
Let us here state the obvious:Turning a century-old underground tunnel, currently without utilities, into a space fit for hundreds in a partying mood, would be no easy feat. It certainly wasn’t designed with that in mind when it was built in 1909 for trains and buses to access a now-removed transit yard, nor when it was sealed shut long ago in 1980 during the extension of the Red Line. Right now, the only access is through narrow corridors and down utility hatches or through a gap between a pair of exhaust fans the size of jet engines.
Even building above ground in Harvard Square seems to take forever. The renovation of the small plaza atop the Harvard MBTA stop has taken years, and millions of dollars, to complete.
But DiGiovanni and Jillson believe turning this unused portion of the decommissioned tunnel complex into something wondrousis too good an opportunity to pass up in a neighborhood they believe needs more live events to draw in visitors.
“It would be preposterous for me to say, ‘dig a tunnel under these streets and create a venue.’ But it’s equally preposterous that you wouldn’t study how you can transform this one,” DiGiovanni said. “It’s already excavated!”
A view of one corner of the tunnel, lit by a flashlight.David L. Ryan/Globe StaffVents, hidden in plain sight, lead down into the vacant MBTA tunnel.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
Cambridge is starting that process now. Earlier in May, the City Council voted in favor of spending $72,000 to get a formal estimate for an engineering study.
How much a study of that kind would cost is unknown, but it is expected to be many hundreds of thousands more.
Who will pay for it is also an open question.
The tunnel is still owned by the MBTA, and Cambridge officials have expressed reluctance to invest large sums without buy-in from the T or other private investment.
Would the transit agency even be interested in becoming landlord to a nightclub or paying to have it refurbished so it can be sold? The T wouldn’t say.
But DiGiovanni believes there is good reason to do so, including that it could be a revenue source for the T at a time when it could use the money.
Much of the work of turning the tunnel into an entertainment destination would ultimately be done by a venue operator. Asked about the viability of a tunnel-based music venue, a spokesperson for AEG, which operates live event venues across the country, said it was “a little premature” to weigh in.
Still, the idea has some allure to people with experience in live events.
Ed Kane, owner of Boston nightclub and music venue company Big Night Entertainment and a Harvard alum who grew up locally, said it sounded on paper like a dream come true.
“It’s been a fantasy of mine forever,” he said. “Ever since I started nightlife I’ve dreamed of opening a place in an underground station.”
It wouldn’t necessarily be the first of its kind, according to the Harvard Square Business Association. In Washington, D.C., an abandoned subway tunnel in Dupont Circle was repurposed into an arts venue called Dupont Underground. A similar project repurposed a drinking water reservoir in Houston into a venue called The Cistern.
The primary question, according to DiGiovanni, is how many people a subterranean venue in Harvard Square could fit. Capacity would depend on the size of the usable space, and the points of egress that would need to be built into the Harvard Square streetscape to get people in and out quickly, he said.
The hidden MBTA tunnel can be accessed from a door in the Harvard busway.David L. Ryan/Globe StaffAnother access point to the tunnel is a hatch built into the sidewalk near the Harvard Kennedy School.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
He has crunched the numbers and believes it would need to host at least 800 in order to be worth it for the millions of dollars of investment required to get it up and running.
“What would be spectacular is a 1500-capacity venue,” he said.
There is certainly plenty of room down here in this big, long, dark tunnel under Harvard Square.
For now, there’s nothing but.
“What would be spectacular is a 1500-capacity venue,” John DiGiovanni said of the tunnel space.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
An abandoned tunnel, pictured here in 2021, below Harvard Square was used by MBTA until the Red Line was extended in the 1980s. Forty years later, some civic leaders want to explore turning it into an events and entertainment venue. (Courtesy of Denise Jillson)
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Tunnel vision: With limited opportunities to build up or out, some civic leaders in Harvard Square are looking to build down.Earlier this month, the Cambridge City Council advanced a plan to study the possibility of creating an entertainment venue in an MBTA tunnel that’s been abandoned for 40 years. While the idea sounds outlandish, “it would be equally sort of insane not to take a look at what the potential is,” Denise Jillson, the executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, told WBUR’s Amy Sokolow. “It could be an important asset to Harvard Square that’s been sitting fallow.”
Where is it? The tunnel dates back to the T’s pre-Red Line extension days, when trains terminated and turned around at Harvard Square. According to Jillson, who’s been in the tunnel herself, it runs underground from Brattle Square to the Harvard Kennedy School: “ If you are on Elliot Street in front of like the Harvard Square Hotel or Charlie’s Kitchen, the tunnel would be directly under your feet.”
Zoom in: Jillson says the tunnel has 22-foot-high arched ceilings, good acoustics and is relatively “pristine.” They’re hoping to get an engineering firm to test its structural integrity, air quality and other logistics. “You could envision a conference in the morning, a TED Talk in the afternoon and a concert in the evening,” she said. (Click here to see their renderings of what it could look like.)
Zoom out: It wouldn’t be the first abandoned subterranean space to be revived as an events space. Jillson’s group takes inspiration from other cities, like Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Underground and London’s Bankside Vaults.
The catch: While City Council approved $72,000 in funding to put out a request for proposals, Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang is leery about the costs of the feasibility study itself (not to mention any renovations). As Cambridge Day reported last week, Huang estimates an engineering firm could charge up to $1 million, and “who would fund that is unanswered.”
What’s next: Jillson predicts it’s “easily” a five-to-six-year project. Her group plans to spend the coming year working with the MBTA, which still owns the tunnel, on an agreement to access the space for the potential study.
RoadTrip N. via YelpGnomon Copy is closing in Harvard Square after more than 50 years.
After more than 50 years in business, Gnomon Copy closes its doors for good on Friday. A short walk from Gnomon Copy’s Harvard Square location is FlashPrint, which is acquiring the closing copy center.
Two MIT graduate students established Gnomon Copy in their dormitory in 1966, according to a 2006 profile in The Harvard Crimson, and went on to open nearly a dozen locations in college towns across New England and New York.
Gnomon Copy originally had two locations in Harvard Square: the location in operation until its closing this week at 1308 Massachusetts Ave. – for a time, it was at 1304 Massachusetts Ave., behind a storefront of large plate glass set into elaborately swirling art nouveau wood frames – and a second location at 99 Mount Auburn St. that was sold in the 1980s to Alan Shapiro.
Shapiro kept the space as a copy center and eventually renamed it FlashPrint.
“There were many copy centers in the area and as they went away, we acquired their business,” Shapiro said.
The owners of the final Gnomon Copy in Cambridge approached FlashPrint to see if Shapiro was interested in buying it too. Shapiro was not looking to buy – but made a deal to pay the Gnomon owners a commission for the business FlashPrint acquired from Gnomon clients over the next few years.
Beginning next week, the Gnomon Copy website, email, and phone number will forward to FlashPrint, and two employees will relocate there. Cambridge Day was unable to contact Gnomon Copy owners.
Gnomon Copy also has a location in Medford, which will shut at the end of the week.
Gnomon Copy played “an important role” in the community, but Harvard Square has “evolved and changed” a lot since the copy center was starting out, said Denise Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association. “Copy centers are still relevant, but [without] the demand that [they] used to have.”
The Gnomon Copy storefront on Massachusetts Avenue is owned by Harvard University. It’s not known what business opens in the space next.
Local business leaders in Harvard Square are concerned about the rising tension between the Trump administration and Harvard University.
“The business community around Harvard is very embedded with the university,” said Denise Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association. “They live side by side.”
The university’s students are a major source of neighborhood foot traffic and spending, according to Jillson. With the Trump administration cutting Harvard’s funding and trying to end enrollment for foreign students, Jillson said there’s a lot to worry about.
“Thinking about the square, thinking about the next few months, thinking about tourism, thinking about our businesses and the impact of the administration’s actions against the university — and not just Harvard, but what they’re doing relative to funding programs across our region here?” she said. “We’re concerned.”
The business community is watching for potential cuts to Harvard’s staff, too, as the school’s funding is slashed.
Brooke Garber owns Mint Julep, a women’s boutique, on Brattle Street known for its wide selection of clothing, jewelry and accessories. She says the Harvard campus community is a huge portion of her customer base from their first visit to tour the school through graduation day.
“They shop with us all the way through, right up until commencement — and then sometimes they stay,” Garber said.
Garber worries about the apparent standoff between the White House and Harvard escalating.
“Every day we say, could something crazier happen today? And every day something crazier happens,” she said. “Last week with the assault on the international students, it’s just unbelievable. And a lot of our customers are international and their families are, too, so I hope that it doesn’t come to that because it would be very sad for higher ed in general, but also for tourism in Boston and in the U.S.”
Mint Julep owner Brooke Garber said Harvard’s student population plays a huge role in her business.
Around the corner, Anna Shine owns and operates New England School of English, an English as a Second Language (ESL) program primarily for international students.
“My students spend a lot of money in Harvard Square, a lot of money in Boston and so money spent in Harvard Square is good for everyone, including Harvard. It keeps the businesses alive,” Shine said.
Shine, who is originally from the United Kingdom, says her four-week class typically enrolls about a dozen students who are immersed in local culture while enhancing their English skills.
“Whether you’re a Jew or an Arab, Black or white, when you’re in this environment there’s this environment of kindness and tolerance and acceptance, people come together, and there’s this magic that happens. The power of internationalism,” said Shine. “What happens to all the soft power? What happens to all of the goodwill that goes back to their countries?”
Jillson, who advocates for about 400 members of the Harvard Square Business Association, believes the community will persevere.
“As we look back over the COVID years, even further with the Great Recession, with the dot-com bubble, all of those are within a lifetime,” Jillson pointed out. “We know what that was like and our businesses were able to respond. And we will respond to this, and we will not be defeated, not by our own government.”
Cambridge Day reports on the idea of reusing a tunnel left over from the days when the Red Line ended in Harvard Square instead of continuing to Alewife. The tunnel runs between Mount Auburn and Eliot streets and the John F. Kennedy School.
