“It Really Could Be Something”
15 February 2008 | Philly Skyline
“Sabes, how do you stem the tide? You like it here, you want to come eat in our restaurants, buy up our stores, go for it. You want to come live here? No.”
Posts tagged with “Immigration”
Pierced Dreams
7 February 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper
Delgado, who immigrated seven years ago, is that kind of duena who is capable of doing several things at once. Her confidence infuses the restaurant. She doesn’t have a lot of Cuban customers, she says (there aren’t many in the city), but overall business is growing. “Give me a couple of years. They’ll find me.”
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.”
The Hungry City
19 April 2007
All cities lose people — New York as constantly as Philadelphia. What we have failed to realize is that they crave them too, with an insatiable hunger and unsophisticated palate.
The First Hollywood
16 April 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Now I’m standing at the entrance to Lubinville, where directors would make five motion pictures at one time and eager young men sweating in dinner jackets would jostle for the sidewalk view of the stars.