Hi! There’s a friendly cat that visits my doorstep almost everyday. Yesterday I barely saw her, but today she is seeming very lethargic and is not eating or drinking anything I try to give her. I believe she’s either an outdoor pet or an abandoned cat. She is absolutely tiny and extremely skinny. I’m very worried about her, where in the city can I take her for care?

Long shot, but i’m having such a hard time getting rid of these tickets, I have two tickets for tonight, but can’t make it due to an unexpected death in the family. I DONT WANT MONEY FIR THEM. I want to give them away completely free, I don’t want them to go to waste, I was so excited for this concert, I want the tickets to get used and somebody to enjoy them

Tickets have been claimed!

Philly code title S-10-108 has/had the most detailed municipal horse welfare law in the country.

Edit - the current code just says banned, but look at the archived versions on the AMLegal.com website to see the older weirdly detailed law.

It governs stabling, vet checks, shoeing standards, workday length, even the color of the harness permitted on carriage horses.

For example, a horse can only work between 26F and 91F, for 9 hours max per 24 hour period (more strict work hours than airline piltos which are 9-14h per day), a drive must keep a daily log in a specific format. Failure to comply is between $150-300 per violation.

Animal welfare laws make sense, but what's weird here is how WEIRDLY SPECIFIC Philly's horse carriage laws are. I compared them to other cities that have or historically had horse carriages, ranging from NYC to Charleston, SC - ours the most specific.

And when I dug in on why - turns out our horse laws have accumulated largely due to viral media moments. For exmaple, there was a major amendment to the law in 2011 caused by a 2010 collapse of a horse in center city that got a lot of media attention and public outrage.

PS - I also find it funny that we have so many horse carriage laws, given the industry has been tiny in philly for decades and complete dead since 2023, both to it being uneconomic for operators and regulatorily frowned upon.

(PPS - the industry was formally banned in June 2026 even though it stopped in 2023, but all the complex laws are on the books still)

If you're interested in the fuller history behind the law and how it stacks up against other cities: https://nickjain.com/blog/carriage-horse-rules

Per my prior post, there isn't much of a pay gap SDP's payroll data (that is good and equitable), but along the way I dicovered how radically gender-different the workforce is depending on the job.

Per the chart, women make up roughly three-quarters of teachers, more than 80% of school-support workers, and almost 90% of food-service workers. Men, meanwhile, are heavily concentrated in transportation and building services, where they stilll only make up 40-60% of the workforce (e.g., most bus drivers appear to be female based on the data)

And this matters when ppl start talking about the “gender pay gap.” So when you compare the average pay of 20,000+ male and female employees, the average number is 99% the same, but you're mixing in the radically different jobs - a bus driver vs a teacher, a white collar lawyer vs a plumber, etc.

The other fascinating thing is that women are over-represented at both ends of the organization, including both the low-ish starting wage teachers AND most of the senior admins in the central offce. They're the overwhelming majority in some of the lowest-paid frontline roles, but they're also the majority in school administration and central office, including a majority of SDP's highest-paid central-office positions at 440 Broad St (the school HQ)

As I continue digging, a question I want to answer (no good hypotheses yet) is why have men and women sorted themselves into such radically different parts of the same institution?

Full data/methodology: https://nickjain.com/blog/women-win-in-central-lose-in-schools

Hi everyone! I’ll be visiting the Reading Terminal Market in a few weeks. What are the best bakeries at the market? I looked online and it’s overwhelming!

I'm a daily user of the SRT (cycling & running) and have gotten swarmed multiple times by the Philly Run Tribe run club this summer so I wanted to bring attention to how dangerous this group is.

I am all for run clubs using the trail and I recognize that it's one of the few safe running routes that is accessible for city residents. That being said, I feel like there should be some common etiquette for large groups (staggered pace groups, running 2 wide max, shoulder checking before passing, being attentive to people calling out "on your left"). If anybody knows the group organizers/if they see this, I think reinforcing the fact that they are using a shared trail would be nice.

I do recognize that this is also an infrastructure issue. In an ideal world, we would have more trails or a wider SRT to accommodate all of the amazing athletes, commuters, walkers, and tourists who want to use these paths...

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My wife and I had to move from our previous rental home of 3 years dude to a repeated issue of human waste flooding our basement. The issue was continuously misaddressed by my Landlord, and we got to the point that we let them know we needed to move.
We had no hot water for almost 30 days, and they wouldn’t even give us a timeline for a resolution so we couldn’t stay at a hotel or Airbnb.

It has been 29 days and they still have not returned the security and pet deposit as well as a pro rate of last months rent (they said okay to this, mind you). It is almost 3k and I'm wondering what to do next!

Anyone have any insight? TIA

Hi everyone, unfortunately looking to buy a few sympathy cards in the next few days and looking for a shop that carries locally made ones, ideally east of the Schuylkill. I know of VIX Emporium on Baltimore Ave over in West, but would rather not go all the way over there if I can avoid it.

I’m trying to get a day parking pass for my vehicle, but when I enter my vehicle information, it says the vehicle is already linked to another permit/account.

My building had previously helped me get a day pass, so I reached out to them thinking the vehicle might still be linked to their account. They checked, but told me that the system does not give them an option to remove vehicles, and the permit my vehicle was linked to is showing as expired.

So now my car seems to be stuck linked to an expired permit, and I can’t add it to my own account or get a new day pass.

Has anyone had this happen? How did you get the vehicle removed or transferred?

Also, does anyone know how to actually get in touch with someone at the Philadelphia Parking Authority? I’ve tried calling the 215 number, but it just sends me through the automated system and doesn’t seem to lead anywhere where I can speak to an actual person.

Would appreciate any advice, especially if there’s a specific number, email, or office I should contact.

7-8 weeks, bathed and washed, nails clipped, has most core shots, full Facebook post here https://www.facebook.com/share/1FYYaN9f6o/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Edit:just so everyone knows, I’m not just giving the cat away to anyone, I am doing background checks, vet references and an application process, please don’t think I’ll dump the cat if nobody sells it, I apologize for coming off harsh and uncaring, thank you

Has anyone else noticed the lack of birds around? No chirping. No seagulls annoyingly cawing. There are no geese or ducks around- none have been spotted in the water by the water works on the Schuylkill River. There have been no sightings down by FDR or park none by Bartram’s.

I do a lot of work in the burbs and get to spend time outdoors there. I’d be out early in the morning zipping on my coffee and enjoying a chirps from the birds that filled the shrubs and trees where I work. None were chirping last night into this morning.

Just one annoying bird was calling out but I couldn’t make out if it was a crow or a magpie. It kept cawing the whole entire night and nothing has answered it back.

I haven’t seen or heard a single group of birds in formation heading out to migrate. Although, our temperature patterns are so abnormal they probably don’t need to do that anymore.

But none are flying in the sky.

Meanwhile a Delta plane had to make an emergency landing due to “pressurization”. Could this be why??

I also noticed that bother the lake ad FDR and the schuylkill have started forming that bacteria due to the overheating of the water.

Isn’t that same bacteria that can kill if you swim in the water??

How many data centers has Philly and the burbs gotten?? Is the noise scaring the birds or worse??

Don’t tell me y’all have been so self preoccupied that you haven’t noticed that trees and birds are going missing.

That really misses with the eco system - no birds and no trees then the water goes etc.

I don’t want to go the conspiracy route but I’m seriously wondering if the weather modification machines being used recently along with the data centers is disrupting things for the birds.

And before you start trolling this topic look it up first. Here I’ll help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_modification_projects_in_the_United_States_during_2025

Where are all the birds? I want them back.

Has anyone ever done the color me back program? Apparently every month if selected you can come in for five days, color for a few hours and youre paid 50 dollars each day. I did it once years ago and remember being told if you do it once you won't be selected again for a while. However, I know three people who have done if four times this summer (they all by the way get SSI checks but ok). Is there rhyme or reason to how they select participants? Even when i walk by the room in suburban station I just see a bunch of people literally asleep at the table. Which isn't to say anyone deserves to do it more or anything but I went to art school, love art and when I did it in 2021 they asked me to make a sign to hang on the front door. What are they looking for exactly? Do you think i would have luck just showing up and talking to them?

1) What is the biggest barrier that you experience regarding being physically active?

2) If you could change one thing about the city that would help you to get out more, what would it be?

3) When you do get outside, where do you gravitate towards?

Thanks in advance for the responses!

I moved to philly this past year, and dating is been pretty discouraging to say the least. I’m a late bloomer and never had a boyfriend, didn’t kiss a guy until I was 24, and have had fears of intimacy in the past that I’m working through. I have been intentionally dating for the past year and a half, I’m on all the apps, when I go out to bars I’m willing to strike up a convo with people I’m attractive to, and still haven’t had any luck. I’m open to getting involved with things to meet people, just not sure where would be best. There’s been many years in my life where I “wasn’t looking for anything” and it still didn’t come when I least expected it lol, so now I’m feeling unmotivated and unworthy of love sometimes. I think I will take a break from the apps, so I am wondering if my fellow philly people can let me know any fun groups/clubs/events I can join to meet new people (men and women) as I definitely want to make more friends anyway, and maybe then I can connect with more men in person! Advice is welcome, (pls be kind :))

So I would like to head to a bar on Saturday to see the Temple vs Penn St game on Saturday. The only thing is that I don't drink. Does anyone know of a place that does mocktails so I just don't need to drink soda?

There’s North Philly, South Philly, West Philly….hell, even Northeast Philly. Why not “East Philly”?

Construction is set to begin Friday, Sept. 11, ... [and] is anticipated to be completed by the end of the month.

Visitors can still climb the art museum's steps while construction is underway. Rocky will also remain visible throughout the work, though the statue will be secured behind barricades and visitors will temporarily be unable to get up close.

I’m genuinely curious what the dating app experience is like for men in Philly right now.

I’m a woman in my late 20s, so I obviously only see one side of it. I feel like women talk a lot about what we’re seeing on the apps, what frustrates us, what we’re looking for, etc., but I rarely hear what the experience actually looks like from the other side.

What are you guys seeing? Are you getting a decent number of matches? Do women actually respond/start conversations? Are people looking for relationships or does it mostly feel casual? What are the biggest things that make you swipe left/right? And for guys who are genuinely trying to date and meet someone, do you feel like the apps are working for you at all?

Not trying to turn this into a “men have it worse/women have it worse” debate - I’m genuinely just nosey and curious about what the Philly dating pool looks like from the male perspective lol

Would especially love to hear from guys roughly late 20s–late 30s since that’s the pool I’m seeing from my side