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Rindge Towers is an affordable housing development in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [1] Completed in 1970, the three 22-story towers make up a 777-unit [2] apartment complex located in close proximity to the Alewife MBTA station at the terminus of the Red Line.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus (14 P) Pages in category "Neighborhoods in Cambridge, Massachusetts" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
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Cambridgeport is one of the neighborhoods of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is bounded by Massachusetts Avenue, the Charles River , the Grand Junction Railroad , and River Street. [ 1 ] The neighborhood contains predominantly residential homes, many of the triple decker style common in New England.
Within four years of repealing the law, Cambridge, where "the city's form of rent control was unusually strict," saw new housing and construction increase by 50%, and the tax revenue from construction permits tripled. [41] Property values in Cambridge increased by about $7.8 billion in the decade following the repeal. [42]
Craigie Arms is a historic apartment house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Located in Harvard Square, the Georgian Revival four-story brick building was built in 1897 to meet local demand for apartment-style housing. The building occupies most of a city block along University Road, Mount Auburn Street, and Bennett Street.
Areas such as Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan, and Jamaica Plain were popular with the emerging middle class and became "streetcar suburbs" as transportation systems expanded from the older, core sections of the city. Typically, the affordable three-decker homes attracted live-in landlords who would collect rent from the other two apartments.
The Port, formerly Area 4, is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, roughly between Central Square, Inman Square, and MIT.It is bounded on the south by Massachusetts Avenue, on the west by Prospect Street, on the north by Hampshire Street, and on the east by the Grand Junction Railroad tracks. [1]