I read your comment and appreciate your observations for sure. But to be clear, is this an area of expertise for you? Because I also saw a comment from a person who does this as their work professionally.

Only lived in canton/hoghlandtown area but Verde has a wood oven 800° thats pretty dope even compared to ny original Lombardis (some are even better)

Isabella’s

Exciting? Depends on where you are and how far you like to walk. My part of Highlandtown is mostly quiet ish considering it’s a ton of rowhomes. But down on Eastern or Fleet (sort of Canton) there’s a lot there and a lot that goes on. This neighborhood does a bunch of community events and has a thriving neighborhood association. There’s often stuff at the park on warm days, lots of sports, and as others said, so much food and drink. There are at least three breweries (Monument City, Mobtown, and Ministry) along the periphery of the neighborhood too. We even have groceries and a fairly large branch of the Enoch Pratt library!

I moved here a year ago, and I’ve never been happier to live somewhere in my entire life. A couple months ago, my block came together to add cafe lights down the street, and now it feels like Christmas every god damn day and I love it.

If you’re looking for dense urban rowhome living that’s walkable to Stuff, there are more lively neighborhoods, like Fed, Hampden, or Canton, but this one isn’t bad; for me it’s just the right mix of quiet rows abutting busy main streets. And it’s just out of the way enough that we don’t get a ton of frat boy parties in my area (unlike Canton and Fells).

Parking still sucks, unless you have a parking pad tho

thanks for the heat warning hahaha I’m definitely doing it this winter

I second it as well, but it's spelled Hersh's

I Love Al Pacino's ! Used to go to the Read St. location. Really miss that place.

Did it as a group of couples. Lots of fun and you keep the thing you make. Was a great time. We went during the winter and it was still super hot inside.

Rowhouses, hon!

glass blowing at McFadden! https://mcfaddenartglass.com/services/make-your-own-activities/ I've been wanting to do this for so long

Walters Art Museum. Topside for a great view of Baltimore… cocktails are better than the food. Mt Vernon marketplace for drinks and food..

If you want to stay there, Hotel Revival is awesome. ( topside is on the top floor) The Corner suites are amazing. All of this is on the same block basically.

Love birrotecca. I forget what it's called but they do a pizza with pork belly and hot honey that is incredible.

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Blend your own whiskey at Baltimore Spirits Company is fun! Check out cooking classes at Schola or Baltimore Chef Shop as well.

Tilted Row has a really good date night special on Fridays.

Set out a separate can with a bag inside labeled “for dog poop only”. I’ve seen this done before. Hella cool community service. You should stop most poop from going in your can AND be the hero of your neighborhood.

A more helpful local answer would be Verde or Paulie Gee’s — sorry! I just love to plug Frank’s whenever possible haha

Not in the area but well worth the drive - Frank Pepe’s in Bethesda. It’s a Connecticut establishment that recently opened the MD location. Would HIGHLY recommend. There’s also one that recently opened in Alexandria!

Top Golf!

That's the thing. This doesn't seem to be well thought out. From the looks of it it appears to be holding onto the land for the sake of holding on to the land.

The last thing that neighborhood needs is even MORE concrete. Fix the houses up sell them and be done with it.

Yes. How often would it even be used? From a practical sense it's pretty clear that these houses need to be rebuilt.

I do wonder why they were given to the church in the first place?

OK. You’ve obviously left the world of the reasonable at this point. No thanks.

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I agree with you absolutely especially when it's not for the public to use.

Fix up the houses (somebody) and use them for people to live in.

Oh that's good to know

With the current pay raise, it’s only $76k, which is about the same as early career tech or cleared gov contractor pay — translation: not that much for a professional working in a senior leadership role.

We are fortunate that Baltimore has a relatively low cost of living compared to the rest of this area, and that’s easily enough to support a family and own a home here, but not much more than that. I’m surprised anyone who can get elected wants to do more than 2 terms at that salary, actually, except… that pension! (For reference, Mosby makes about 135k, Scott makes just shy of 200k, and most members of congress make ~175k. Maryland legislature only makes 50k, but I imagine they may not be in session often enough to prevent most of them from working full time jobs elsewhere. (I honestly have no clue how busy city council work is though)

I’m not saying their new pension rule is good of course. But I definitely understand where they’re coming from with the new term limits rule (it’s still corrupt though).

OP, u/2468975, if you wanna start gathering signatures, I’d sign a petition. But maybe give them a choice with the legislation:

Either they restore 20-year pensions to police and firefighters, or they restore 12-year pension to the council. Maybe have the voters vote on both as separate measures!