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In fact, the BART that connects the East Bay and SF stops running at midnight. Expensive cab is pretty much the only way to get back from the city
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<p>You could take the #800 AC Transit Transbay all-nighter bus. I've done it. </p>
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Boston city line (Allston is part of Boston)
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<p>Yeah, but that part of Allston of which you speak is only nominally part of Boston. Guys, let's be honest. The part of Allston that Harvard currently occupies is basically just a suburb. I think when people are talking about Boston, they are mostly talking about *urban *Boston. Frankly and ironically, Cambridge feels more like Boston than does Allston, which actually is (nominally) part of Boston.</p>
<p>The section of Allston abutted by Harvard is more precisely a formerly industrial no-man's land (train yards, highway on-ramps, auto repair shops and things of that ilk), next to densely populated low rent suburb-style housing. The low rent made it a quasi-Bohemian neighborhood for artists, grad students, immigrants and, well, "low rent" types. But as sakky says, nothing too exciting or likely to appear in admissions brochures.</p>
<p>Harvard medical campus is in a more urban, and one of the most picturesque, parts of Boston.</p>
<p>MIT has some picturesque Boston (and Cambridge) location as well.</p>