Cersei

Providence Power, the availability of different classes and times as well as very knowledgeable instructors.

Then stop

Tybby

Statistically, I believe Rock & Rye is your best bet.

Rhode Island hot yoga is awesome! They have a providence and a bristol location.

I went outside my house today to go to an appointment and within 5 minutes there were three stabbings and had to hide from a drive by with an old timey gatling gun. The mean streets of Providence are getting hardcore.

What restaurant has the best Ceaser salad?

Do they still do Tour de Tentacle? I did it a few times, but haven't seen anything post covid at least.

I can attest it is a solid organization.

According to his alarmist ass, literally ANYWHERE in Providence you will get stabbed, skinned and lit on fire at any time

he was good.

$20 dresses. $50 parking.

I can't hate on the Macy's because the bathrooms come in clutch.

That Old Navy at downtown crossing cements Boston as the most tragically uncool city in America.

The ham-fisted Boston solution to short term profits. High rents and skyrocketing property values don't just price out residents. Hard to say with Yoleni's as the owners seemed relatively affluent and service variable, but I don't want a downtown solely composed of banks and crunchy mom chains like Boston/Cambridge 2.0 these days.

This is basically "what's the worst neighborhood?" Hmm I'll go with Manton.

The tears of brown students about to take their orgo midterms

You should ask @previous_floor. He knows all the good stabbing spots.

This is the way

Brutal

If I'm going to get stabbed by a bunch of Italian dudes, I'm going to do it properly and just go to Johnston.

Eyesore? Who gives a shit it’s a building in a city lol

I had all sorts of stuff missing when I was there. I even had two driver’s licenses sent by the dmv missing.

Need more housing

Except it’s definitely not doing everything right. Taxes and rents are both really high, and doing business with the city is a nightmare. The city government really doesn’t seem to care if businesses succeed or fail.

Let’s take the strategy of making downtown more pedestrian-friendly by, in part, intentionally making it more difficult to drive in, or into, or park, in the city.

Ie, “Let’s make it harder to drive, and nearly impossible to park for free, and people will switch to walking, bikes, and scooters!”

What keeps getting lost over and over in this conversation is the fact that the viability of Downtown Providence depends on the participation of many people who live in the greater Providence area, but not in the city itself. aka ‘Greater Providence’.

In the 80s and 90s and aughts, it was very common for people from the surrounding suburbs and exurbs to come into downtown Providence for a night of fun.

But due to a bunch of shitty trends, including political polarization, inadequate policing, and false news, that seems to be much less the case today.

You can only tell suburbanites and their cars to fuck off for so long before a lot of them start listening.

Combine these factors with the hollowing out of office jobs due to work from home, and the Providence renaissance might be in danger of truly stalling out.

This got posted a few days ago (30 person brunch) and someone recommended Waterman Grille.