Poorer Square

By Marc Levy

Published: May 21, 2004

Work began this week on improvements to street-level elements of the Porter Square T stop, the beginning of not-dramatic-enough changes to the square itself. Typical of Porter (which is also getting — brace yourself — a Radio Shack), the changes are more about traffic patterns than making Porter a destination rather than an efficient way [...]

Funk off

By Marc Levy

Published: May 20, 2004

Cambridge has been annexed by The Improper Bostonian in its “30 Reasons Why We Love Boston,” a list that includes Harvard Square.
Before you start whining that Harvard Square is in Cambridge, not Boston, the piece reads, let’s get one thing straight: Cambridge is just an outcropping of Boston. In fact, when Harvard was founded, the [...]