If you’re talking about the development townhouses I think you are… people are absolutely willing to buy them. Just need more businesses in some of the lower levels I think.

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People from upper roxborough who drive everywhere are upset the new apartments in manayunk will block the view of the bridge from main street. As if their view was more important than housing demand

This is a fucking embarrassment.

Oh get out. I didn’t know about this. Their pizza any good? Shackamaxon’s, that is.

Whoa! Now that’s some good news.

I don’t know. This is exactly what Memphis and Hazzard felt like in 2007 when I first moved there.

It makes the whole neighborhood smell like toast. Took me a while to figure it out. I thought everyone really liked toast in the morning.

Yeah, the 15 bus works just fine. It’s easier to get to Johnny Brenda’s on the bus than car or bike right now.

You hit the nail on the head. This is so true. I live a few blocks from that wawa and Sunoco and to be honest, they’ve had that homeless element for about 15-20 years. It’s gotten worse the last few years though.

In the city where libraries were invented. Way to go Philly!

Hard to fund a functional school district when federal policies siphoned away money to suburban sprawl instead of supporting the cities that built this nation. It’s a sad state of affairs.

I was there too and was really impressed with that little 3 or 4 block area.

The 15 had a detour and made me walk from Aramingo down and while nicer than I honestly expected, I got the vibe that if I looked different than the white guy I am, it might not be the best place to be walking alone.

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Sound couldn't have been worse than modern day Franklin music hall.

My lazy Googling suggests that this is exactly the problem, and that Philly has the worst ratio of libraries to schools in the country. That's awful.

My wife and I bought in Olde Kensington in 2019. Love the area.

It’s literally a difference zip code.

I’m not sure there are only 7 libraries, I think there are 7 librarians in the district. There are some schools that have libraries but they are run by teachers or parents. A lot of times schools have the books but no one with the time to keep them organized enough that they can be lent out.

i mean considering those library numbers i wouldn't be surprised if it was two different guys 🙃 but i love that for him. i'm not sure how often the guy in fairmount is there but he brings in a plastic bag with what must be at least a week's worth of newspapers and kinda just flips through em

honestly it should be the very last thing they target

it could be, this guy shows up to my store in cc once a week but comes in at the exact same time and day. i don’t think he’s ever had newspapers though, just celebrity drama magazines 😂

without asking you to give away your personal work info, i wonder if this is the guy that i've seen frequently ask people to help read newspapers to him at one of the stores i go to in fairmount? he asked me to help one time when i was in line and i did but thought it was a bit odd, but then i went back another day and another dude in line was reading to him and i was like oh, this guy just wants to know the news but can't read

Sadly, libraries are often the first target of budget cuts in education.