The City Council voted 8-1 on Monday to ask the MBTA to reconsider a bench design some consider “hostile architecture” installed recently at Cambridge T stations.

This year has tested the limits of nonprofits. But as the Cambridge Nonprofit Coalition said throughout 2020, “Nonprofits Don’t Quit.”

If the obvious worst thing about this year was the coronavirus, the best thing is just as apparent: Our response to the pandemic as a city and as individuals.

There’s no suspense to naming the worst thing to happen to Cambridge this year: It’s the coronavirus. But we saw plenty of other disappointments and frustrations of 2020, even if some of them were worsened by the impacts of a pandemic.

Congress has approved $15 billion in disaster relief money for independent arts venues. At the nightclubs, comedy clubs and theaters that haven’t shut down entirely, it’s falling to owners and managers to figure out what the money will mean for them.

In a city of villages that can feel very distinct from each other, BioMed Realty made a choice in Kendall Square that offers a sense of connection: selecting Cedric Douglas and Julia Roth, artists also known as Vise and Julz, to paint a vent shaft in its Canal District Kendall.

Cambridge Community Television has found its third executive director in Jessica Smyser, the leader of an arts and education nonprofit in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who before that worked in the Cambridge and Somerville music industry.

Public meetings this week look at ending zoning just for single-family housing; outdoor education; how home-based businesses may get easier to set up; a doughnut shop/diner and separate boutique hotel plans in Central Square; and more.

Public meetings this week look at securing more money to get businesses, households and the homeless through the coronavirus; a 46-unit project for Central Square; asking what IQHQ will do about its polluted Jerry’s Pond; how the green line extension is going; and much more.

It may have seemed like the growing First Street Corridor had it all with apartments, retail, offices and even a park, but on Friday the ribbon was cut on the use that makes it truly seem like Cambridge: A nonprofit, in the form of a Food For Free distribution center.