Your comment forced a recall of a Star Trek New Generation episode with the Ferengi.
Posted on 03/03/2014 4:21:10 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
PEOPLE FROM all over Philadelphia came together Saturday to tell their stories about gentrification at the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia.
Organizers had issued fliers calling for an "emergency town hall" to confront a "crisis facing black Philadelphia: the demise of our neighborhoods."
In gentrification, some neighborhoods are targeted for revitalization - but the new development leads to huge rent or property-tax increases that often force longtime residents out.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Your comment forced a recall of a Star Trek New Generation episode with the Ferengi.
IDIOTS!
Who built the neighborhoods.
I think the real complaint is, “who in da hell want to live in a clean slum?”
The picture in the article is at 20th and Fitzwater, which is in South Philly, not north; it’s about a mile from where my Italian great-grandparents had their pharmacy prior to the Depression, at 10th and Christian. Before the neighborhood was Italian, it was Swedish, and before that it was Irish, and before that it was English. ‘Hoods change.
Yeah well, they do the same thing here in DT Los Angeles. Unfortunately for the white libtards, the city is still called East Los Angeles LOL
Keep white people out! They cause our property values to go up!
North Philly was German, Polish, Lithuanian and generally central and eastern European from 1900 to the postwar years. Then the blacks came up from the South. By the time I left the Philadelphia area in 1971, North Philly was known as “The Jungle”, and by its own inhabitants.
talk to the supreme court
You are correct; and that area has been gentrifying for the past 30 years. It's just Center City spreading a little farther south as high-rise office buildings and stores push residents out of Center City and farther out in the ring around the main area, "Vine to South and River to River." Fitz is only two blocks south of South Street. It's not like a bunch of white people suddenly arrived in the depths of North Philly and bought up a few blocks.
That said, 50 years ago people said "Vine to Pine and River to River", so the outward push from Center City has gobbled up some blocks. Since the 60s, people have developed different patterns: although people have smaller families and fewer people living in each household, they now have one or more cars per adult, as opposed to one car for the whole family in the old days. Many acres of city real estate are now devoted to parking spaces, either commercial or private.
Save the Trayvons!
I mindlessly got on the wrong SEPTA train leaving 30th Street... and so had to detrain at North Philly... not a place one wants to be at night.
We lived in Germantown until 1955, when things began to change.
I wouldn’t want to be there during the day either.
How dare white people come in and renovate dilapidated properties. No wonder the blacks are incensed.
Oh, wait, that can’t be right. It’s white people who want to keep blacks out of white neighborhoods. It’s impossible that blacks would want to keep whites out of black neighborhoods because blacks aren’t capable of being racists. I know because that’s what the Just-Us Brothers said.
There was a large Italian population in Germantown until the postwar years. The composer Vincent Persichetti came from that area. My late mother dated Vince’s cousin.
I thought you guys made this up. Then I read the article. OMFG
How dare they cleanup what THEY have destroyed so very well over all these years. Are they capable of doing this themselves? yes they are! but this would take responsibility, morals, family values, hard work and a realization that the politicains and thier very own have been screwing them and holding them down for years. It is much easier to fight over crumbs thier black plantation owners throw thier way for thier vote.
Oh, man, you’ve NAILED IT there!
^5!
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