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Ng3me t1_j5qd3xt wrote

If Street ran his 1999 campaign today, he’d have a decent chance of winning. He had baggage that nearly sunk him but the crux of his campaign was better city services and cleaning up the neighborhoods. Rendell had done most of his work in Center City but a lot of neighborhoods felt neglected. Street said he’d pick up trash, clean vacant lots, tow abandoned cars, and plow streets. People liked that then and I think would like it now. He wasn’t a great person but he campaigned on popular shit.

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ConfiaEnElProceso OP t1_j5qd9pj wrote

Did he do it?

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Ng3me t1_j5qhhvq wrote

Yeah. Mostly he did. I don’t think a lot of people grasp just how dirty and falling apart the city was outside of Center City and how small Center City was back then.

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Angsty_Potatos t1_j5u0wbw wrote

I remember grad hosp being dirty as heck and iffy in spots when I was growing up and even to when I was in college. Watching grad hospital go from iffy (I lived closer to Washington around 06 grandparents were up around 20 and Catherine) to some of the most valuable real estate in the city under Street was kinda bonkers to watch

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ConfiaEnElProceso OP t1_j5qihyo wrote

I have lived in developing countries for years and the cities i was in were much cleaner and with fewer abandoned houses than Brewerytown in 2023. I remember "Filthadelphia" from the early 90s and I'm sure it was worse then, but it is hard to conceive.

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NoWarButMyWar t1_j5qrakh wrote

You should see Brewerytown 10yrs ago before developers renamed it Brewerytown then. There’s FAR worse sections of North Philly to live in.

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_token_black t1_j5s8rpx wrote

Heck, just ask OP if they actually remember Northern Liberties in 2000. It was Club Egypt, Chrome, and that's about it.

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KFCConspiracy t1_j5s9md0 wrote

Yes, most of it. Fishtown was a place you wouldn't go in the 90s for example. That started to change under street

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