hi all,

I am looking to buy 60+ birch plywood B or S grade 4x8s. I dont want to go to a bigbox store because their quality control is poor.

does anyone have a lumber store/yard they've had a good experience with in or around philly? a place you can put in an order and not feel like you need to micro manage?

thanks

I won on a $20 scratcher and you gotta fill out a form and take it to a retailer who can cash it or print out a money order.

Anyone know a place that sells money orders and lotto in center city? I doubt any little lotto place is gonna have $1000 in cash on hand.

Divine Lorraine Hotel, formerly operated by “Mint House”, has closed permanently. It has been marked permanently closed on Google Maps, and it has been wiped from the Mint House website.

I guess I missed my opportunity to stay at this former Philly classic!

As in title, anyone know when this was taken offline and why?

Hi,

I received a job offer for an opportunity that is a significant promotion and raise at a good company. I can't and don't want to move out of Philly. If I move near 30th station and the NYC office is close to Penn Station, how feasible is this commute three days per week? Does anyone else do this two to three days per week?

Did anybody get any information about the Verizon Fan fest?

Hey all, Weighing my logistics options for the game. What do we think the BSL will be like after the Super Bowl? I’m an expat from the Philly burbs, trying to sort out if it makes sense to make the trek back to the area for the game.

Has anyone noticed a huge increase in pigeons around the Center City area? When I moved here 9 years ago, I hardly ever saw any pigeons. Maybe one or two around City Hall. Now I see huge flocks of pigeons near my building.

I’m not sure if it’s happening around all of this area or just around my building because of my ahole neighbor who has a bird feeder on their balcony in an apartment building. Sometimes I’ll open my window and I’ll see several dozen pigeons fly away, not to mention all of the bird poop and feathers on my balcony.

any advice on getting to airport with a toddler? trying not to bring car seat. I know don't cities like nyc have family Uber but we don't

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I'm looking for some advice and suggestions for a problem I have with parking. I'll give a back story to understand my situation. I live and take care of my elderly grandmother that has dementia. She likes to look out the window from time to time. If she doesn't see my car parked outside she will constantly ask where is my car because she can't remember that I already told her i parked it somewhere else. This would go on and on until I got to park back in front of the house. It would cause her distress because she would think my car was stolen or that I wasn't home and she was alone even after we got an aid in the home. So I started using a cone to save a spot in front of my house. Yes I know it's illegal and this subreddit hates them but it honestly just made things easier. My grandma stayed calm and I or the aid didnt have to keep repeating to her about the car. My neighbors understood my situation especially the older ones that have been neighbors with my family for decades.

Not too long ago a major cross street got permit parking and people that lived on that street that didn't want to pay for permit parking started parking on my smaller street. It made it harder for us to park even though there is plenty of free spots on the much larger street to park. My street tried to get permit parking to in hopes it would make the other people park somewhere else but it was denied twice by ppa. I even tried applying for a parking permit on the permit street for my car, not that it would help my situation, but was denied for some reason.

There is now someone from the permit street that has started to move the cone and park so I have to park somewhere else. I'm now back to some days having to keep explaining to my grandma that no my car wasn't stolen and yes I was home.

I get the whole cone thing and the frustration so I'm just trying to find another solution so I can keep my grandmother comfortable and I'm not going insane with that never ending string of questions. I don't know if I can apply for disabled parking and get the signs put up. She can't driving so I would be the one taking her when needed and the car is not registered to her. Does anyone else have any other suggestions that I can try? I don't know the guy that moves the cone and even if I did I have too much anxiety to actually go up to him.

remember when divine loraine was still a ruin?

Coming to philly. Is there a dispensary that i can walk to from N.J. transit via the Ben Franklin?