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Legislators note MBTA steps to mitigate red line shutdowns
By admin
Published: November 10, 2011 at 11:59 AM
Replacement shuttle service will run more frequently than the normal red line schedule, MBTA officials say, and stations will remain open, allowing people to wait for the shuttle buses inside.
VCs put $4 million on expansion of Alewife startup Modo Labs
By Marc Levy
Published: November 2, 2011 at 01:51 PM
Modo Labs, a maker of smartphone apps based on open-source software that are serving businesses and universities around the world — including a notable one right here in Cambridge, namely Harvard — got $4 million in venture capital Tuesday.
MBTA says it’s increasing publicity for red line shutdowns
By Marc Levy
Published: October 26, 2011 at 01:34 PM
If you feel taken by surprise by the news of five months of weekend shutdowns for the T stops at Porter, Davis and Alewife, you’re not alone.
Faces sign comes down for apartments, end of an era long past due
By Marc Levy
Published: October 19, 2011 at 06:21 PM
The sign came down Wednesday at the old Faces nightclub on Route 2, marking the start of redevelopment at a site languishing since the club closed in 1990.
Council resists pre-election zoning vote, tells neighbors to wait
By Marc Levy
Published: October 17, 2011 at 10:20 PM
Residents urged city councillors to help stop a looming surge in traffic and density, but councillors told them they should wait and rejected an attempt to handle the issue before the Nov. 8 election.
Pouf! An importer transforms herself at Alewife
By Marc Levy
Published: October 7, 2011 at 05:15 PM
A glamorous popup store has replaced a high-end importer with more affordable goods and fashions from Asia, with a showroom manager becoming an import and fashion entrepreneur.
Four citizen petitions take on developers Wednesday
By Marc Levy
Published: September 6, 2011 at 12:24 PM
Four public hearings Wednesday could change the law on four significant issues, including affordable-housing rules for apartment and condo projects and giving the city the power to fine law-breaking developers.
Officials will ask investigation of Area IV charity
By Marc Levy
Published: June 8, 2011 at 09:00 AM
The attorney general will be asked to investigate the spending of $1.6 million and suspicious transfer of land at Moore and Harvard streets by a community group in Area IV.
Sheriff’s sergeant faces drug charge; ATM scam stopped
By Marc Levy
Published: May 3, 2011 at 02:54 PM
A sergeant working in the mostly empty jail building in East Cambridge has been arraigned Tuesday on cocaine-trafficking charges, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said.
Elevator, snow are minuses; kiosk may yet be subtracted
By Marc Levy
Published: March 21, 2011 at 05:01 PM
Just as a new round of snowstorms arrived to complicate driving in the area — on the first day of spring — elevator improvements have arrived at the Porter Square T stop on the red line to complicate mass transit.