Center City: Not Downtown

30Jul08

I don’t care for the name Center City. “Downtown” seems like such a nice, universal term. Why change?
New Yorkers do claim that theirs is the only true downtown, as it is at the southern end of the island. Playing second – or third, or fourth – fiddle on the East Coast would make me want [...]

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The Roots

30Jul08

Can’t see trains (in this case, a trolley) in Philly – and be in the city in general – without thinking of The Roots. This song in particular. 
 

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