this is very common in my city, Catania (Sicily)!
Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
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Re: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
#372Really heart warming story. My 2 cents: The group is at a critical point now, having ~100 Whatsapp members. From what I've seen this creates a chilling effect where you inevitably end up with cliques and social cooling. No new members will feel like they can actually send a message into a 100+ person group, while the old guard starts to use it as a notification board, rather than a real chat. Eventually, newer member…
> The group is at a critical point now, having ~100 Whatsapp members. From what I've seen this creates a chilling effect where you inevitably end up with cliques and social cooling. The way to minimize this fear is by encouraging members to send welcoming messages to those new to the community. Celebrate the growth instead of fearing the unknown. > No new members will feel like they can actually send a message into a…
> Much like what I am doing here to what I assume is a group exceeding 100+ members.
Under an anonymous account to people you don’t have to see in person.
Re: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
#373Burning Man morning vibes, walking to a neighborhood camp for good coffee and meeting some new friends. Love it.
Re: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
#374Sitting on the street of SF, for the whole day just like that?
How many times have these people been mugged?
Re: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
#375Earlier quoted context omitted.
> they would comment on who slept over > landlady said she nearly let herself into my home to make sure I hadn't died because no one had seen me in a few days. You sound way less bothered by that than I would be. I'm annoyed just reading it.
I think it's a genuine concern as a landlord. Do you want to have a rotting corpse in your house/neighborhood just sitting there?
Well, you should be able to leave for a week without having to tell your neighbors all about it. It may be different for old weak people who are unlikely to just go to vacation all of a sudden.
Re: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
#376The "New World" is re-discovering what the Balkans / Southern Europe have been doing for decades.
Re: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
#377Earlier quoted context omitted.
> they would comment on who slept over > landlady said she nearly let herself into my home to make sure I hadn't died because no one had seen me in a few days. You sound way less bothered by that than I would be. I'm annoyed just reading it.
I think it's a genuine concern as a landlord. Do you want to have a rotting corpse in your house/neighborhood just sitting there?
While that might be the case, a 'landlord' can't just enter a house or apartment.
Re: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
#378Ha, never knew the Dutch word 'stoep' had an English equivalent in 'stoop'!
Re: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the entire thesis of Jane Jacobs’ work: urban living works because of friction-by-design. Inadvertent interactions between people you see every day build a sense of community over time — the “sidewalk ballet”. I always wondered what she would have thought about her ideas in the context of COVID.
I think we're a long way off from the communities when Jane Jacobs lived. An except that I frequently think about, I can't even fathom in a large city in the current era, and not because technology has solved the key problem. >Joe Cornacchia, who keeps the delicatessen, usually has a dozen or so keys at a time for handing out like this. He has a special drawer for them. >Now why do I, and many others, select Joe as a…
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#380Yeah that’s actually illegal in the Netherlands. “Hanging”
In Dutch: https://www.politie.nl/informatie/mag-ik-met-mijn-vrienden-r...
Legally it’s still the exception, the municipality has to make it illegal (although I imagine it happens far too often). But hanging in front of one’s house is legal and actually quite common, at least in Amsterdam, much more so than in for ex. Belgium.
Like you see people put benches or even picknick tables in front of their house, which has no garden or clear separation with the pavement. The houses in this street have a back yard, so if you sit down in the front it’s also to be able to hang out in a social space, do people watching and say hi to your neighbours:
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.351001,5.0003965,3a,57.6y,52...