PhillyBlog Night at mozaic

BYO Appetite!

This is a special evening. A special Bloggers Menu has been prepared. We all look forward to seeing you tonight.

The Butch Ballard Trio will be performing tonight from 7PM - 11PM, featuring the legendary George "Butch" Ballard on drums, Sam Dockery on the Baby, and Dylan Taylor on acoustic bass.

The photography of Jim Sell is on exhibit from August 1st. 'til September 29th.

Shooting Leaves 2 Wounded

From KYW.com

A shooting, at about 2:45 a.m. Friday morning August 3rd, inside an apartment in the 1500 block of Foulkrod left a 32-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the side and a 31-year-old man shot in the thigh. Both were taken to Temple University where their conditions were listed as stable.

The gunman fled the scene and has not been located.

Maybe it was a late night scrabble game that went bad. Frankford intellectuals can be hot tempered.

http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_215075112.html

Batter Up at Deni Playground

The tee ballers find out which end of the bat is up. This first Friday night was a resounding success.

Third Federal Building again

I'll post more information as it trickles in.

Another source shows that on April 19th of this year title was transferred to Frankford Associates LLC. Owners address listed as Wasserman Properties, 550 Pinetown Road suite 440, Fort Washington, PA 19034

Wasserman Properties also lists an address as 3900 G Street Philadelphia, PA 19124.

Finally, the Department of State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania lists the address for Frankford Associates LLC as 1528 Gillingham Street, which is owned by Mantis Development Corp. Jim McCarthy is the president of the corporation.

Third Federal Building

The Northeast Times has a story on the transaction that resulted in the sale of the Third Federal Building to NET (Northeast Treatment Centers). http://www.northeasttimes.com/2007/0802/treatment.html There are varying opinions about the wisdom of having a treatment facility on Main Street Frankford but the real issue in my opinion is that the citizens of Frankford had no say in the matter. That is unfortunate. Now this sale looks like a deal done in a back room in the dark of night. It gives it a bad smell that it may not deserve.

One other curious aspect to this deal is that the sale has still not been properly recorded on the city Bureau of Revision and Taxes web site. What it does show is that the property is still in the hands of the Frankford CDC located at 499 N 05TH ST SUITE A PHILADELPHIA PA 19123 which happens to be the headquarters of NET. No sale date is listed and no sale price. http://brtweb.phila.gov/brt.apps/Search/SearchResults.aspx?id=3496004621#

Our State Representatives

There is an interesting story in the Northeast Times this week on state Representative Mark Cohen. http://www.northeasttimes.com/2007/0802/cohen.html If you follow Phillyblog at all you may have seen posts by Cohen. the surprising thing about finding him posting there is that it is so atypical for a pol to say what he thinks out there in the public forum knowing that it will be impossible for him to deny it later. Agree with him or not but we need more like him who are willing to say what they think and take part in an exchange of ideas.

And in that same line, my wife often emails our elected officials to ask them to support one issue or another. She has emailed State Representative Tony Payton on such and issue and each time he has emailed back with a response. A few weeks ago, at about dinner time, the phone rang. Representative Payton was calling to further discuss an issue she had emailed him about.


Could this be a trend where politicians actually listen to people. Let's hope.

Code Blue

An unusual time for the Inquirer to post this video but it is worth a look for as long as they make it available. Those nameless people who you sometimes meet at the Frankford Transportation Center have a story to tell. This video was taken in January in the midst of a code blue. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/multimedia/8831582.html