Emily
Favorite Spot: Bodine Community Garden
Neighborhood: Queen Village
Address: 914 South Bodine Street
I Am: A recent grad school grad & urban nature enthusiast
Years in Philly: almost 5!
Current Home: Grad Hospital
Emily
Favorite Spot: Bodine Community Garden
Neighborhood: Queen Village
Address: 914 South Bodine Street
I Am: A recent grad school grad & urban nature enthusiast
Years in Philly: almost 5!
Current Home: Grad Hospital
Nathan Tuno
Favorite Spot: Headhouse Farmer’s Market
Neighborhood:
I Am: A landscape architect from Pennsport who loves turning his small courtyard garden into a hidden oasis
Years in Philly: Five
Current Home: Pennsport
Emily
Favorite Spot: The corner of 9th and Fitzwater
Neighborhood: Bella Vista
I Am: A Carolina girl turned full-fledged urbanite
Years in Philly: 4.5
Current Home: Grad Hospital
Ashley Hahn
Favorite Spot: Sarcone’s Deli
Neighborhood: Bella Vista
Address: 734 S 9th Street
I am: a planner, preservationist, writer, maker, grower, and beagle enthusiast.
Years in Philly: On and off since 2005. Happily on again since 2011.
Current home: Bella Vista
Sean Lords
Favorite Spot: Chapterhouse Cafe and Gallery
Address: 620 S 9th St, Philadelphia, PA 19147
Neighborhood: Bella Vista
I am: A perpetual teacher, student, and traveler, now helping others looking for tefl certification in Philadelphia.
Laura Luttrell
Favorite Place: South Street (more speficially the Starbucks on the corner of 4th)
Address: 347 South Street
Neighborhood: Society Hill
I am: A lover of all things cozy and caffienated. And also a severe addict of witty British TV shows
Years in Philly: Visiting since I was a child
Current Home: Boyfriend lives in Northeast Philly ( I basically live there), but technically West Chester
Editor’s note: The interns of Campus Philly share their most loved Philly spots and experiences as students in the City of Brotherly Love.
Cindy Stansbury, Temple University
Favorite Spot: Philly AIDS Thrift
Neighborhood: Queen Village
Address: 710 S.5th St, Philadelphia, PA 19147
I am: A full time student at Temple University and a city explorer extraordinaire.
Years In Philly: One and a half years
Current Home: North Philadelphia and South Jersey
Amy Shelanski
Favorite Spot: Old Swede’s Church grounds
Neighborhood: Queen Village
Address: Water and Christian Streets
My love note:
Tracy Levesque
Favorite Spot: The Stoop
Neighborhood: QSOX – Queen Village South of Christian (I’m trying to coin a new Neighborhood Acronym 🙂
Address: 900 Block of South Bodine Street
My love note: There are so many things I love about this City — Center City Pretzels, Belmont Plateau, The Whispering Benches near Memorial Hall — it was hard for me to pick one. I came to realize the thing that brings me the most day-to-day happiness is Philly’s stoop culture. I live on a little street connected to other little streets and hanging out on the stoop with neighbors is an almost daily occurrence in the warm weather months.
I’ve lived on my block for 13 years and I have sat on my next-door neighbor’s stoop and watched little kids grow into teenagers. I’ve watched the process of kids learning to yell “CAR!” when a car is coming and then teaching it to the little kids when they have grown up into big kids.
Nearly all of my neighbors know each other and we have spent countless hours talking, laughing, eating and drinking on the stoop. We’ve played Rock Band and watched movies and Phillies games projected onto a wall at night. We’ve wheeled out BBQs and pulled chairs into the street for spontaneous block parties. Last Halloween we cooked and handed out S’mores to trick-or-treaters. And for our 6 year old’s birthday we closed down the block and turned it into a homemade sprayground.
Recently me, the wife and the kid went on our first family vacation in years. The day after driving back from our roadtrip I hung out with neighbors on the Stoop and it felt like the best day of vacation. It made me realize how incredibly lucky we are to live on this great block in a great neighborhood in this town I absolutely love.