Honestly though it was a total ghost town before. I don’t know when she moved in, but my friend has been a long time resident of Westminster and says it’s so much more lively then it was a decade ago.

Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?

Thank you!

Haha yes, and my eyes are not happy about it 🤭 thanks for the recommendation!

Thank you! I'll look them up

I think that's Opt.

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Downtown PVD was doing quite well before C19 hit. When I walk around now, especially after 5 PM it's looking really sad (there are a few bright spots). "Work from Home" is taking a toll on downtowns all over the country. Hopefully with the many residential projects coming online our downtown will revive in the next few years, it has tons of potential.

Shame this wasn't considered a decade ago when NJT retired its ALP44 locomotive fleet... The MBTA could have purchased those locomotives for service along the Providence line.

Recently moved here less than a year ago. My only experience with this place was over the summer while I was out and about downtown doing some street photography of the city architecture. A woman who I assume was one of the owners or employees came outside and got in my face and started very aggressively demanding that I tell her what I was doing and what I was taking pictures of. I was across the street next to the church and was facing the complete opposite direction of Yoleni’s so I don’t know why she felt inclined to approach me.

When she finally walked away she went inside and went behind counter so she was definitely not just some random person. Was such a bizarre and uncomfortable experience that left a bad taste in my mouth and prevented me from ever giving them my business.

Bummer but their service was terrible since Covid. And the kitchen was a bit inconsistent.

The only time I ever went in there, there were at least 12 people working and we were the only ones in there.

These are great ideas, now if only I could get a date...

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I really like my eye doctor, Dr. Bertherman on Broad: https://www.eyedocs-ri.com

The place isn’t called “Weird Fiction Arts and Sciences”. Literally it is named after a horrible bigot and white supremest who admired Hitler and wanted to gas Chinatown, among many other terrible idea. Google the name of his cat for gods sake.

They sell tote bags and t-shirts with his likeness on them. They advocated for putting a statue of the man on public land. They have a weekend long celebration of him on his birthday. And had to issue an apology for some of the speakers espousing white supremest rhetoric at the celebration.

My argument is that this is very much a celebration of the man as much as it about his stories. “Sure he was an absolutely horrific person that wanted all non-whites wiped off the face of the planet, but I like a few of his stories so I’m cool with it”. It has strong “But Mussolini got the trains running on time” vibes.

There are many great Greek restaurants in Providence, but the retail area of Yoleni's was unique and really well stocked. Sad to see it go!

Damn, I’d get lunch there at least once a week.

Thanks, sounds like a good idea.

“Parking Lot” Paolino? No way he would understand that.

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No I didn’t see anything like that!

It's somewhere close to that but it's expensive and only runs a handful of times per day. It only stops at 128 between Providence and Boston. EMUs on the commuter rail would stop at all the other stations in between and still make it to Boston in 45 minutes. The electrification plan also includes increased frequencies of at least every 30 minutes all day

Is that the place with naked mannequins with glasses?

They are more about the Arkham Mythos that August Derleth kept relevant.