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⚠️ Fixing one of South Philly’s worst intersections 🎉 AIDS Thrift celebrates 20 years with block party 🍸 Salad martini goes viral
Community input wanted for a bad intersection in Queen Village, and a martini with salad dressing in it has take over parts of the Internet.
Happy Thursday, South Philly.
In this week’s Scoop …
The Broad Street speed cameras go live in a few days. Get prepared.
A fancy food hall ghost kitchen opens for business in South Philly.
A beloved old Kensington bar makes a one-night-only reappearance in Pennsport.
Celebrate 20 years of Philly AIDS Thrift this weekend with a block party in front of the shop.
Now, on to this week’s top story …
⚠️ Fixing one of South Philly’s worst intersections
Thanks to our weird diagonal avenues and our ancient, cobbled-together street grid, South Philadelphia has plenty of weird and confusing intersections.
The city has done a good job of fixing what I previously thought was the worst — right by the Penrose Diner, where Moyamensing, Penrose, Packer, and 20th Streets all come together. It’s now a nice new circle, with bike lanes and a much slower and safer traffic pattern.
And so that leaves another major headache — one that seems to baffle every car that arrives in its crosshairs.