The area surrounding the interesection of Massachusetts Avenue and Prospect Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Not far from MIT, a little farther from Harvard University and the location of the Central Square subway stop on the Red Line of the MBTA. Once home to things like marxist feminist bookstores, Central Square has been undergoing a process of gentrification since the end of rent control in Cambridge, and is now home to franchises of Starbucks and the Gap.