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Thursday, December 11, 2025
Foreign-born new neighbors send up hostile flares. Are they Somalies?
Private driveway or condo drive-thru? The condo unit at 2600 Albert Street in Old Richmond (Philadelphia) has been up and running for several years. It was built during the pandemic and for many months construction was dormant. The place filled up when the project wsa finally finished, but 2-3 years after that some residents began moving out. The wandering, vagabond American! Always looking for someplace "nicer." One unit currently stands empty. Unit #6 on Harold Street has become the home of new neighbors. Who knows where they are from. They appear to be Indian or Somalies, but who knows. One wishes they were nice people. I have Indian friends, especially in the medical field. But something went terribly amiss one day this week when I found myself taking my usual short-cut along this drive-thru from Harold Street to Mercer Street. The short cut has been essential because of the ongoing, annoying road construction on Almond Street, which has made walking there difficult. The resident of the Harold Street condo told me I was tresspassing and that the drive-thru was his private driveway. Private driveway? The condo is a shared enviornment and the drive-thru would then have to be available to all the residents there. Yet this individual insisted that he owned it alone and had the authoity to ban nearby neighbors from taking this popular short-cut from Mercer to Harold, and vice versa. When I argued with this gentleman, he told me, "Okay, I tried to be nice, but now I'm gonna say the next time I see you walk through here, I'm gonna f-ck you up!" How neighborly! I lost it, amazed at the inhospitability and unfriendliness. He then said he was going to build a fence to prevent people from walking back and forth. I told him I was going to file a police report, which I did do. What happens next is anybody's guess.