I applaud you for speaking up about this BIG quality of life issue. I sent e-mails to both Mike Nutter & Tom Knox’s campaigns last month on this topic. I’ve also contacted Penndot. I really think your paper should pursue this topic further. I myself, am a little tired of hearing about drug-dealers being gunned down. I know that’s a little more of “hot” topic but frankly that’s all we ever read about. The cleanliness of this city is something that we CAN do something about. (Unlike the murder rate) I challenge your paper to go drive down the Boulevard in the N.E. .. It’s atrocious!! (& that’s in one of the nicer parts of Philly) Then go check Broad & Girard …disgusting. You guys should send a camera crew to those spots, take a few pictures & you write the story . That’s what I want to see on the front page next week. Maybe then Penndot (who’s in charge of cleaning the BLVD.) and the Philly dept. of streets will get off their rumps & clean up our city. (But forgive me if I don’t hold my breathe J)
Steve Kennedy
NE Philadelphia
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" I myself, am a little tired of hearing about drug-dealers being gunned down."
Words can not express how ignorant and disrespectful that remark is. Is Mr. Kennedy aware that drug dealers are not the only ones being killed. Children are being shot and so are other innocent bystanders. A few months ago a hard working young man was killed in his own home when a bullet came through his bedroom windown. Gun violence is a real and serious issue. "Bad" people are not the only ones being killed. I understand that its more comfortable to assume that all of the 165+ homicide victims this year did something wrong to deserve what happened to them, but that's simply not a reality. Philly's cleanliness or lack thereof is an important issue that should be taken seriously, but no one has the right to deprecate the value of human lives.
Posted by The Griot | June 2, 2007 8:12 AM
Posted on June 2, 2007 08:12
The trash situation in Philly is deplorable. I have lived in Washington, D.C., Manhattan, LA, Hartford, CT., Cherry Hill NJ & Chicago. Philly by far has the most trash in the streets and on sidewalks and seems to lack the pride of the other cities to address this matter directly. Washington, D.C. is by far the cleanest city on the east coast.
One of Philly's dirtiest areas is on Delaware Ave between Spring Garden and Callowhill - the site of the failed world trade center...This is a large outdoor trash can for the club patrons, homeless and restaurant patrons who park in the area.
Actions speak louder than words and Philly has no pride to address the dirt in the streets. Even Society Hill & Rittenhouse are dirty when compared to similiar hoods in Washington D.C, & NYC and Baltimore.
Are the new Mayor and city council capable of restoring pride in Philly? Only time will tell.....
Posted by Bill Brent | June 3, 2007 8:16 AM
Posted on June 3, 2007 08:16