I've written many times on this blog about the changes I see in my neighborhood(s) over time. I noticed a couple more today. Changes are not always positive, but usually I write about the ones that are. Interesting...
Today, I took a different route than I usually take to get back to our Thompson Street facility from Olde Kensington. I'd been avoiding Master Street just west of Broad for quite a while due to construction and unfavorable road conditions. For whatever reason, I decided to go that route today and saw this:
This is Ingersoll Commons Park. I have no idea what it was previously (other than a construction site), but seeing this park completed and grass growing was a bright spot in an otherwise gray and gloomy morning. In the midst of so many ugly cookie cutter condos being built seemingly on every other corner, it's always a pleasure to see some new green space.
After my route, I headed to the office at Broad & Locust. We moved in here on or about May of last year, and I swear since the day we moved in, this old Schwinn has been left to die on the curb out front:
It's the green one on the street side of the rack, missing a front tire and rusting away (a Rustcycle, if you will). People would often lock to it, creating a somewhat messy sight:
And fittingly, a street artist left a rather appropriate commentary on the frame:
I wanted to claim this frame on repeated occasions, either to put it out of its misery, or to see if I could reclaim it. I never got around to it, and somewhat sadly, today it was gone:
And my bike in its place. It's a positive to see it removed no doubt, but for some reason I didn't mind seeing it every day. It kind of became part of the identity of that block in my view. Or maybe I'm just annoyed that I didn't get to it first.
But hey, onward and upward.
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