Now that the busses are traveling on the trolley route, you can get to Frankford/Girard from Richmond/Westmoreland in 10 minutes. It almost feels like an express bus too with more space between stops on Richmond.

And we became buds in the process! Super happy for you, and thanks for the kind words! :)

I moved to Port Richmond ~6 years ago. Since then, Lunar, Nemi, Reanimator and some of the other places people have mentioned have all opened up. I was at the Flea this past weekend too, and the energy was great, and I really do feel like Port Richmond will only get better and better. I'm not sure if it'll ever be as hip as Fishtown, but once the trolley's are back I think development will take off even more.

There is so much potential here and with the proximity to Fishtown, lots of commercial space available and ready for redevelopment, and affordable housing. I'm psyched to see what happens in the next 5 years.

If the trolley ever is running again that should better connect Port Richmond to the city as a whole, but idk when that's supposed to be back in service

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For those of you looking to buy in Philly, I have to put in a quick plug for u/decentchinesefood who has to be one of the best agents in the city. I posted in the Moving Mondays thread on 02/13 and he got right in touch with helpful info. We were looking at houses by that weekend and, I'm not kidding, we're closing next Monday on a beautiful place in West Mt. Airy. That's literally like 7 weeks from looking to closing. No pressure, knew how to navigate bidding wars sensibly in a seller's market, candid about the condition/value of houses, savvy, kind. Can't recommend him enough.

Opened earlier this month!

Oh, idk. Never noticed a pee smell.

You can walk north, south, and east. Avoid west.

Ideally, you should walk a little east before walking north.

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The first thing I would do is go through all the moving Mondays threads here to collate the information. Then maybe you can ask more specific questions. There’s a preexisting wealth of information.

No the one like two years ago. I will say, it normally smelled like pee.

I've never heard anyone have a bad thing to say about Lunar. I'm not sure I even want to know... but I'm curious, what's your issue with them?

I wonder when dive bombing started to phase out. Also pretty wild to see a bombing plane at all flying over philly

Yup. This exactly.

I'll add to your list and throw out Launderette Records, Corpse Flower Tattoo... and then nearby Nemi and La Roma... as places that fit into this niche and deserve a shoutout.

edit: Also shoutout to A Frame Constructs who, I think, have helped to design and develop both many of these business (Lunar, Launderette) as well as some of the new residential building(s?) on Richmond that look super nice. Their office is on Richmond.

The robocall gave the website so quickly and incoherently. It sounded like a bunch of random letters chosen from the can they use to select ballot position.

Lunar rocks the way they open and close on a whim sucks

Technically it’s all Kensington. The church by girard and Columbia is named “First Presbyterian Church in Kensington”

But he's wrong though; Fishtown and Port Richmond have been distinctly separated by the traintracks down Lehigh Ave. since the 1870s. If he's referring to the weird triangle of "Olde Richmond", that was part of Port Richmond until they drove i95 through the neighborhood.

Update: The spill made Democracy Now's 15-minute world news report -- as did the chocolate factory explosion that killed 7 in Reading. They also ran a segment later on (it's a 1-hour podcast total) about how a quarter of humanity lacks access to clean drinking water. I'm guessing this was the only (non local) daily news roundup to address any of this. Certainly did not make NPR's Up First, NYT's The Daily, BBC Global News Podcast, or WSJ's What's News.

The refresh ? Bro, that was like 20 years ago.

Maybe they’re new, maybe they’re not, it’s a valid complaint though. I’ve been here 15 years and this shit pisses me off.

Bonks was a dump. I have not been in since the refresh.

I’ve been going to Bonk’s for 15+ years and i still never know quite what to expect when I walk in i.e. which crowd is in today.