ABC News just did a major hatchet job on Philly's reputation - Page 12 - PhillyBlog

emckelvy · #**111** (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 01:02 PM

Well up in Harlem, Major League Baseball plans to move it headquarters to this building, 21 stories, to be built ion 125th St & Park Ave:

This would have been impossible 15-20 years back.

MarketStEl · #**112** (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 01:11 PM

To map emckelvy's post onto Philly, this would be like, say, the Pew Charitable Trusts announcing it would build a new headquarters building at the Broad-Erie-Germantown intersection.

--Sandy, who feels a profound sadness whenever he sees the empty mini-skyscraper currently at that intersection

KByrd · #**113** (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by MarketStEl

One man's meat, as they say...

The little park across from the Stonewall is Sheridan Square Park, the other local feature for which the Christopher Street subway station is named.

It has nicely landscaped brick paths and a sculpture honoring the gay and lesbian community (acknowledging indirectly the famous 1969 riot at the bar across the street that is considered the birth of the modern gay liberation movement). The park got a complete makeover around 2000.

When last I passed that way, last summer, I hadn't noticed it as being particularly dirty or trashy. I see worse on the streets adjacent to the Italian Market every Saturday.

Sandy, you're making it sound like an entry for a travelogue! It's not!
The last time I was in the neighborhood, last Fall, I saw more bums there
than I've seen in NYC in quite some time. In fact it made me think of how
Logan Circle used to look before its make-over.

tbdiscovery · #**114** (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by MarketStEl

I don't think that Morningside Park is quite the muggers' paradise it was in 1976, but the neighborhood downhill from Columbia is still a little sketchy, IIRC. The area immediately west of Columbia, towards Riverside Drive and Park, is OK, AFSAIK.

Thank you for the insight on both universities. I've recently applied for positions at each.

PuntLemon · #**115** (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Foodie

It was balanced...90% of the city is in a steep decline and 10% is on the upswing. That's about the same negative/positive ratio as the news piece.

There is more to Philadelphia than Center City....and it ain't good. I think the nation should know what the city is ACTUALLY like from objective journalism, not what the GPTMC wants you to believe.

That is just a bad statement.

Populations of Philadelphia

NW Philly 120,000
Far NE Philly 262,000
Center City 90,000
University City/Spruce HIll 50,000

Thats 520,000 people that are living pretty well. Thats close to the Population of Boston just in those 4 sections of the city.

You could probably add another 500,000 people that are doing ok. Neighborhoods like Packer Park,Port Richmond,Fishtown,PennsportTacony,Overbrook Park,Cobbs Creek,International City,South Philly,beginning of the Northeast.

Looking at the zip code stats. Its almost a perfect pie chart. 1/3 doing very well, 1/3 stable working class, 1/3 is a train wreck such as N Philly, SWPhilly ,parts of West Philly.

Hospitalitygirl · #**116** (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by PuntLemon

That is just a bad statement.

Populations of Philadelphia

NW Philly 120,000
Far NE Philly 262,000
Center City 90,000
University City/Spruce HIll 50,000

Thats 520,000 people that are living pretty well. Thats close to the Population of Boston just in those 4 sections of the city.

You could probably add another 500,000 people that are doing ok. Neighborhoods like Packer Park,Port Richmond,Fishtown,PennsportTacony,Overbrook Park,Cobbs Creek,International City,South Philly,beginning of the Northeast.

Looking at the zip code stats. Its almost a perfect pie chart. 1/3 doing very well, 1/3 stable working class, 1/3 is in real real shape like N Philly, SWPhilly ,parts of West Philly.

You can write until your fingers fall off, but you will never get the likes of Foodie, sonnetdoom and suntory to ever agree with anything that smacks of the realistic and positive. They would far prefer to jump on the negatives and just bash, bash, bash to justify their little lives. So be it. Notice, they never, ever comment on the positive threads such as the one started yesterday about the "Artistic nirvana" in the City and why people move here.

tudor · #**117** (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 10:34 PM

Didn't catch this, but if it was a Philly vs. NYC type of thing, there have been about 4 homicides/suicides in the past 48 hours in NY, from a woman jumping from the 19th floor of the UN to an ex-cop getting shot in his home to a 14-yo Bronx girl whose father tried to dispose of her remains in the furnace. The trend is up.

brickyard boy · #**118** (**permalink**) 02-19-2008, 06:31 PM

we had 4 homicide/suicides in less than 24 hours a couple of nights ago on this end
so...BOOYAKASHA