Center City West the ritziest part of Philly- the Rittenhouse Square area/ Walnut Street
1st
Philly
Some of downtown is underutilized
Artistic/ creative
People in Philadelphia are creative
Murals
Blue collar has a more working class feel gritty
More laid back,
More friendly
People are happier here
Maybe even more comfortable with what they have.
Even if poor?
“City of brotherly love”
People are nice more humble than in NJ/ NY
Friendlier
Are happier with less/ not as materialistic
Tallutos Italian grocery accepts food stamps? Accepts EBT Cards.
Meat shops
Touristy
PRIDE or Trans flag in south Philly
Italians and blacks get along here
Blacks frequent Italian owned businesses in Philly
Not so much in NYC.
Idk why
Maybe they historically live in close proximity to each other?
South jersey is less racist towards blacks too
You see a lot of blacks in the Italian market
You don’t see that in the NYC area.
More gritty
Mexican market one or two blocks of Mexican stores and restaurants
I saw Italian kids and Mexican kids hanging out on bikes together in the Italian market.
Italians Mexicans Vietnamese
BHI market street spruce street harbor park
Mexican fruit peddlers in South Philly
Before them, it was Italian peddlers now it’s Mexicans.
Bus older Italian lady
Ebt accepted
Two black men speaking to the waiter in a Mexican restaurant in Spanish.
Chinatown is big
Loud music by Pat’s in South Philly
Good city planning
A waterfall in the middle of nowhere
People are happy
Loud music at D’Alesandros cheese steak too
Big Chinatown
South Philly two blocks of Little Mexico
Tallutos
Even Tallutos has Thurman
I didn’t feel that much if a difference between West and South Philly
The difference isn’t night and day either.
I’ve seen some whites in West Philly
Some nice historic homes in West Phillu
Catharine street just east of 52 nice
West Indian spice fruit bun
Slurp’d black owned business
Dirty restaurants
I feel happier freeer more loving of myself here
Interracial couples here
Black man white woman
Black woman white man
Diverse tolerant cosmopolitan
People are more accepting of another here
We live together and get along even though were different
Phillys not so racist
I think it’s less racist than NJ.
Nobody cares about your race here, it seems.
Soccer field that big park south Philly
West Philly black women n braids
Di Bruno’s cheese store
Italian guy in track suit all white impeccable sneakers like black peoples
Tallutos Tortellini
Mexicans in Philly are Americanized into football the Eagles
South Philly Barbacoa
Black movements in Philly
Black Muslims
Some think they’re Jews (BHI) some think they’re Muslims (ancestry ally wise)
Bad effects of colonization
They’re confused because they cut ties with their roots
Black baby mommas
75% of all blacks born out of wedlock
I felt happier in Philly
Philly di bruno bros chestnut street (and original)
Society Hill?
Germantown
Fishtowns Frankford Avenue
Germantown Avenue - Chestnut Hill
Eastern State Pennintenary
University city 30th station
Philly museum of art
Italian Market Festival
Franklin square rittenhouse square.
Independence Hall
Chubbys steaks
The Philadelphia tribune - oldest AA newspaper in the country.
The MOVE movement?
Philly love- at a restaurant on Walnut Street, I asked for a soft drink and they gave me a cup for free.
From Angelo’s (Fiitzwater Street to Washington Avenue)
From Washington Avenue to Federal Street, it’s mostly Mexican market
Two middle class looking guys, one black and one Asian saw how Mexican the Italian market has become and they were like disgusted and like “Naw” we ain’t going there’s
It shows you how Mexicans are still looked down upon
Then you have Cannoli King, Geno’s, and Pat’s, since genos and oats are cheese steak places, and cheese steaks are an Italian American invention this is just a final continuation of the Italian Market
Fairhill - little Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican guys hanging- old and young
There’s nothing to do
Young Puerto Rican guys like white people
On the 60 way bc bus to 5th all junkies
Philly Uber driver
City
What she said about Philly is true of most major cities
Big cities there’s a lot of stuff to do
History
Ethnic diversity
I think bc they’re so many stores in the big city the competition makes it so you get really good stuff and also at really good prices.
Food
Museums, libraries, shops, events
People move to court because of job opportunities
It’s easy to make fast money even a lot of money
Uber even in her other job
Crime street smart
You have to be street smart, aware of your surroundings when in a big city
If you’re from the city, you acclimate you know how to survive, how to act, etc. when you’re in the big city.
NE and NW Philly are nice
North Philly bad
People are friendlier in Philly than NYC
I don’t see BHI anymore.
There’s these black cultured intellectual looking guys here, too.
Are they the black bourgeoisie that Hector Bonilla talks about?
She lives in the Philly suburbs and she says it’s nice and safe there.
Philly girl you look Peruan, not Peruvian lol.
Elfreth Alley
Philly
All these vacancies here on Market Street
Di Bruno’s
19.99 pecorino toscano fresco
It’s imported
Old City kind of feels like Europe
Leon H. Sullivan developed a number of major economic self help projects in the 1950s.
He also developed the Opportunities Industrializaton Center (now Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America) to help train African Americans for jobs.
Blacks are more proactive here.
Big cities provide large amounts of social capital.
I guess it’s because of all the social movements here
Extreme
MOVE, BHI, Nation of Islam
Philadelphia a little too laid back for me
One time in Central Park in NYC I saw a guy so stressed out and frenetic probably about this job
And I’m like the park is supposed to be a place for you to relax
Philadelphians are friendlier than in NYC
A lot of Indians in Philly?
Di Bruno’s they taste the cheese
Italian market now there’s Mexicans
And there’s harmony between the races
I even saw that in Chicago where whites seem to be ok with more Hispanics coming in
Not in NJ, though.
Where Hispanics come, whites just have to leave
Even Elizabeth
Heck,
Even Kearny !
Smaller version of NYC
Chicago almost exact replica
Philly
I feel bad for these kids
The worlds going to sh1t
Climate change! Wars! Conflict
That tells you the political views of the people who live here
Creative
Murals and
Live music performances.
Loving
Is Philly like the South?
Paterson small town
Tourism
The Falls
Lambert Castle garret mountain park
natural beauty
Paterson museum
History architecture? and
Ethnic enclaves
Ethnic markets
Peru square
South Paterson
Little DR
Little Colombia
In the past, you had Italian enclaves of Cianci and 21st Avenue
That’s it
Black Muslims
Will I see afghanis serving me halal fast food outside the nyc area?
Idk.
People are happy here bc you have so much to do here
Pretty White girl with black boyfriend
Talking super ghetto
The energy of the big city
Chicago perfect city planning
I saw a group of men on horses
I saw a group one time on bikes
Provolone
They call it provy
In the Di Bruno’s cheese store
Even though I didn’t buy anything,
They were still nice to me and said thanks
Chinatown is big
Philadelphia small city
Chicago big city
Is it like the South?
Feels different from the rest of NE
But I don’t think I see a lot of white people in Mexican market
I saw this open minded white woman there
But not the bros
I think a white guy lives in one of the buildings on Mexican market
Whites and blacks get along in Philly
More city harmony there
More racial harmony there.
There are black people working in Italian restaurants and grocery stores in Philly
You don’t really see that in NYC.
