Harvard Square blog from Gina

      Crime in Central Square is a very serious social issue that is currently occurring. My friend just last year was punched in the face by a random man on the street on his way to his dorm room after class which resulted in him needing surgery because he broke his jaw in three different places. Many business owners are looking for help and trying to find a way to decrease the crime and homelessness. Although the square has been very clean, maybe the cleanest its ever been, things feel much worse. Student who live in the quad are forced to walk half an hour from class in the dark through this area that is known for crime at night. The city's history of crime is mostly caused by unhoused humans harming other unhoused humans on the street who occasionally harm others. According to crime statistics, Cambridge is much safer than it was 25 years ago or in its past, but property crime and violent crime have both increased from 2019 to 2021 (article published in 2021). The pol...

Cambridge is full of many architectural significant buildings in literature, music, performance arts, and film. Below is a tour of these significant buildings.  1.) The Harvard art museums are the oldest museums at Harvard. It is home to many European and American art from the middle ages to present day. The first of the three here is the Fogg museum. The Fogg museum is opened in 1895 and was designed by architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot. This joint teaching facility and art museum was the first purpose built structure made for the specialized training of art scholars in North America.  2.) The next Harvard museum Busch-Reisinger Museum. This museum was created in 1901 and is dedicated to the study of all modes and periods of art from central and northern Europe, with extra emphasis on Germanic art. This museum holds noteworthy contemporary and postwar art from the German-speaking areas of Europe.  3.) The next museum at Harvard is the Arthur M. Sackler Mu...