Some facades are actually bearing walls. The houses on my block have the floor span between party walls but the roof span front-to-back. You need an architect and maybe an engineer involved.

Chances are, a skilled contractor can do it themselves, but the liability involved is too high.

>ne of the big pulls in tourism is the graveyard where Mother Goose is buried?!

Our big pull is a broken bell with literally no significance other than being old...

Except when your neighbors get up in arms about using trash cans instead of loose bags...

So is Philly...

This true. I built an emergency food bin in Feb 2020 (I saw what was coming). We opened the water this past summer and it was AWFUL.

Glass jugs may be the way to go if possible.

Nah. Too many Philadelphians park like this too.

Part of the trouble is capitalism as it currently exists. If these areas are "improved," the jobs going in will still mostly be blue-collar/service jobs with limited wages and advancement opportunities. We're not suddenly going to build lawyers and doctors. The desperation that comes from current-age capitalism will still exist. Selling drugs or resorting to other crime may still pay better than the jobs that come from development. You've improved the neighborhoods, great, but even with solidly middle-class incomes, will there be enough local demand for goods and services to sustain the local businesses?

The solution will likely need to be mixed income residential (which is seemingly impossible to achieve organically) or dense commercial that is a cross-city attraction (East Passyunk, Fairmount, Fishtown, etc.).

Unless we're taking care of me!

No ice in beer and wine, or if the ice box is big enough to hold a few days worth. But otherwise, yes.

Even when the alert happened, the city said that dishes could be washed in the water - just not directly consuming it.

Sounds like bars and breweries will be open, though, plastic cups and tanks filled with water before midnight.

PGW/PWD always doing the best work in the city.

Oh my yes! Flown proudly

Confederate flags

Until you’re dead

I just missed the chance to get on the BFB from 95 North (Callowhill left exit). I had to go up to Betsy Ross and come back down south.

At that time they completely closed 95 south from Girard to 676. Why...?

Honor the fallen office, but use city streets, not highways during rush hour. We can collectively mourn without being late and losing money.

>back in the day the neighbors were respected & helped keep an eye out on the kids on the block

That's not our culture anymore.

And I agree with your above statement, but if parents are working multiple jobs, then they may have less time/ability to be active in their children's lives.

There were always be the cloud of personal responsibility hanging over everything, but when the system is stacked against success...

Until every parent can work 1 or 0 jobs and provide a good life for their kids nothing will change.

It’s also cultural. The teens feel they need to compete and act in violence. That’s cultural. Criminal TikTok challenges is cultural.

UPS store can plot for you. 24" wide x ??? Long

This is what I was thinking when everyone was praising the 9 year old who "graduated high school."

What kind of education did he really receive? Was it truly worthy of the diploma?

Because this what they’ve “always done.” It’s the refrain of the native Philly asshole

Call me a scaredy-cat, but in today's retribution culture, I'm not sure I want people who have been involved in violence in a public situation like that. We've had too many killings right after people are released from prison.

You can rent entire homes in North Philly for less than $1,000

I agree. The scenario was not immediately obvious to me, so I asked for clarification.

There are reasons why I'm not a truck driver.

Sweet, thanks! Not sure why the downvotes, though.