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Speaker 1: The iconic diner Car Buddies in East Summerville has been

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Speaker 1: closed for three years now after a sewer pipe collapsed

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Speaker 1: and flooded the business, having served the community for decades.

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Speaker 1: Taya Homes of East Somerville Main Street says, it's been

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Speaker 1: a big loss.

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Speaker 2: It's served really really good, really affordable food and it

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Speaker 2: has such a big place in people's cultural memory. It's,

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Speaker 2: you know, a way that people tell direction. You know

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Speaker 2: it's over by Buddies.

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Speaker 1: As the owner tries to raise money to help reopen,

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Speaker 1: the community is stepping up as well. They helped get

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Speaker 1: seventy five thousand dollars in Community Preservation Act money to

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Speaker 1: help fix the sewer system, just a small step on

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Speaker 1: the road to recovery. Matthew Dickey, of the Streetscape Curator

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Speaker 1: isn't from the area, but he helped plan the event

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Speaker 1: because of how important he believes spaces like these are

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Speaker 1: to the community.

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Speaker 3: There are so few spaces left that have the character

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Speaker 3: or history that a Buddies has, and there's so few

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Speaker 3: spaces that you just rubbed shoulders with fringe and strangers alike.

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Speaker 1: From Somerville. Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio