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This ’hood was once as wet as Boston Harbor before being backfilled and built up with elegant 19th-century brownstones. Today, you’ll find the haughtier designer shops closest to the Public Garden, but increasingly funkier boutiques as you walk west toward Massachusetts Avenue. Homegrown Newbury Comics is a mecca to music and pop culture. Drop into Rick Walker’s for leather jackets, cowboy hats and vintage boots. The whimsical Fairy Shop features knickknacks devoted to unicorns, Alice in Wonderland and Tim Burton.

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