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Originally Posted by FtGreeneNY
Final Federal approval to complete the VSE didn't happen until 1983, so when I was in middle school at Broad and Vine, Vine was just a giant street (10 lanes I think), and it was definitely a huge barrier b/w Center City and north, and the blocks on the south side of Vine were parking lots...kinda like now. I don't know if that was in part are property was cleared in anticipation of the VSE or not. But the north side of Vine was more filled in - for some reason I've still not figured out because that area was kinda sketchy/Skid Row-ish (70s parenting), I went to Sunday school at the Sunday Breakfast on 12th north of Vine when I was 7 or 8; I think that that building is now condos.
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So, Chinatown never really eroded at all and it's pretty much unchanged? Even the severing of Holy Redeemer, etc. doesn't sound so bad, because what's there now has to be better than a 10 lane street, right? Is it almost like the land that time forgot, with all of the various physical barriers protecting it from outsiders.