And Now, Your Hand-Drawn Neighborhood Map: QUEEN VILLAGE!
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Congrats to Jon K., who just coined “People on bikes that ride on sidewalks” as our new favorite euphemism for… Mexicans! Hiyo! Thanks, we’ll be here all week. No, really. Also: Nice hand lettering!
Anybody else want to join in the fun? Send us your hand-drawn neighborhood maps to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com and we will totally run them. And check out more neighborhood maps here on Philebrity.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
this is excellent. pretty much how i’ve always thought of our neighborhood. only thing i can tell that is missing are all the misaligned side streets (i.e., Hancock St, American St, Kenilworth, etc) that are often only existing for a block before they dead-end, and completely disorient the south-street weekend douche crowd who circles the neighborhood (generally unsuccessfully) looking for 2 hours of free parking…only to get a 36 dollar ticket roughly 2 hours and 15 minutes later from the PPA that will never be paid.
March 15th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
a PERFECT representation of our neighborhood – and best of all, I know exactly what each of those business (the good and bad) are… well done!
March 15th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
there are people on bikes that ride on sidewalks, people who ride 2 or more to a bike, and people on bikes who only ride the wrong way down one way streets. The Mexicans are not the ones on the sidewalks.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
By far the best of the maps so far, but, to get all technical, the “poor people” live in Queen Village: the boundaries are sixth through front, South to WASHINGTON. And, to quibble further, I’d say quite a few rich people live in QV as well… But great map!
March 15th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Was logging on to say just that… the guy across the street from me on Christian is trying to unload his house for $600K, and I’m sure he and his elbow patches would take umbrage at being referred to as one of the ‘poor people’.
Otherwise, pretty right on! Although I’d love to see an icon for precocious children named Declan. Cause man, I swear my block is swimming in them.
March 15th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Hardly perfect. Passyunk is waaaayyy off.
March 15th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Brickbat Books isn’t one of the stores you go to?
March 15th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
What bar is on second north of queen?
March 15th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
As much as I absolutely love to stereotype Mexcicans for riding on sidewalks (IT IS TRUE), on South St, the cops ride on the sidewalks, too.
Also, black people ride the wrong way down one way streets.
And he spelled Monroe wrong.
March 16th, 2010 at 11:48 am
Everyone bikes the wrong way down Passyunk.
March 16th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
@ltrak I’m betting they meant For Pete’s Sake and were just off by a block.
March 16th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
I was talking about Lyon’s Den but I put it on the wrong side of Queen. I fucked up a bunch of other things, too. I was doing it from memory at work. sorry.