Copy that, Melani.
I'm another completely non-Penn neighborhood type, and my own 40th St.
list includes:
(A) Things I find really, really handy in my neighborhood, that I
wouldn't find in most neighborhoods -- starting off with Melani's list:
- Campus Copy
- Natural Shoe Store
- Last Word Bookshop
- Rami's Middle Eastern food truck
- that handy post office
- the conference room at the Library, for community meetings
- Penn Police (two forces are better than one, especially if the second
one is free)
(B) to which I would add:
- the Dental School, my amazing neighborhood dentist
- Tandoor India
- Won's, which delivers in 2 feet of driving snow within 15 min
- Michael's Custom Cut
- The Bridge (it ain't perfect, but I can walk to it, which few
Philadelphians can to see a movie)
- Cliff's shoeshine, so hard to find anymore when you need one
- Pattaya Grill
- the Rotunda
And the following are usable also:
- Qdoba
- FreshGrocer
- UCD
- Metropolitan Bakery
- the Marvelous
- Nara
- A Place of Our Own
In short, I think it's a pretty good neighborhood shopping strip today.
Ten years ago it was much worse; 11 of my 22 Good Places weren't there
in 1997. So 40th St. is on the upswing, and I radically don't care who's
responsible and who isn't. It's probably a mixture, and furthermore
we'll probably never know who really did what. I would expect, on an
off-campus commercial strip, there is a complex muddle of university and
neighborhood planning.
-- Tony West
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