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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

The Daily Free Press

Iris Ren | Senior Graphic Artist

A typical Sunday in New York City: Soaked, hungry and no reservations

Nino Machavariani March 2, 2025
This is my favorite part of any city day — leaning back in your seat and watching the world pass by through the train window. Bonus points if the sun is setting as it's the perfect way to wrap up the day. 
The Hyatt Hotel in Cambridge. About 125 students will be living in the Hyatt Hotel due to full occupancy on campus. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Housing shortage leads to student residences established in the Hyatt Regency hotel

Vivian Ainomugisha September 10, 2024
Students are being housed in the Hyatt Regency hotel in Cambridge due to an increased demand for on-campus housing.
Crispy Crepes Cafe, which has served the Boston University community for 18 years, has had to cut its hours and reduce staff due to the COVID-19 pandemic. SHANNON DAMIANO/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Lack of foot traffic continues to cripple small Comm. Ave. restaurants

Angela Yang October 13, 2020
Behind a hand-drawn sign on the University Grill and Pizza window that reads “Support Local Businesses,” the owners can often be found sitting at empty tables instead of preparing food behind the counter.
A person walks past a Green Line train departing Saint Paul Street station. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DFP FILE

How best to get around campus

Allison Pirog June 12, 2020
Many incoming Boston University students dream of taking in all the views campus has to offer — the city skyline, brownstones on the tree-lined Bay State Road and sailboats on the Charles River.
A senator in the BU Student Government has proposed the formation a committee to revamp BU's mobile app. PHOTO BY VIVIAN MYRON/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

SG committee sets out to revamp BU Mobile app

Mike Reddy March 1, 2018
“Garbage” was the word Charles Emhardt used to describe the BU Mobile app on Feb. 12 when he proposed forming a Student Government committee to find ways of improving it.

Las Vegas gunman set sights on Charles River Campus before attack

Haley Lerner January 25, 2018

The gunman responsible for the October mass shooting in Las Vegas, Stephen Paddock, was found to have researched multiple locations in Boston, including some on the Boston University campus, months prior...

The new BlindWays app, launched by the MBTA and the Perkins School for the Blind, helps blind and visually impaired riders find bus stops around the city. PHOTO BY OLIVIA FALCIGNO/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

New MBTA app assists visually impaired riders

Dave Sebastian September 25, 2016

The Perkins School for the Blind, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, launched BlindWays, an app that guides visually...

TENTINDO: Make future spring breaks lessons in living

TENTINDO: Make future spring breaks lessons in living

Will Tentindo March 14, 2016

While this winter was less severe as our last, spring break could not have been more needed. Cramming relaxation time away from all the stress of college into a week can sometimes result in manic attempts...

SARNA: Exploring food trends of 2015

SARNA: Exploring food trends of 2015

Rhea Sarna November 24, 2015

We live in the age where everything seems better manipulated to our customized benefits. Food no longer serves the purpose of just nourishment or appetite-fulfillment — now, it needs to be trending....

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