From elections and new constructions to a labor and tenant organizing wave, a lot went down in Hyde Park this year. Herald staff tried to capture some of it.
The honor is from the newly established American Academy of Sciences and Letters, which also awarded Sir Salman Rushdie its Medal for Intellectual Freedom.
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