An employee at Ben & Jerry’s yesterday was unaware that her store plans to request longer hours.

The Harvard Square Defense Fund opposes the extension of hours on the grounds that late night establishments create crime.

G. Pebble Gifford, the president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, said the Fund would present police records as evidence that the extension of hours would be problematic.

“The Hong Kong [restaurant] has a police call every week,” she said, referring to the Mass. Ave. restaurant and lounge that is open until 3 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

“People will pour out at 2 a.m. and break windows,” Gifford said. “The Square is also a residential neighborhood.”

Gifford added that if the Commission approved the three Garage requests it would have to approve every other request for late hours.

“You can’t do one—it’s all or nothing,” she said.

But Brush said that even though Felipe’s, unlike the other Garage establishments, fronts on a street, it has had no problems with late night patrons.

Yesterday, Cambridge License Commission Executive Officer Richard V. Scali said that he had not yet heard any opposition to the request, although he said he expected the Harvard Square Defense Fund to protest the proposed change.

He added that on May 25 the Commission would hear a request from the Grafton Street Pub and Grille at 1230 Mass. Ave. to extend its hours until 2 a.m.

Scali said that the restaurant asked for the extension in the fall but the Commission had not yet ruled on it. Currently, Grafton Street closes at 1 a.m.

DiGiovanni said that if the Commission extends the hours of the Garage restaurants it would take 30 to 60 days to implement the change.

“Seniors who graduate won’t be able to enjoy it,” he said.

—Staff writer Joseph M. Tartakoff can be reached at tartakof@fas.harvard.edu.