Notes from walk

Dhruv Mohan and Dhruv Mohan

Middle East

  • Rent shared
  • Underground newspaper
  • Built a community
  • Movement for kinder education 

Target (office space)

  • Feminism movement 
  • HQ of female liberation 
  • Self defense classes
  • Talk Show
  • Cambridge used to have rent control

Harvest Co-op

  • Food co-ops made healthy food
  • Volunteers would get discounts 
  • Went out of business during pandemic 

Santander

  • Rented out by 3 groups of people 

Cambridge Savings Bank

• One story shops

  • Used to cook free food in front

H-Mart

  • Essex street commune
  • Artists, poets, writers 

• Advocated for homelessness

55 Norfolk St

• Started as grocery store then

abandoned , then rented out by Piano

Dave, then turned

into an art gallery.