The 500-square-foot, city-owned building dates from 1928 and has been used as a newsstand since 1984. That could soon end, however, as the city is looking to renovate the kiosk as part of a general renovation of the square's central plaza. Officials and residents are not expected to decide the fate of the kiosk before this fall, so things will continue as they are for most of 2017. That could change toward 2018 and beyond.

The newsstand has been here for 54 years, but will have to vacate by the spring to make room for a 62-seat &pizza restaurant, including 10 outdoor tables where Crimson Corner's magazines and newspapers currently reside.

The seven-year-old restaurant closed in the fall to make room for a 62-seat &pizza restaurant.

The changes to this public plaza are part of a wider renovation that Harvard is undertaking of its Smith Center student union. Work is supposed to wrap next year and will bring changes such as a four-foot extension of the center into the plaza and a second-floor balcony that overhangs the first floor and therefore overlooks the plaza. The center's renovation also meant the displacement of eateries such as Al's and Au Bon Pain, and the relocation of Oggi's.

Movie-house giant AMC shuttered this location in 2012. It had been used as a theater of one sort or another since the Jazz Age. A trust that Chinese investor Gerald Chan controls snapped up the building in 2015 for $17.5 million (Chan owns several other properties in the Harvard Square area). The building has been vacant since that 2012 shuttering, with no apparent plans for redevelopment or a reopening.

This restaurant closed in September after nearly 20 years in business. The space remains vacant with no apparent plans for redevelopment or reopening.