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The Crimson

Square Kiosk Finds New Order

Convenience store and newsstand operator Muckey’s Corp. signed a lease to take over Out of Town News earlier this week, rescuing the iconic Harvard Square kiosk from an uncertain future.

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The Crimson

Businesses Push Shopping Locally

Harvard Square shops and restaurants are staying afloat despite grim prospects for the holiday shopping season nationally. Still, the Square is pushing for ways to bolster business—especially for locally owned, independent shops.

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The Crimson

Square devices to power wireless access in Square

Three solar Wi-Fi-powered devices were installed in Harvard Square last week, with plans to increase this number in the near future. These solar devices, produced by wireless network provider Meraki, were conceived as part of a Ph.D. project at MIT in 2006.

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Boston Globe

Hip in the Square

Someone always sounds the death knell for Harvard Square whenever a long-established business closes or a national chain store moves in. We’re certainly no fans of corporate homogenization, but the passing of Harvard Square, as Mark Twain once observed about reports of his death, has been “greatly exaggerated.” A few shop fronts change nearly as often as the fresh faces of each new class of students, but across the generations Harvard Square remains the crossroads of funk and philosophy, of idealism and consumerism, of red brick and green politics.

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The Crimson

Shoppers Hit Square Stores

Retailers rolled out a variety of promotions and discounts with mixed results last Friday in an effort to lure recession-weary consumers into Harvard Square stores, hoping that the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season might boost revenues battered in recent months by a tumbling economy.