We don’t talk about the secret libraries

Bonks is pretty decent, and as my closest bar, I go relatively frequently. Decently priced and the food is actually pretty good for pub fare, offers a good spread of seafood like many of the neighborhood bars. Also like so many bars in the neighborhood, the vibe can be a little "off" sometimes depending on the night, the crowd, and crew working. Sometimes the music sucks and is way too loud, but overall it's a chill bar with good service and decent food

Welcome to city living.

When I moved from Doylestown to Philly, my rate dropped by $27 a month. When my fiancé moved in from Conshy, hers dropped by $18.

Call around for better rates.

What does investment and development in areas like that look like? Because that sounds like gentrification which pushes people out because the people living there probably won't get "better jobs", at best there might be more local jobs - but I don't think there is a general lack of jobs in the city overall, menial or otherwise. Fundamentally.... Im coarse and would rather see the development and remove the blight and hope the people either find a better job or a new place to live.

WE get it. Go tell someone who can do something about it

Agree. It seems like it's become a hub for Slavic families, with many still entering and investing in the neighborhood, so I'm not too worried

Just wish they would figure out a way to connect it to Richmond St and beyond in a way that makes sense. As it is now, it just sort of ends leaving you to ride on the sidewalk or take your chances on that weird part of Delaware. As a super experienced city cyclist, I've gotten it mostly figured out, but for the less experienced it would be daunting

I don't think we do. The paradigm hasn't shifted. Still "dope and guns on the table" and "muh police officers arrested 200 dudes with illegal guns but muh krasner let 'em go". And the smoothbrains are still on the "cameras in public are literally Orwell 1984" logic line.

So nah...imma have to say we don't get it

Are they functionally illiterate because of a lack of libraries in schools? Sure, it's not helping, but it seems unlikely that people who cannot read are going to spend a lot of time in their school's library.

Anyone who graduates and is functionally illiterate has been failed by the school system and their parents. How can a school fail to recognize an obvious lack of education yet repeatedly promote them into the next grade or graduate from high school without being taught one of the most basic skills?

Amazing. Every day I am feeling more and more justified about my decision to buy here.

Part of MANDATORY 4K is addressing social iniquities.

This looks like cleaning sidewalks, keeping streets litter free, vacant land clear and clean, vacant housing kept up to standards(with a cost associated), planting trees, upgrading parks and playgrounds, funding better and more after school programs and initiatives, getting rid of abandoned vehicles, expanding funding to and improving the implementation of the "basic repairs program", tangled title help, expungement clinics, streamlining basic city job opportunities.

And all of the above need to be consistent and well managed. Actually solving crime is half the issue, the other half is the above plus increasing opportunities for people.

It's all part of MANDATORY 4K

No, WE get it. As a society we do not get it yet.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40216907.html

"Europol said the use of “younger and inexperienced” hitmen and the easier access to firearms have driven the problem."

Sound Familiar?

Yes

I went from 600 a year to 1500 a year moving from outside the city to fishtown.

Agree on the cop bar tip. I want to enjoy so many of the local bars like Gaul & Co, Bonks, Byrnes, Debbies have so much potential, but there's just something just "off" about them

As far as El access, I'm not sure I agree there. Granted I live close to the Westmoreland terminal, but it typically takes me 10 mins to get from there to Frank and Girard, making access to CC really painless, other than when the El breaks down, which is pretty frequently. Also, easy access to 95 is pretty awesome

My school in Philly had no library. The classrooms had a small selection of books, but that was the extent of it. However, it never felt like a handicap because the public library was easy to get to even for a kid.

Central has a very nice library which I enjoyed while going there. However towards the end of my time there, they were asking alumni and parents to run it. It was nice but honestly most used it more for the computers and magazines

Honestly, it's under 10 during non-peak hours. The bus can really fly down Delaware and then if it doesn't stop many times going down Girard its taken me as little as 7/8 minutes to get from Westmoreland to Frankford before

listen to this man.

Sincerely, an underwriter.

Kids shooting kids

edit: This is getting downvoted but it's pretty important when thinking about why this is happening, who's doing it, and how we work on fixing it.

Definitely still hipsters living in Fishtown. Not the punky hipster paradise it once was, but there are still plenty of young creatives there. Still possible to find affordable rentals, although they are not as widespread as they once were.

By at least 3-4 years. I don't think that La Colombe opened until 2015/16

Speaking of internet rage bait...

This "only 7" stat seems to be about how many schools have certified librarians -- not the number of schools that have libraries.

Couple of things about that:

• Libraries seem to be under-invested in, and some schools don't have them. Agreed.
• I don't know the number of schools with libraries. It probably depends a lot on how you define a library, but I would bet a bunch of money that if you use a normal-person definition like "a dedicated area with a sufficient number of books and a borrowing system," then the number is much higher than 7.
• I was never clear on what our school librarians did, and I'm still not. Did they need a certification to keep the shelves stocked, answer questions, and recommend books? Are students even coming to school librarians to ask questions or ask for book recommendations these days?
• Stop the internet rage bait, please, or at least the irony of calling out internet rage bait in an internet rage bait post.