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Until recently, the East Cambridge neighborhood where First Street is located had little to offer the middle class--unless they were lawyers in court there. The waterfront area was the province of factories, like Borden's candy plant, and stores more like Wool-worth's than Bloomingdales. But Cambridge can't stand to be behind the times. And it's catching up with other cities at a furious pace...
Revitalization is quickly becoming a motif of the modern American metropolis. City after city is trying to rejuvenate decayed downtown and waterfront areas. Skyscrapers rise like phoenixes where factories and tenement houses once stood. In Baltimore, a decrepit harborplace was turned into a yuppie shopping and eating complex in just a few years. New York's waterfront suffered a similar facelift with the creation of South Street Seaport, a shopping plaza akin to Faneuil Hall. And the trend has spread to East Cambridge...
...respectable addition to nouvelle American dining in this area. It features a take-out counter, a bar and even seating in the building's interior courtyard--and all this in thorougly upscale surroundings. This is a restaurant that definitely caters to the new crowd along the Cambridge waterfront...
...ranged between $10,000 and $20,000. Last year Billy bought a house in a rural area for $43,000, a purchase made possible by his father's financial aid: Bob put up the down payment of $11,000. Billy too is looking for a job on the waterfront, where the $11 hourly wage and full benefits will go a lot further toward supporting his four children. But such jobs are so scarce, he says, that "you've got to stand in line three days just to get your name on a list. It's a rat race...