Originally Posted by eldondre

south st hasn't been crazy and riotous in years.

Originally Posted by Oladybug

I've been living near this area for the last nine months, and I think it's a great neighborhood. In the short time that I've been here, I've seen lots of improvements particularly along the stretch of East Passyunk between Broad and Tasker, such as:

- A newly and beautifully rehabbed building at Passyunk and Mifflin that now houses Filitalia, an Italian language and culture center.

- Demolition about to begin on a building south of there where, I understand, a new cafe restaurant is going to be built.

- A relatively new and very upscale Italian restaurant/wine bar, Paradiso's, where business seems to be booming.

- A fountain at Passyunk and Tasker, which I always enjoy seeing when I walk by, especially since there's also mellow music from the '40s and '50s playing there.

- Frequent neighborhood festivities happening along Passyunk sponsored by Citizens Alliance for Better Neighborhoods. Tomorrow, for instance, they're going to have some kind of a spring festival featuring Mummers performances and sidewalk sales.

Yes, lots of good stuff is happening here.

In the minus column, at least from my own personal perspective, trash is indeed a problem around these parts. Don't ask me why, but there seems to be an awful lot of folks around here who don't mind living with trash piled up on the sidewalks, streets, and gutters in front of their homes. I don't know if it's just a part of South Philly culture or what, but I really hate it. I pick up trash in front of my home and my neighbors' properties on a daily basis, and it doesn't get better.

And, yes, it's noisy, but it's the city and there's lots of life around us. I think the sound of lots and lots of kids frolicking, while sometimes disruptive, is a good sign.

Heretofore, I've always lived in suburbia and, all things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia!

Originally Posted by ChiefSalsa

Trash is terrible around Broad and Passyunk because Broad and Snyder is a major intersection. Passyunk is a wind tunnel and the trash levitates there. Often you can find Wes Bentley with a video recorder sitting there opining.

Essentially, your problem is noise. You have two hospitals, 24 hour thrift stores(milk, bathroom products, etc.) great restaurants, good bars, fast food, SEPTA, a nice summer walk to South Street, close to a Mummer's drill site on New Year's Day, and short skirted Goretti girls. If you can live with noise it is a slam dunk. Go for it.

Originally Posted by stinkweed

It depends on what you call crazy. The idiots the continually drive up and down that street every weekend at 1 mph are friggin crazy.

Originally Posted by eldondre

not quiet, but a far cry from the riotous days before the mini-riot on fat tuesday some years ago.

Originally Posted by stinkweed

What is the passyunk spur of the subway I heard you talking about? Atleast I thought it was you. BTW, I was living on LOmbard that year and my roomate and I walked down south street that night about an hour or so before all the stuff started. I can't explain it, I didn;t witness anything going on, but we both got to about 6th st and turned back because you could feel something was brewing.