{"id":90,"date":"2004-03-01T14:09:03","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T21:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/01\/there_goes_the_neighborhood.html"},"modified":"2004-03-01T14:09:03","modified_gmt":"2004-03-01T21:09:03","slug":"there_goes_the_neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/01\/there_goes_the_neighborhood.html","title":{"rendered":"There goes the neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I walked to work this morning, I saw some sad news in the windows of The Museum of Useful Things<\/A> and Black Ink @ Home just down the street from me: it (they?) plans to move to 49 Brattle Street in Harvard Square sometime this spring. I’ve always been happy that an actual store selling interesting, well-designed stuff is located only a block away. I only bought a few little things there – it was always more like “The Museum of Things that Make Me Wish I Had a Place of My Own” – but it’s a great part of the neighborhood. So Black Ink used to be located next door, but then moved in with The Museum, which is apparently a “division of Black Ink, Inc.” Intarawut, which seems never to be open, moved in in its place. Then another Black Ink moved into Harvard Square, at 5 Brattle next to that deli\/diner place I’ve shied away from since I went there with Sloan in college. And now The Museum of Useful Things is apparently packing up and moving in around the corner from that new-ish Black Ink on Brattle, though on my walk to the A.R.T.<\/A> today, I noticed that 49 Brattle is the home of Colonial Drug<\/a>, a Harvard Square institution. Are they leaving? I guess nothing’s sacred, as a 137-year old family run sporting goods store located on the same street plans to leave<\/A> at the end of the month. Why is rent so high, if there’s not enough traffic coming by to shop?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I walked to work this morning, I saw some sad news in the windows of The Museum of Useful Things and Black Ink @ Home just down the street from me: it (they?) plans to move to 49 Brattle Street in Harvard Square sometime this spring. I’ve always been happy that an actual store […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}