I honk and feel relieved that at least they waited to be stuck at a light before staring at their phone.

There’s not much around here. I use the Uhaul in Central

whole row of cars sitting through an entire light cycle because nobody looked up from their phones. always hilarious.

They're coming!

Tax unoccupied space.

This one was significantly less insane than the last one

For me, the square is 100% dead when Charlie’s and Million Year Picnic go under

Why vacant? I’d imagine a combo of turnover, construction, and pandemic effects. But I can only speculate. Turnover is always a thing, construction is sometimes a thing, and the pandemic was pretty unique. Hopefully the current vacancy levels settle down. The theater location has been vacant since well before the pandemic, so there must be greater issues at play there. It’d be great to have something there again. That address dominates half of Church St.

PRC seemed to somehow ignore the oblitrization/commercialization of the square. Not unlike Faneuil Hall, which became all "Mall Stores" before Malls became extinct.

Used to have small independent shops and restaurants and was a draw even though it was impossible to park...

Now it's barely worth visiting.

I once traded the jeans I was wearing for a Banshees record in The Pit.

Yo this shit makes me sad. I miss the old harvard sqaure. even the homeless people left. The pit OMG that shit used to be different.

out of state investor ... Chinese

a Chinese developer bought it and just lets it sit there. and no one can do anything about it.

Unlike the last one (which was insanely unreasonably loud) - this one seemed pretty much ok. Personally could do without the flyovers, but a good compromise would be to do them and just have some guidelines about how fast/low flying they can be

It's mostly parking lots, nail salons and insurance companies, and a few interesting restaurants. I'm there in the day several times a month and it's pretty bleak to just get coffee and find something to do. Not that Harvard Square is some kind of utopia at the moment, but I don't think Medford Square is it either.

Why is that?

Such as? Any good places to hang out?

They weren’t flying as fast as they usually do.

Thanks! I’m really hoping to find something for July

Don’t worry! There’s another Chase opening on JFK Street! It’s coming soon!

This feels ripped off the recent book called Harvard Square a Love Story by Catherine Turco…

Multiple pizza places including Pinocchio s. Multiple book stores including the independent Harvard Bookstore. Multiple ice cream places including the local Lizzy’s. Multiple,coffee shops. Harvard Yard. JFK park.Winthrop park…

We're all moving out in June/July, and not much is going to show up before then. I wish you luck! And congrats on getting into Harvard ;)

We do have good credit. But the irony in America is you have to be in debt to show you can pay bills. We have no debt other than our mortgage so we have a “thin” credit profile but good scores.

Thanks. I did that. There has only been one unit listed for the last week. Nothing else. I’m really hoping something shows up.