Plan for MIT’s empty triple-decker in Central, due to be affordable units, awaits assessment
An assessment of a long-empty triple-decker in Lafayette Square is expected to be complete within a couple of months, leading to a plan on its conversion into affordable housing for families.
Coronavirus edition 61: ‘Collision Shop’ at MIT and festival bill led off by ‘Summer of Soul’ doc
This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with includes Questlove’s “Summer of Soul” and other Independent Film Festival Boston fare; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s joyously crowdsourced “Collision Shop” and a batch of works from Netflix animation to Shudder lunacy.
Met Pipe suing Alexandria over its Binney math; MIT preps update for 93-year-old dorm building
The hyper complicated Alexandria Real Estate Equities zoning petition that passed in 2020 brought together recreational land the city has wanted for three decades and made room for an entire Eversource electrical substation. But one player says it was left out, and is suing.
The meteorologists down the street can’t tell you about the weather in their institute’s hometown
Cambridge can seem like an afterthought (at best) to the academics who pass through, and even to those who are here for the long term as lecturers and residents.
Testing of waste suggests a coronavirus variant that’s more contagious is thriving in Cambridge
The coronavirus variant first discovered in Britain has been found in Cambridge sewage, visceral evidence that it’s circulating in the city. The variant, labeled B.1.1.7 by scientists, is more contagious and probably more deadly than the original Covid-19 virus that arose in China last year.
Where a 7.5-acre central park was once planned, Planning Board okays Volpe site with much less
A 14-acre Volpe site redevelopment won unanimous preliminary approval Tuesday from seven Planning Board members, essentially ending debate about an approach to open space at the site.
MIT clamps down at Sloan school over Covid rise; City considers sampling sewage for variants peril
Amid rising Covid-19 cases in Cambridge, more than one-quarter of new infections in the city last week were students and others connected with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With coronavirus variants making up more infections, the city is mulling a variant test for its sewage.
Women & Science Theater Fest plays and panels virtually reinvent April at Central Square Theater
A monthlong festival highlighting underrepresented voices in science – women and Black, indigenous and other people of color – arrives in April to the Central Square Theater, with plays, panels and events that bring more than 30 artists and scientists to the virtual stage.
Cambridge, Harvard and MIT must shelter homeless better for next months with Covid
As we approach the start of the second year of this pandemic, the large institutions of Cambridge and city government need to act differently than in 2020. Studies have shown that the non-congregate shelter option is a public health option that works.
Attend meetings on single-family zoning law, snow removal, MIT dorm plan, Palmer Street
Public meetings this week look at snow removal, while the snow keeps falling; an Alewife Quadrangle zoning petition, continued; MIT plans for a grad student dorm; a possible end of zoning just for single-family housing; remaking Harvard Square’s Palmer Street; and more.
