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The Break Away team on the move

You are not seeing double. The crew at Capitol Hill thrift and vintage market Break Away have expanded with a second showroom in the neighborhood. You can now find the original shop on E Pike and a new second store of racks and piles of thrift and vintage clothing at Pine and Boylston.

How it all fits together, you’ll have to ask Break Away about, but the grand opening of the E Pine space brought a line around the block for “Break Away Steals” and shoppers digging through racks and piles for bargains and sick cuts.

CHS reported this spring on Break Away and owners including Nevin Poyneer and Tanner Callies growing from street vintage sales to a brick and mortar shop next to E Pike’s Late Night Vintage. “It’s like a maze,” co-owner Eddie Duran told CHS, “We have so many different rooms. We’ve got cool music, video games, foosball. You can just come hang out, get lost in here.”

The Break Away expansion comes on a corner with a history of Capitol Hill used goods and treasures. The space was once home to Capitol Loans. It has been empty since low-waste retailer the Naked Grocer closed on the block in 2023. Now the space has become part of the Break Away vintage and thrift party and part of Capitol Hill’s never say die community of thrift stores and consignment shops including the new Magpie Thrift that opened earlier this year on Broadway.

As for Capitol Loans, they’re doing just fine now across the street on the other side of E Pine.

Break Away is now — also — open at 620 E Pine. Check @breakaway_steals for hours and updates.

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