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SirLaxer t1_jabjeql wrote

You can go up just for the bar, and technically you can go up the escalator and have great views (to the west/northwest) in the area before the restaurant itself for free

https://imgur.com/a/iqylQIM/

After the Liberty Place observation deck closed, I now figure the cost of a drink at JG is like the cost of a ticket at Liberty

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TheAvocadoJam t1_jabhs7y wrote

Looking to rent for a bit before we start house shopping. I pretty sure we have a good idea of what neighborhoods we want namely either closer to everything Passyunk or a little further out in Manayunk/Roxborough. I work remote and my wife is looking for a new job there but wants to find something after we make the move so commute isn’t an immediate problem.

A concern i do have is what to do about our car and what areas have bad parking and I should avoid.

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spleenboggler t1_jabcuxj wrote

She should have parked on an unregulated street.

When I lived in that neighborhood a few years ago, there was a car with NJ tags on the unregulated part of 20th Street, between Mt. Vernon and Wallace streets. I don't know why I noticed it, but sometime in the late winter I saw it was crusted over with leaves. And then I saw that the registration had expired about six months prior.

I wanted the parking space, so I called 611, nothing. I used the city web portal, nothing. And then one morning, I saw a PPA guy walking down the street and I stopped him and told him about this, and I'll never forget his response:

"That's not my responsibility."

I think the car finally moved when the city resurfaced the road later that year.

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spleenboggler t1_jabcbqm wrote

I'll never forget when I was walking my then-infant daughter, we stopped near a building site, and then moments later watched those guys heave some debris out the third floor window and onto the sidewalk, where we would have been.

I started yelling at those guys, saying that we were right here, and they could have hurt us both. I couple of "sorry"s and "my fault"s from them, and then some guy started in about how it was a building site, and we should have known and shouldn't be near it, and man, let's just say it was good that my daughter was pre-verbal.

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