Sept 4: Rainbow's manager melts down because neighbors asked her to clean up trash around her illegal dumpster
Success! Rite Aid has stopped leaving open trash and crates outside our front doors while Snipes and Rainbow have eliminated illegal dumpsters altogether.
LATEST UPDATES
November 20: Clean up day! Thanks to E Passyunk Crossing Civic Association and E Passyunk Business Improvement District for facilitating!September 21: CM Squilla reports L&I and Streets met to develop their "enforcement plan" on September 16.September 3: Thank you to PA State Senator Nikil Saval for visiting our block. With his office's support, we hope to start the process of citing businesses for illegal dumpsters and blocking the public right of way, which was supposed to happen after CM Squilla's and Trash Commissioner's Warren's visit on July 20.August 18: New LED streetlights were installed. the timing couldn't be better. The growing homeless encampment at Broad & Snyder is using 2000 S Watts as an annex. This is thanks to businesses illegally providing an infrastructure for them such as dumpsters and gates for cover to use the bathroom and do drugs. Rite Aid leaves cardboard and bins out 24/7, which the homeless pick through for their needs.August 14: The city hasn't delivered its "enforcement plan" as trash, human waste, needles, and dumpsters still line our street. Uber drivers refuse to drive down the block because illegal gates, built to the curb, are left often by the homeless who use them as bathrooms.
August 2: Verizon tied up loose wires that were hanging from utility poles, greatly improving the appearance of our neighborhood.
July 20: Thank you to Councilmember Squilla, The Streets Departments, L&I, and the East Passyunk Business Improvement District for touring 2000 S Watts with neighbors. The work of the above group, facilitated by the East Passyunk Crossing Civic Association, has already led to Snipes permanently removing their dumpsters!
Keith Warren said we could have new LED street lights in two weeks to help with safety!
L&I promised an "enforcement plan" to eliminate illegal dumpsters and enclosures blocking the public right of way.
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You have to see it to believe that this is E. Passyunk
Trash Takes Precedent Over Wheelchairs
Even if it's enclosed, dumpsters cannot block a public right of way
Behind Popeye's
This dumpster blocks a right of way, is visible to residents, and constantly overflows. The Philly 311 app says this is “currently being investigated.”
Behind the abandoned McDonald's, now owned by USA Vein Clinics
Illegal dumping, drug use, and human urination and defecation are common occurrences behind this neglected building
Trash and human waste behind the USA Vein Clinics-owned building
Residents had to remove this trash behind the vacant McDonalds
Constant trash and trouble behind this neglected building
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(WARNING: graphic content)
You have to see it to believe that this is E. Passyunk
Rite Aid Trash Invites Trash
Illegal enclosures and 24/7 trash on our sidewalk is an inviting setting for drug use
Snipes and Rainbow Dumpsters
Snipes actually removed those dumpsters, ironically, because they were illegal. The Rainbow Dumpster persists
The Back of Popeyes, H&R Block, and Boost Mobile
This trash doesn't look like it's in an opaque enclosure
I wonder if these needles behind H&R Block are tax deductible?
This trash also doesn't look like it's in an opaque enclosure
Rainbow's Dumpster Welcomes You to 2000 S Watts
What better way to welcome addicts and vagrants onto our block
Rite Aid's Filth Next to Children's Chalk
Sad that the kids on our block have to play amongst this garbage
Makeshift Port-a-Potty
courtesy of Snipes and Rainbow
We're Better Than This, Philly!
This is no way any Philadelphian should "enjoy" their block; a family plays with Snipes and Rite Aid's dumpster as a backdrop
You Won't Believe What is About to Happen Next...
Notice, children are currently present
Sex, Trash, and Videotape
Rite Aid's dumpster and illegal enclosure (over 6 feet high, blocking a sidewalk) makes a great broad daylight love shack
And Then They Shoot Heroin
Rite Aid must have expanded its pharmaceutical selection
All Philly P.D. Can Do is Tell Them to Move Along
I talked to the police officers, who actually said the dumpsters are what attract this element from Broad and Snyder down our block! These two returned 15 minutes later
Dumpsters Take Precedent Over Wheelchairs
According to the law, in a residential area, dumpsters aren't allowed to block sidewalks
Waiting Next to Overflowing Dumpster for a Car to Pass
The sidewalks do not belong to the residents of 2000 S Watts
There was Relief... for a Moment
Snipes removed two dumpsters!
And it made an amazing difference on the McKean end of the block!No trash, human waste, drugs, or sex (a phrase I never thought I would have to write)
