The students have packed up and left for the summer, and pretty soon Harvard’s art museums will go on an extended hiatus, as well. After many years and many false starts, Harvard is finally launching a major expansion of its art museums. In the process, what have been three separate institutions — the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum — will be consolidated under one roof, and one name: the Harvard Art Museum.
Verizon Communications Inc. is leasing the first floor of 95 Mt. Auburn St. in Harvard Square in Cambrige, Mass. The New York-based company is taking about 4,500 square feet at what used to be home to Tower Records, according to Richard Diamond, of The Diamond Group, a real estate firm, in Cambridge.
Ah, Paris. Strolling along the banks of the Seine, munching fresh croissants, watching the surging euro turn your dollar into a worthless scrap of paper. Since the floundering economy means we can’t always have Paris, we’ll have to settle for Harvard Square and the Charles, Au Bun Pain and – viola! – the new Make Music Cambridge festival.
Why isn’t there free Wi-Fi everywhere? I ask this as I sit in an Espresso Vivace in Seattle, typing away and enjoying free wireless (and a truly terrific latte—easily an 8.5 on the Huang scale). Being new to the city and still in the process of setting up connectivity, I’m acutely aware of any and all hotspots I find.
Home to one of the world’s top universities, Harvard Square normally hosts the exchange of ideas, but can now host the exchange of data, too. On Wednesday a number of businesses and organizations partnered to launch free public Wi-Fi for users within a half mile of the square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Harvard Square will launch free Wi-Fi to the public Wednesday afternoon at 4 p.m. The Harvard Square Business Association has been working in collaboration with Cambridge, Harvard University and Harvard Square Business Association members to deploy a mesh network to provide free, outdoor Wi-Fi access to the public.
Seniors are about to lose their Harvard Internet access, but thanks to a new wireless network, those staying in the Square won’t be left stranded. The Harvard Square Business Association activated a wireless network yesterday afternoon that provides free Internet to anyone in the Square area, temporarily christened “Hogwarts Square” in honor of J. K. Rowling, the University’s Commencement speaker.
The owner of Harvard Book Store, an independent shop on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Plympton Street said this week that he planned to sell the shop that has been owned by his family since 1932.
The owner of the Harvard Book Store, a landmark that has been in the same family for 76 years, has put the store up for sale.
Come this summer, there will be six ice cream or frozen yogurt stores within walking distance of the Yard, but only one of them will boast four walls of grass.