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[[File:Rindge Towers - March 2015.JPG|thumb|320px|Rindge Towers, seen from the north]]
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'''Rindge Towers''' is an [[affordable housing]] development in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].<ref name="CityCouncil">[https://archive.today/20130616063920/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/41720809.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May+16,+1999&author=&pub=Boston+Globe&desc=Cambridge+City+Council+has+a+future Cambridge City Council has a future], The Boston Globe, May 16, 1999</ref> Completed in 1970, the three 22-story towers make up a 777-unit<ref name="GlobeHurley">Hurley, Mary. [https://archive.today/20130616063937/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/44651260.html?FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+12,+1999&author=Mary+Hurley,+Globe+Correspondent.&pub=Boston+Globe&desc=Tenants+fight+to+keep+affordable+apartments Tenants fight to keep affordable apartments],  The Boston Globe, September 12, 1999</ref> apartment complex located in close proximity to the [[Alewife (MBTA station)|Alewife MBTA station]] at the terminus of the [[Red Line (MBTA)|Red Line]]. The towers are named for [[Frederick H. Rindge]], the philanthropist who funded construction of [[Cambridge Rindge and Latin School]], [[Cambridge, Massachusetts City Hall|Cambridge City Hall]], and the [[Cambridge Public Library]].

The towers are built in the [[Le Corbusier]] style, which advocated dense high-rise housing complexes set within parks and open spaces. This style has since fallen out of fashion in favor of mixed-use and mixed-income development.<ref name="GlobeFlint" /> Also known as "'''Fresh Pond Apartments I, II and III'''", the buildings are by far the tallest in [[North Cambridge, Massachusetts|North Cambridge]]; their height is estimated at {{convert|269|ft|m}}.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20121107112213/http://www.emporis.com/building/freshpondapartmentsi-cambridge-ma-usa Fresh Pond Apartments at Emporis.com]}} Accessed 2015-03-17</ref>

Originally constructed to spur development in the [[Alewife, Cambridge|Alewife]] region of Cambridge, the towers—like many high-rise housing projects of the era—quickly became associated with crime and fell into disrepair.<ref name="GlobeFlint">Flint, Anthony [https://archive.today/20130616063939/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/295501031.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+23,+2003&author=Anthony+Flint,+GLOBE+CORRESPONDENT&pub=Boston+Globe&desc=GIVING+DENSITY+A+BAD+NAME Giving density a bad name], The Boston Globe, February 23, 2003</ref> Living conditions at the towers have improved from their nadir in the 1980s.<ref name="GlobeWalker">Walker, Adrian [https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/09/23/reclaimed-from-troubled-housing-project-multicultural-melting-pot/fJJ5HXvPa6zJsAWMO42AnI/story.html Reclaimed: From troubled housing project to multicultural melting pot], The Boston Globe, September 24, 2012</ref> However, the complex is still a focus for law enforcement activity, and in 2008 the [[Cambridge Police Department (Massachusetts)|Cambridge Police]] opened a substation at the towers.<ref>Dunning, Matt. [http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1820412952/Police-open-substation-at-Rindge-towers#axzz2RbJlr8ZD Police open substation at Rindge towers] The Cambridge Chronicle, May 06, 2008</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of tallest buildings and structures in Cambridge, Massachusetts]]

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