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Rindge Towers is an affordable housing development in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Cambridge City Council has a future
The Boston Globe, May 16, 1999
Completed in 1970, the three 22-story towers make up a 777-unitHurley, Mary

The Boston Globe, September 12, 1999
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. 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 . 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.Flint, Anthon
Giving density a bad name
The Boston Globe, February 23, 2003
Living conditions at the towers have improved from their nadir in the 1980s.Walker, Adria

The Boston Globe, September 24, 2012
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.Dunning, Matt
Police open substation at Rindge towers
The Cambridge Chronicle, May 06, 2008


See also

* List of tallest buildings and structures in Cambridge, Massachusetts


References

Affordable housing Buildings and structures in Cambridge, Massachusetts Public housing in the United States Modernist architecture in Massachusetts Residential buildings completed in 1971 Skyscrapers in Massachusetts Residential skyscrapers in Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-struct-stub