The neighbors are back

February 10th, 2004 · No Comments

The new Cambridge City Office at 57 Inman (not its official title, I don’t think) opened today. As I walked to work today I saw the first bikes attached to its new bike rack, and the first employees in the building taking their first cigarette break. As long as I’ve lived in Boston and Cambridge, almost four years now, the building, a beautiful old red brick structure that used to house “The Harvard School 1871” (though on the Inman St. side of the building, we see the year 1898), has been boarded up and under construction. When I moved in across the street last summer, construction had begun in earnest. Soon, I’ll be able to go across the street to renew my parking sticker instead of heading down Broadway to that weird, chock-a-block Interim Traffic Office. As their site says, they’ll be moving to “344 Broadway” (it used to be “57 Inman,” but they moved the main entrance of the building to what used to be the side, so the address has changed) on February 17. Soon, there’ll be no more cranes, no more concrete, no more weird flooding on the sidewalk. I wonder if the canteen truck that brings breakfast will still toot its piercing clown horn at 9:30 sharp every morning…

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