Posts tagged with “Castor Avenue”

You Workin’?

12 February 2009 | Philadelphia City Paper

These are but disappearing scenes in the nervous city. Contractors, who haven’t been without work for a decade, are sitting at home. Some, behind the Tundra’s wheel, roam the city.

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Riverside’s Loss

15 November 2007 | Philadelphia City Paper

“It’s a problem,” says a man wearing a kitchen apron outside of the “churrascaria” (steak house) on Scott Street. Many of the other immigrant-owned stores and restaurants have closed. “The people are going for Philadelphia,” he continues. “Just a few are left here.”

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