Sorry for the interruption, Passyunk Sq., but the no-man's land you refer to is in fact someone's land and it's called Dickinson Narrows - Philadelphia's newest old neighborhood! News to you perhaps, but important to those of us who've lived here for decades. We're happy to be neither Passyunk Sq. nor Pennsport.

When my home was built (1849) the area south of Cedar (South Street today) was an incorporated town called Southwark (which included Passyunk Square, by the way - or is it Passyunk Triangle now?). Much may have changed in the way of names, people, attitudes, etc. but mercifully, the building still stands, no matter how provincial and tribal its inhabitants become.

Being possessive about your community can be a good thing if it reflects the care you provide to your neighborhood; but being 'exclusive' about it is not a good thing and has led to too much conflict in what should be a beautiful city without borders. "Oh, I'm from here, I'm from there"...Gimme a break!

Given that rationale, if it weren't for gravity, the earth would be telling the moon to "get lost." Come to think of it, that would mean we wouldn't have tides, which would also mean that we'd have no marshlands, which would therefore mean that the areas formerly known as Southwark, Moyamensing, and Passyunk would have succumbed to the Schuyllkill and the Delaware rivers long before most bloggers ancestors would have arrived and would, as a result, have no ground to stand on. Just a thought!