The Herald has a story about what’s going on at the old Greenhouse space in Harvard Square… you know the one that has been vacant for a long time and seems to be a great spot for creative graffiti artists. Tory Row, a Euro-cafe that’s owned by the same people that own Cambridge 1 and Miracle of Science, will be opening in November.

I have confidence owners Chris Lutes and Matthew Curtis will make Tory Row delicious because their previous ventures have been pretty tasty.

Earlier: Greenhouse is gone, now what?

The Middlesex DA’s office is investigating after 2,347 linear feet of cast-iron trim from the historic Longfellow Bridge is now officially missing. Last year, between Sept. 20 and Oct. 9, approximately 3,467 linear feet of the decorative parapet coping was removed from the outside edge of the Longfellow Bridge while repairs to the bridge were underway. State officials planned to refurbish the sections in the future and reattach them to the bridge.

“We at DCR are shocked and outraged by the disappearance of this historic metalwork, a unique feature of the Longfellow Bridge that we planned to restore along with the bridge,” DCR Commissioner Richard K. Sullivan Jr. said in a press release. “We take this extremely seriously. An investigation is underway by the Middlesex County District Attorney’s office as a potential criminal matter. I urge anyone with information on this incident to come forward.”

According to the press release from DCR: if melted down and resold as cast iron, the missing copia sections would be worth an estimated $10,000. Recreating the sections could cost as much as $750,000.

A Harvard University police officer said she’s being used as a scapegoat as the university tries to deal with allegations of racial profiling by campus police, the Globe reports.

Theresa McAuliffe, on paid administrative leave since Harvard announced she and a colleague confronted a black high school student on campus trying to cut his own bike lock, said she never pointed a gun at him or cursed at him.

“I was shocked. I felt bad. I just couldn’t believe they were saying that we mishandled him, that we were mean, that we were cursing at him, that I stuck my gun in his face,” said McAuliffe, recounting her meeting with a superviser four days after the incident. “I did not.”

In another step toward more public access, Cambridge Police have now made their police log available on-line. (The push toward more openess is something Commissioner Robert Haas made a priority when he took the helm of the department about a year ago)

It used to be if you wanted to see the police log, you had to go to the station and ask to see a binder with a list of the daily reports. Not anymore.

Now if you want to know about that car break-in on your street, you can find it on the police department’s Web site.

But don’t worry: If you’re too busy to check the site everyday (because you have a life, right!), we’ll still have our own compiled weekly police log available in the newspaper and on our Web site every week.

In Harvard Square. Sort of. Construction on that “super-crosswalk” is just about finished.

Boston health officials recently moved to ban tobacco products in drugstores and on college campuses, the Globe reports. With plenty of drugstores and universities in Cambridge, should we do the same on this side of the river? From the Globe story:

The restrictions, which would give Boston among the toughest antismoking laws in the nation, could go into effect early next year. The rules would also stamp out smoking on the patios of restaurants and bars with outside service; tobacco use has been banned inside since 2003. And, after a five-year grace period, the city would shutter cigar bars, swank salons catering to tobacco connoisseurs, which were exempt from the earlier regulation.

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This morning, I got on the Red Line at Harvard to go to Davis Square. When we got to Porter, an announcement stated that I was now on an express train to Alewife (there was no announcement at Harvard). Then when I got to work this morning I found a press release touting the T’s expansion of service. I hope this latest move also means more announcements about where the T is going too! According to a press release from the MBTA:

To accommodate increasing ridership on the Red Line, a total of three trains (or 18 subway cars) have been added during the AM and PM peak commuting periods.

The Globe has the all-encompassing story here.

The Broad Institute, the genomics research organization that’s a Harvard-MIT collaborative, is set to receive $400 million from the Broad family, according to Xconomy. The Broad Institute plans to hold a press conference Thursday morning to announce that Eli and Edythe Broad plan to give the institute the gift. The press conference will feature Gov. Deval Patrick and other life science luminaries.

I got some footage of the man, the myth, the Seinfeld legend himself. Check it out.

If you’ve had it up to here with the recent spate of shootings around the city, especially in the Area 4 neighborhood, you might want to attend tonight’s meeting at the Pisani Center (131 Washington St.) from 6:30-8 p.m. The meeting will try to answer three questions: What happened? What is being done? What can the community do? For more information, call the Margaret Fuller House at 617-547-4680.

Police are looking into reports of shots fired at York Place and Cardinal Medeiros Avenue at about 9 p.m. Tuesday. About five minutes before, police received reports of shots fired on Newtowne Court. Police said a dark car sped away.

If you’ve got any photos of the scene, send them to cambridge@cnc.com.

UPDATE: Police re-opened York and Berkshire streets at 9:45 p.m. after sealing it off.

Don’t be frightened when you see Seinfeld’s-own “Soup Nazi” in Harvard Square ladling out some chowdahh for Cambridge’s do-gooders. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Larry Thomas, the man who owned the phrase “no soup for you” will be in the city as part of a “Do Something with Seinfeld” tour - a national food drive encouraging millions of college students to make a difference each year.

But the 60-foot long biodeisel-fueled tour bus itself seems to be the main attraction. It’s a mini museum complete with all-things Seinfeld (games, tv episodes on display, photo galleries), a Kramer yogurt bar, and an outdoor video testimonial booth where you can recreate your favorite scenes.

You can guarantee the Chronicle will be there!

Larry Thomas “The Soup Nazi” shows off a new game about the Seinfeld show.

Jillian shoots video … stay tuned to find out if she got some soup.

Keith E. Jacobson/Staff Photographer

79-year-old Susan Wexler was found lost in the woods in Maine over the weekend. She did aerobic exercises to keep warm and is doing just fine.

The NY Times has a piece on a site called many-eyes.com, which was created by IBM in Cambridge. The site lets users upload technical graphs and charts and then let others analyze them, sort of like Flickr or YouTube for photos and video.

Collaboration like this can be an effective way to spur insight, said Pat Hanrahan, a professor of computer science at Stanford whose research includes scientific visualization. “When analyzing information, no single person knows it all,” he said. “When you have a group look at data, you protect against bias. You get more perspectives, and this can lead to more reliable decisions.”

We just overheard that a guy robbed Cambridge Trust Company bank in Harvard Square

The suspect is described as a 45- to 50-year-old black man with a medium build. He’s about five-feet 11-inches and was last seen wearing a long-sleeved black shirt, blue jeans, a black baseball cap and black sunglasses.

An MBTA e-mail alert said the Red line is experiencing 15-20 minute delays as cops search the T for the suspect.

BoMag listed Cambridge Public Schools as one of the top school systems in the state. Philip Greenspun breaks down the numbers on his blog. According to Greenspun:

Cambridge is #1 in cost, having spent $24,467 per year per student. That’s up from $20,637 in 2005. SAT scores, meanwhile, have fallen from 481 verbal/500 math to 465/468, well below the nationwide average for 2007 of 502/515. Cambridge has the lowest student-teacher ratio of any school in the state and the most non-teacher staff (100 administrators for the 1541 students).

Brookline is right across the river and has a similar proximity to Boston and density of housing. They spent $15,098 per student and the average SAT scores were 571/587.

Harvard scientists transform mouse pancreas cells into insulin-producing cells, clearing the way for a potential breakthrough in the search for a cure for diabetes, the Globe reports.

Toni “Bee” Brooks offers a personal account of Monday’s shootout in the city’s Area 4 neighborhood.