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Article: Allston residents angry over delay in upgrades - Harvard to improve area around stadium
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 20, 2007
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As Harvard University and Allston residents grapple over the
university's sweeping plans to expand across the Charles River, some
neighbors remain miffed over a long-neglected stretch of North
Harvard Street next to the school's football stadium.
A decade ago, Harvard pledged to replace the sidewalk and a chain-
link fence bounding Harvard athletic fields, as well as plant dozens
of trees along the road, which runs from the Charles River into
Allston.
Last month, neighbors complained that no trees had been planted,
while the crumbling sidewalk and rusted fence remain, and the city
agency overseeing Harvard's expansion plans ordered the university to
make the promised improvements ...