June 10, 2002
The Ruins of Cambridge
My buddy Pete has just posted a really cool and really depressing photo essay featuring photos from Central and Harvard Squares from 1998 and today. If you're not a local, here's the story...like so many cool neighborhoods in the 90s, big chunks of Cambridge became too cool and funky for their own good. People started flocking to the neighborhood, landlords raised rent, the businesses that created the neighborhood couldn't afford to stay, they closed, and The Gap and its clones moved in to complete the sterilization and make the area a big outdoor mall.
I'd tell you where some of the cool areas around Boston are now, but we're not allowed to say anything...maybe the Gap won't find out.
Posted by michaelf at June 10, 2002 08:44 PM
