Comments on: After College Living: Manayunk (Philadelphia, PA)

By: D Decca

D Decca — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:24:13 +0000

Within the next five years those of us who bought homes her because of the historic charm and cultural possiblities will be gone. One of the the all time (and I mean monumental on the scale of the Titanic)crimes is how developers and cynical home owners allowed Manayunk to turn into Spring Break Northwest for sub 1000 SAT under acheivers. As I speak, there are 31 places to drink on Main Street. We are blessed with 25 empty stores, 5 nail saloins, 14 hair salons and 2 tanning salons, one vibrator store and yes a Sleepy's. We have no book store no playhouse, no grocery store or hardware store and very little in the way of outlets for original music. So feel good about the supposed new direction of the Main St. economy. We've succeeded in creating a strip mall encased in 19th century arcitecture. We have a Ritas, a Pottery Barn and a Banana Rep.and 9 pizza outlets. All we need is a Cinnabon and we can challenege the Gallery at Market East for whose tackiest.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:38:26 +0000

For the record, Jonathan Harrar is a direct descendant of Dick Cheney and has benefited immensely from the bottomless pockets of oil tycoons worldwide. It's a shame he allocates his loot towards harp lessons and backgammon tournaments instead of rowsin' fun in Manayunk :(

By: Jonathan Harra

Jonathan Harra — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:44:46 +0000

Yeah manayunk is all bright lights and shiny objects. Maybe its fun on the weekend for the trust fund villanova grad… but for those of us that work 5 days a week on post grade salaries manayunk "stinks" for lack of a better word….. there is nowhere to eat except high price establishments.. and the crows albeit attractive…are not very sociable…. can you say clicky..and feisty…