I’m sorry, the city of Philadelphia can’t drop teargas from helicopters on peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters and at the same time protect groups of bat-wielding white men who are assaulting people and not expect us to demand a complete reform of policing in this city.
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Philly-based photo-blog exploring Art + Public Space, EST. 2011; Podcast interviewing creative minds, EST. 2017; and art curation #StreetsDeptWalls! 
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Philly has been calling “Christopher Columbus Boulevard” Delaware Ave for three decades. No one from Philly is ever gonna call this app “x”.
White people in Philly: If a mural depicting Black people goes up in your neighborhood and your first reaction is to feel that it doesn’t belong there, you are part of the problem. Investigate those feelings, because you are absolutely taking that bias into your daily life.
“She has not been charged with a crime, and police won’t say what prompted the show of force.”
Jesus Christ:
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Philly police pulled a woman from SUV during unrest, beat her, separated her from her child, and handcuffed her at the hospital, attorney says trib.al/mvL9Fkb
I really don’t think The City is prepared for how much people rely on that Barnes & Noble Rittenhouse Square public restroom. Is there any plan, or are people just gonna have to rely on the generosity of all the restaurants in Rittenhouse?
Notice how came to Philly and promoted our public art. This is what we’re known for. This is what separates us from every other city in the country/world. The artists in this city deserve so much more support and funding.
Philly: This could be Sansom Street!
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Crazy to think just a few years ago this was all cars. There’s no going back now. (Jersey City)
Anyone else in Philly feel like the “Avenue of the Arts” should have more...art?
More public art, more sculptures and monuments, more murals. It’s really just a glorified highway right now.
Someone call me, I know a lot of great artists!
“Chaos has no gender” #PhillyTransMarch
I love Philadelphia more than you could ever imagine ❤️🏳️⚧️😭
The scene in South Philly right now, it’s exactly what you expect:
I’m in the today, y’all!
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This is surreal. I’m so incredibly honored to have this recognition, but most importantly to do the work I do in this incredible city with the amazing people I have around me.
Enormous thanks to @joshuaneed!
I have lived in Philadelphia for 567 years and to this day I have absolutely no idea what lane to be in or what move to make when I am driving up Spring Garden and reach the parkway/ the oval/ the PMA.
It will never sit well with me that Center City residents get street cleaning while the rest of the neighborhoods have to fight with litter.
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I was 16 when I got my job at Old Navy at the Gallery. I worked there for 3 years until I was (lol) fired at 19 for being late...
Today, the space reopened as Fashion District, and I curated 10 murals for it. Can't tell you what a surreal moment this is.
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Errrr, real Philly never stopped calling it Delaware Ave 🤝
Kid Hazo Installs “GrITty” in South Philly streetsdept.com/2018/10/31/kid
Now offer free rides on Election Day!
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SEPTA offering free Broad Street Line rides home this Sunday after Eagles-Lions game trib.al/xexxNC6
And just like that, Philly has a new public art landmark! Here's everything we know about artist Miguel Antonio Horn's "Contrafuerte," installed this week on Cuthbert Street in Center City: streetsdept.com/2021/08/30/stu
OMG: Philly kids have started painting, drawling, and chalking rainbows on and around their homes as a sign of togetherness during our city’s Coronavirus quarantine! ❤️🌈
August in Philadelphia, when everyone chooses the side with the shade.
Imagine walking the streets around NYC’s Madison Square Garden at literally any time of day or night and thinking, ‘Damn, this is JUST what Philly is missing.’
76 Place is a corny idea being promoted by people who have a lot of money and who stand to earn even more if built.
Imagine Dîner en Blanc but instead of paying $100+ for tickets to sit in a public space, you just make extra food and bring a few extra seats/tables to dine and share with people in Philly experiencing homelessness and families with food insecurity. No dress code required.
Philly practicing social distancing > your city practicing social distancing
1) How is the best solution to give younger Philadelphians even less options for things to do?
2) How is this even enforceable? Bouncers at every entrance checking IDs? A line to get in?
3) Imagine being a 22-year-old not being able to take younger family members shopping. 🤯
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Starting Monday, officials say minors will not be able to go into the shopping outlets without an adult over the age of 23 after 2 p.m. 6abc.com/the-fashion-di
This b.s. with @MinorFigures is a great example of why I think we should seriously consider banning outdoor advertising:
What an exciting time to be living in Philly, trust the process y’all... is installing a handful of new murals around town, keep your eyes open: instagram.com/p/BhR2lelhHqh/
#TrustTheProcess 🙌🏼🍾🎉
There should be no air conditioning at City Hall until every Philly school has it.
Philly is still the best team. The best city. We deserve everything! Fuck that call the refs made at the end! Absolute absurdity.
This is one of the most interesting public art performances I’ve ever seen.
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See y’all, the City didn’t hold the 26th Precinct and Capt. Fisher accountable for permitting this shit in Fishtown last Monday, now it’s happening again.
We need accountability of the PPD NOW.
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Several guns, bats and sticks carried by white vigilantes here at Columbus square in South Philly to “protect” the Columbus statue. Police have been visibly quite friendly with this group
Wow, I have literally had more people in front of me waiting for a hoagie at Wawa.
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Supporters waiting at a Trump rally in NE Philadelphia to see @RudyGiuliani. The event was originally supposed to have been held at 2300 Arena, a larger space in South Philadelphia. Reportedly the owners of the original space canceled at the last minute @6abc
You can’t make this up, they’re painting the Columbus box at Marconi Plaza the colors of the Italian flag…
And they bought the wrong color green.
Imagine running the 5th largest city in the U.S. and being afraid to make one street safer. Like, this is basic stuff. We shouldn't have to fight so hard for common sense.
Our next mayor and their administration better be bold, visionary, and actually do shit for the people.
Tonight I had the privilege of giving a tour of Philly public art, starting with our #StreetsDeptWalls: To The Polls 2022 murals in LOVE Park! (I’ll post a big video of the full tour soon!)
Anyone who has to work in Philly on Monday should be paid triple time. 🦅
I feel like we should probably be talking more about the fact that it seems like we really won’t have a winter this year.
Walking from Fishtown to South Philly on a rainy little day ❤️
Philadelphians are going down to the Eagles mural down by the stadiums to get good selfies for tomorrow! I love this city! 🦅❤️
Really helpful insight this morning from , who went viral across social media for helping people better understand industrial disasters after East Palestine.
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An incredible new monument to a failing for-profit healthcare system just popped up at Broad and Vine streets in Philadelphia...
Absolutely LOVE this action from Hahnemann staff: streetsdept.com/2019/07/26/hun
The Schuylkill from the top of the Philly’s skyline. Zoom in, there’s so much to see!
Like, where is that nuclear power plant? How did I not know there was one so close to Philly?!
The chemical company that did this to Philadelphia should give us all checks for the panic that their negligence created in this city.
Be cool if the city cleaned the asbesto and lead out of Philly schools as quick as they drained and cleaned 676 after Ida!
Philadelphia is the best city in the world and we know it.
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Just checking the scene outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center. #counteveryvote
14 out of 17 Philadelphia City Councilmember say NO to ’s $14 million dollar budget increase for Philly police.
The protests are working.
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The letter states that the City of Philadelphia "must make meaningful policy changes to ensure transparency and accountability." on.nbc10.com/HOVQefc
Welcome to Philadelphia: We like spring 1,000x more than your city and will literally sit wherever outside as soon as it’s warm.
I’m sorry, but we have a hotter pitcher and I really feel like that should count for something. #Phillies
The scars that the current leadership are leaving on that museum make it hard for me to imagine that any living artist or artist foundation would ever want to work with them. They have been so nasty in these negotiations with their workers. Artists won’t forget this.
At this point I think Philadelphia sanitation workers are just on strike, and I am in full support of whatever they are demanding.
Philly's Rizzo statue was more heavily protected over the summer than our nation's Capital Building was yesterday.
So is now charging Philly artists $200 to be interviewed by them?!
What the heck is this!?!
As a lifelong Philadelphian who’s part Italian American, I would love to look any of those bat-wielding men today at Marconi Plaza in the eye and ask them to tell me three things they know about Christopher Columbus.
Disney, meet the Philadelphia Navy Yard 🤝
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Disney is pulling the plug on a nearly $1 billion development planned for Orlando, Florida, the company said on Thursday, as it feuds with Gov. Ron DeSantis. nyti.ms/3MjKQCO
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If this thing isn’t the color of the rainbow flag for Pride Month, I’m canceling my Internet! 🏳️🌈
Trans and non-binary people are here. They have always been here. And they will always be here! #PhillyTransMarch ❤️🏳️⚧️
I love Philly from the bottom of my heart, but there is nothing I like about walking around this city at rush-hour when as a pedestrian at every intersection you’re met with a car absolutely angry that you exist ready to run you over.
It’s about that time of year where you start to remember that there are not enough trees in our damn neighborhoods!
I vote we we replace the Christopher Columbus statue at Marconi Plaza with a statue to Betty White. She has just as much connection to South Philly as Columbus. Plus, she’s a national treasure and not a monster.
Did you know that Philadelphia is home to a historically unique mural by the legendary Keith Haring?
So let me get this right: the PMA–whose workers famously went on strike a few months ago garnering international attention–is now a literal doormat for a studio whose workers are currently on strike against them?
Who approved this?! Yikes
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“Ghost Ship” has arrived, Philadelphia!
Extra, Extra! Read all about it: streetsdept.com/2019/10/04/a-g
WAIT, one of the Comcast buildings is now 🦅 green?! Has anyone ever seen Comcast 1 change colors?
