Megan McArdle: Night Life Clusters

I’ve always been fascinated by the way businesses cluster, even retail stores.  You tend to get multiple clothing shops, home improvement stores, and so forth in a relatively small area, especially when there’s high population density–New York City has an entire area that’s just chock full of lamp shops.

As with lamps, so with bars.  Unfortunately, as Matt Yglesias notes, this tends to upset the neighbors.