The place is consistently packed. It's not my favorite spot, I'm not huge on craft beer and prefer a diviwr atmosphere in my drinking establishments, but it's good for East Falls and I'd hate to see it forced out.

Is this on Fairmount on the edge of nolibs/poplar-ish area? It's been a few years but I feel like I used to walk past this building all the time going between my apartment and 2nd Street. Always wanted to see the apartments in there somehow haha

I've had it a few times and it seems like it's probably pretty good for what it is, I just don't really like that super thick Detroit style or whatever it is.

I'm a transplant who roots for the Ravens primarily but that 17/18 season for the eagles was just special as a football fan. Definitely one of the best narratives in Superbowl history

I did door dash for a little while and there's places like that all over. Was constantly picking up food from one just off Girard near Broad St and another one in Mantua

I feel like they do it every year? Like this story is giving me some kind of deja vu

Dude I'm loving the bird pics. Is there a Philly birding group?

Inclusionary Zoning is the type of policy you're talking about in parts of the 3rd (and 7th) districts and it's been around in those parts of Philly a few years now. Last year they voted to amend the law and it went into effect this past summer, basically turning what was an optional program that developers wanting to build in the IZ zones (parts of the districts, not the whole district) could just pay into the Housing Trust to avoid. IZ is definitely well-intentioned when it's implemented but may not necessarily help all that much, according to what I've read about it. I did a policy memo project for a class at Temple on the IZ law here in Philly, I've read a few articles about the effects of IZ on affordable housing creation in other cities and the general consensus is that it doesn't usually result in the creation of more affordable units unless the conditions are just right for the developers.

https://better-cities.org/community-growth-housing/inclusionary-zoning-hurts-more-than-helps/
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2022/02/09/in_philly_theres_no_such_thing_as_free_affordable_housing_815843.html

That's more of a difference of spelling and typography, the letters that look like f are actually s, it's just how a lot of things were written back then. Combined with spelling being less codified back then so you get stuff like fleepe = sleepe = sleep.

Old English, Middle English, and Modern English are technical linguistic terms and ways of categorizing the historical changes in the language

You probably saw one, they're not that uncommon. I saw a big one at dusk a couple weeks ago and have seen like a half dozen similar ones in my life. Like the real big ones that you can see breaking up, not just the tiny little streaks you see basically every night if you stare at a clear sky in a place with not a lot of light pollution for a while

Oof yeah that was bad but I don't think it was worse than this pic

I've always just swept it into the street, it's pretty rare to get more than a few inches here. Of course once a decade or so something will come along that drops 20 inches but most are 6 or less

"stoop swiper"