Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That decision was what brought Wallace-Benjamin and about 75 others--many of them also parents of Commonwealth Day students--out to Brattle St. for a candlelight vigil on Tuesday. Since the school announced its plans to sell the property, the neighborhood has been attacked with charges of racism, classism and elitism...
Much of the commotion centers around a petition signed by 235 neighborhood residents last fall, which opposed a zoning variance that would allow the school to expand its kindergarten...
Brattle St., with its close proximity to Harvard, is often regarded as the liberal stronghold of a liberal city. But the widely publicized story of the Commonwealth Day School has prompted many to charge that the progessive image of both city and neighborhood is little more than a facade...
Brooks, however, was not. She and her husband decided to take the case to the Massachusetts Land Court. Rather than continue to fight the neighborhood, school officials decided to sell...
Criticism of the neighborhood has often been tinged with anti-Harvard sentiment...