Author: Gil

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What are Frankford’s boundaries?

That is a good question that I raised a while ago. For the lack of a better authority, I have decided to go along with the Cartographic Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania who has created a very nifty web presence for neighborhoods called the Neighborhood Information System (NIS).

Contained in the NIS is a piece called the neighborhoodBase. Browse around there and have a look at what is available if you have not been there before. In their quest to provide useful information they have taken up the task of deciding where each neighborhood begins and ends. I don’t entirely agree with how they have arrived at Frankford but it is close enough for my purposes.

This is a link to the interactive map of Philadelphia that will let you display a map of each neighborhood in the city defined by Penn. Take a look and see if you agree with them.

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Philly.com

Every morning I check the news feeds for Frankford news. You can imagine my surprise yesterday when I read on Philly.com that there had been another murder in Frankford. The location was near Castor Avenue and Benner Street.

Further compounding my surprise was that once again some reporter had incorrectly identified the neighborhood as Frankford when it was not. Why is this such an issue? Well most importantly these news reports on the internet become history once they are out there. And now the history is wrong. We have enough crime problems without taking credit for what is happening in Oxford Circle.

So I promptly emailed the reporter who wrote the story and the editor and so far no reply. I want the report, that was posted on the web, corrected.

This is the link to the original story for the record.

Feel free to send an email of admonishment too. Maybe we can get some justice.

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Art Holiday Poll

It’s time to take down the Art Holiday poll so I wanted to recap the results. Will you miss the Art Holiday? 6 people said yes and 17 said no. I heard an interesting rumor circulating down at that end of the town that the Art Holiday is going to become a condominium community. Doesn’t seem likely but then we will see.

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Vermin again

I was coming up Wakeling street last night at about 6PM and was stopped at Torresdale avenue by the wail of police sirens. Torresdale was blocked off and Fox news and KYW were both shooting video down Torresdale toward Margaret Street. Still I couldn’t see much of anything and thought it was a lot of fuss over a fender bender.

This morning I read that some low life hit two kids, stopped to take a look and then sped off. These boys are lucky to be alive. We don’t know the circumstances of the accident. All we know is that the guy driving the vehicle didn’t stop and own up to it.

Message to the vermin: stand up and be a man.