Chinatown has businesses from a ton of different countries, not to mention that China is a huge country and contains lots of subcultures.

If you're talking about the subway and el - maybe you're dumb. They have route maps in every station and directional signage (although City Hall is a fucking nightmare to navigate even so).

If you're talking about buses, forget about it. I have no idea how I, if I were a noob to Philly, would figure out anything bus-related without just using Google Maps transit mode.

Just reposting this to make sure everyone who sees the thread sees it: They are still issuing fines, per a city employee who emailed me this: "We still issue fines just continue to report violation if you wish for the distributor to be fined. The fine is now $300 for each violation."

God fucking dammit

I just heard back from someone operating that city email account that they are still issuing fines: "No, it is not true. We still issue fines just continue to report violation if you wish for the distributor to be fined. The fine is now $300 for each violation."

Edit: The Inky article from this past summer notwithstanding, I just heard from a city employee (answering via the email address mentioned below) that L&I is still issuing fines: "No, it is not true. We still issue fines just continue to report violation if you wish for the distributor to be fined. The fine is now $300 for each violation."

You may or may not be aware of the city's circular-free decal program which is supposed to allow you to prevent trash from being thrown at your house/onto your porch/left in your mailbox under the guise of advertising for supermarkets and restaurants. The idea is: you apply for the program and get your home on the list; the city sends you a sticker to post; and whenever someone leaves trash on your property in violation of the sticker, you can report it and the business where said trash originated gets fined $100 per violation.

The website linked above is very vague on details, not even being very clear on what email you're supposed to send reports to. I just send them to vending@phila.gov as that's the only email listed on that page, but never received any response until recently.

Anyway, last week somebody actually replied to my email. It was to notify me that I had checked a box on my application not authorizing my address to be eligible for reports and fines. That was obviously a mistake on my part, so I fixed it.

Anyway, they also sent me the flier (see images) with more details on how you're supposed to report violations. Apparently they want a photo that includes the circular-free sticker on your home, and the offending fliers, in the same photo; and also a photo that clearly shows the name/address/phone number of each flier that was left. In addition you need to specify your address (obviously) as well as the date/time the flier was left (I'm sure you can estimate on the time...can't see how that's relevant or enforceable). It also makes slightly clearer that vending@phila.gov is the correct email address to send violation reports to.

Anyway, mostly just posting this because I want everyone to know about this program. Someone actually is checking the inbox where these reports go to. If we all get these stickers and all report all the violations, hopefully this practice of throwing trash all over entire city blocks in hopes of drumming up a little additional business will be abandoned for good.

> Defund, dismantle,

Isn't this redundant

It's also as far as the article goes toward answering the question in the headline.

I have no idea honestly, but 470k is absolutely insane for that location.

This made me curious and I checked out the Sold option on Zillow. Closest thing I see is a 3 bed/3 bath house at 62nd and Walnut for $245k from earlier this year. That is a pretty bananas price for that far west and does speak to a wild market, but I'm not seeing 400k. That number just started to show up for larger houses in the 52-5300s at the height of low-interest-rate real estate boom.

There are some people with clearly no grasp on what the market will actually support, listing houses like this at 62nd and Ellsworth for laughable prices. But I don't see the real gentrification wave reaching that far any time soon.

This isn't necessarily new. I used to get screwed by this when taking the 64 from South Philly back home to West. Instead of continuing all the way north to Fairmount Park, once in a while it would without warning stop at 49th and Woodland and dump everybody out. Not a fun time when you suddenly have to walk an extra mile+ to get home late at night when you're already tired.

West Philly is a huge and diverse place. If you’re talking about University City, that’s nothing new or surprising in the slightest.

Cobbs Creek is certainly starting to gentrify (as people get priced out of east of 52nd) which is newer, but also was predictable enough if prices in Cedar Park continued to get unreasonable. And I don’t know if it’s really all that hot now, notwithstanding some eyebrow-raising sale prices during the height of the boom prior to interest rates going up.

Fuckin' A, man.

But watch: the media is so desperate to default back to their pre-Trump both-sidesism that they're going to latch onto him and treat him just like he's George H. W. Bush or something. They're already tripping over themselves to lavish free media attention on him, making the exact same mistake they made with Trump in 2015-16.

0% surprised that this was a Republican hate crime. The more Republican politicians make LGBT people the targets of their hate campaigns, calling them groomers and accusing them of being pedophiles, the more this shit is going to keep happening.

Keep that in mind when the media starts presenting Ron Desantis as the moderate alternative to Trump and going on and on about how reasonable he is. He made attacking gay kids and teachers one of the centerpieces of his political campaign. Fuck him and everyone who voted for him.

Maybe if you have a fatbike with studded tires.

Biking is absolute suicide for about a week, give or take, after a major snowstorm. All the snow gets plowed into the bike lanes/sides of streets, so you're competing with cars for much-reduced lane space. And god help you if it re-freezes after plowing.

>Get a life and stop shoehorning crime into every single discussion.

This will happen very abruptly on Nov. 9, just like it does after election day every year.