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Former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci Dies | News | The Harvard Crimson

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Alfred E. Vellucci, the former Cambridge mayor notorious for his zealous feuds with Harvard, died last Thursday in Cambridge City Hospital. He was 87. Vellucci’s conflicts with Harvard began in 1956, his first year on the Cambridge City Council, when he proposed separating the University from Cambridge. His most famous threat was a plan to purchase Harvard Yard by eminent domain and pave it over for public parking, thereby solving Cambridge’s parking problems. “We will cut all their trees and all their landscape after confiscating their land by police force if necessary,” a 1988 Crimson article quoted him as saying. In 1964, Vellucci proposed using urban renewal laws to raze Harvard buildings—including Straus, Lehman and Mass. Halls—in order to solve Harvard Square’s traffic problem. His plans for the Yard changed again in 1968 when he proposed the city government dig out Harvard Yard to build an underground garage and bus depot. Vellucci’s animosity toward Harvard existed since his ea

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