Harvard Square Media Room

Welcome to the Harvard Square Media Room, your source for the latest news, announcements, and stories from one of the world’s most iconic neighborhoods. As a vibrant destination where history, culture, education, dining, shopping, and innovation converge, Harvard Square continues to inspire visitors, residents, and businesses alike.
CBS Boston

Cambridge Ranked 2nd On ‘Best Cities To Live In America’ List

CAMBRIDGE (CBS) — Residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts should consider themselves lucky – a recent survey identifying the “Best Cities To Live In America” ranks the liberal enclave second in the country. Cambridge […]

The Crimson

What a Time to be Alive: Spring Comes Early in Harvard Square with Life Alive

As the final days of Cambridgian winters draw to an end (save a few snowstorms interspersed between 60-degree days), Harvard students begin to emerge from their thinly insulated colonial dorms […]

The Crimson

Harvard Square Hosts Cambridge For Ukraine Fundraiser

Roughly 200 people gathered at Harvard Square’s Sanctuary Theater on Sunday to watch Cambridge for Ukraine, a performance and fundraising event organized by Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre Dance for World […]

Boston Herald

Boston Underground Film Festival keeps it strange in return to Brattle

It’s been hit hard by the pandemic but BUFF — the 22nd Boston Underground Film Festival — is climbing back, on March 23.“BUFF hasn’t changed that much since I’ve been […]

Our Community Now

Harvard Square Stands In Solidarity With Ukraine with Demonstration This Sunday

Cambridge artists, Ross Miller and Yolanda He Yang, will wrap the Charles Sumner statue in Harvard Square in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. The statue is located directly across from the First Parish […]

Broadway World

Harvard Square Stands In Solidarity With Ukraine with Demonstration This Sunday

Cambridge artists, Ross Miller and Yolanda He Yang, will wrap the Charles Sumner statue in Harvard Square in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. On Sunday, March 20th at 4:30 p.m., Cambridge artists, Ross […]

City of Cambridge

Mass Ave. Improvements – Harvard Square Bus Stops and Kiosk Construction Update

Description The City of Cambridge invites you to a virtual community meeting to discuss projects associated with the Cycling Safety Ordinance. This meeting will focus on the two bus stop segments in […]

Wicked Local

Harvard Square Business Assoc. honors city manager, reflects on past two years

The Harvard Square Business Association has awarded its highest accolade to Cambridge City Manager Louis DePasquale as he prepares to leave City Hall’s corner office and enter retirement.  The special honor […]

Wicked Local

In Harvard Square, Life Alive + Down Under create a restaurant and yoga “wellness oasis”

Life Alive restaurant and the Down Under School of Yoga kicked off the new month swinging the doors open to a joint enterprise in Harvard Square.  Called Life Alive + Down […]

The Crimson

Bike Lane Delay in Porter Square Stirs Conflict in City Council Meeting

A delay in the construction of bicycle lanes in the Porter Square neighborhood of Cambridge stirred disagreement among residents in a Cambridge City Council meeting Monday evening. During the meeting, […]

WFMZ

Harry Belafonte turns 95 today. A look at his life, in photos

1955: Harry Belafonte with Ed Sullivan

The Crimson

Taco ’Bout News!: El Jefe’s Taqueria to Relocate Within Harvard Square

El Jefe’s Taqueria, a staple of Harvard Square, is set to move into a new location around the corner from its current storefront in August. The restaurant, one of the […]