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* Harvard Square, formed by the junction of Massachusetts Avenue, Brattle Street, and JFK Street.

This is the primary site of Harvard University, and is a major Cambridge shopping area.

It is served by a Red Line station.

Harvard Square was originally the northwestern terminus of the Red Line and a major transfer point to streetcars that also operated in a short tunnel — which is still a major bus terminal, although the area under the Square was reconfigured dramatically in the 1980s when the Red Line was extended.

The Harvard Square area includes Brattle Square and Eliot Square.

A short distance away from the square lies the Cambridge Common, while the neighborhood north of Harvard and east of Massachusetts Avenue is known as Agassiz in honor of the famed scientist Louis Agassiz.