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Area 2/MIT Campus - Neighbohood 2
Neighborhood Description
The neighborhood designated “Area 2” is bounded to the north by Broadway and Main Street, to the east by the Charles River and to the west by the Boston & Albany Railroad tracks and is almost entirely occupied by the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Area 2 contains the core of MIT’s academic and research facilities, as well as most of MIT’s student housing. The vast majority of the neighborhood’s 5,500 residents are undergraduate or graduate students living in MIT dormitories or fraternities. The major commercial and transit center for the neighborhood is at Kendall Square, and the Charles River Reservation serves as the neighborhood’s largest public recreational resource. The Harvard Bridge (Massachusetts Avenue) and Longfellow Bridge (Main Street) connect the neighborhood to the City of Boston.
- Link to Neighborhood Map (913 KB, PDF format)
- Link to Neighborhood Statistics
Also of Interest to Neighborhood Residents
- Eastern Cambridge Planning Study, completed 2001
- Kendall Square Map (509 KB)
- Lafayette Square and Massachusetts Avenue Project. See also DPW Project Overview and Construction Updates.
- MIT Town Gown Report
Contact Neighborhood Planner
Neighborhood Planner: Taha Jennings, tjennings@cambridgema.gov, 617/349-4603.
The Community Development Department TTY line is 617/349-4621.
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