Talk:Cambridge, Massachusetts

Shoreline map

It would be interesting to have a map that showed the original shoreline vs. the current one, and when landfilled areas were added. -- Beland (talk) 06:02, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Much of Mt. Auburn Cem. in Watertown?

I am adding citation needed for the claim that "much of the Mt. Auburn cemetery lies in Watertown" because I know when on Mount Auburn St. the town line is just after the Shaws (after the Watertown Branch Railroad tracks. Furthermore, to the south is the Winsor Belmont Hill Boathouse along the Charles. Again also (again) in Cambridge [1] So those pretty well outline the western edge of Cambridge and much of Mt. Auburn is within that. I think from the Charles River Grove St.(?) is the boundary??? Anyway I'd be interested in seeing the source that claims much of Mt. Auburn is in Watertown given the split of Mt. Auburn/Belmont St. are town-line plus the boathouse along the Charles is also in Cambridge. CaribDigita (talk) 21:46, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

See http://www2.cambridgema.gov/CityOfCambridge_Content/documents/CambridgeStreetMap18x24_032007.pdf . The Cambridge border in the cemetery is Coolidge Ave and the bulk of the cemetery is west of that. --agr (talk) 21:56, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Oh my!!! Okay so it really does check out. I find that totally fascinating. So that might help account to why there is a "Cambridge Cemetery" next to Mt. Auburn. ;)

• Watertown map version too

CaribDigita (talk) 23:22, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

worthy of mention?

A little bit of amusement (for now, not sure what will happen if he's actually elected), but one "Roger Nicholson" has cooked up a plan whereby he claims if he's elected to Cambridge's City Council he plans to broach the idea of annexing the neighborhood of Davis Square in exchange for allowing Somerville to annex East Cambridge. This came to my mind today with another current City Councillor Mr. Leland Cheung sending me his first pre-election campaign email today. So I guess the election season is here. I've yet to hear of any individuals seeking Cambridge office with the expressed purpose of altering the city's long established boundaries.

• TV satirist draws line: He’ll give up East Cambridge to get Davis Square, (Published: March 7, 2010), Cambridge Day

CaribDigita (talk) 17:02, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for no summary

Sorry for not including a summary, I simply removed Kraców because below it was listed as inactive, so a double mention was confusing. Same with the relation with British Cambridge, to avoid an unecesary double mention. Thank you 69.126.10.106 (talk) 00:54, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Cambridge Police Dept. photo up for deletion.

I obtained a photo of the Cambridge Police Department from an old press release document outlining the city's intent to purchase the building (I believe it was.)

• Photo: [2]

I wrote to the City Manager's office and was approved for the fore-mentioned image to be included on *that page* of Wikipedia (Non-commercial use). It is currently up for deletion. I know I only went through all the trouble of calling and emailing the city because I had great difficulty in getting that 5 story building into a single photo. I tried on three occasions. Does anyone in that area want to try and see if they have better luck than myself in taking a good photo? One that's as good as the current one up for deletion. Me personally, I can't see why a commercial entity would need a free use image of the Cambridge Police dept. building. CaribDigita (talk) 18:20, 3 March 2012 (UTC)