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Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood

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Re: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood

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Post by easton »

tptacek wrote: post #83

This rules. I want to do it, but I know I can't personally, because I'm not awake at the hour people normally want coffee. Maybe I can figure out stoop whiskey. Another thing that works for meeting and talking to your neighbors, and has the benefit of attaching you to people who live blocks away from you and not just the people you see getting into the car every morning, is local politics. I've met more people being…

My uncle does thirsty Thursday every week on his porch in his small town. People bring beer from all around.

It definitely works.

Re: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood

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Post by drcongo »

sokoloff wrote: post #296
LawnGnome wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The dog part is definitely key. We moved a few blocks — so within the same neighbourhood — shortly after getting our dog, and it was amazing how much more quickly we got to know our new neighbours with our (extremely extroverted) then-puppy compared to the previous place. (And, on the flip side, I'm on a first name basis with every dog on my block, which usually implies also being on a first name basis with at least…

I can recognize and name more dogs on our block than people.

Ha, me too. I have a terrible mental block with human names but for some reason I can hold the names of 100 dogs in my head.

Re: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood

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Post by itscodingtime »

rottencupcakes wrote: post #214
lofaszvanitt wrote: post #192

Porch monkeys? :D

This comment comes across a little dismissive, but this was my exact thought. What if the people doing this were of another socioeconomic class and were drinking malt liquor? Or even if not imbibing, just smoking a black and mild. Very interesting thought experiment.

Not a thought experiment. Black people do this or something similar all the time. It’s called loitering or “making the neighborhood look bad”

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Post by CalRobert »

reverius42 wrote: post #369
lazyasciiart wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, but if only you could convince all the NIMBY asshats in Seattle who want to live on a half acre lot ten minutes from the center of downtown.

Good luck convincing someone who lives on a half acre 10 minutes from downtown to give that up.

Offering to make them multimillionaires in exchange for the land so you can build apartments should work

Re: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood

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Post by juleiie »

Jesus even reading this makes me uncomfortable. I am glad for city anonymity and solitude forever

Brrr this is horrible stuff of nightmares you guys advocate for. I want to escape my neighbours not having to meet them each time I go out

Ideally we would even push notify button before walking out in a way that we don’t meet each other at all. People are disgusting, terrible and not to be trusted. least you need is more of them

Re: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood

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Post by CalRobert »

xeromal wrote: post #291
jacobolus wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s easier to sit out in the suburbs, but the layout and infrastructure don’t generally encourage walking around, so there are a lot fewer neighbors walking past.

Contrary to apartment buildings where you have to go inside to your unit and there's not a great place to hang out and meet people

Good ones will have a cafe, bar, etc on the bottom

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Post by redlampdesk »

Rented a house with friends in sf in 2016. We created a facebook group for our neighborhood, put up signs, and very quickly had a similar experience. A few neighbors over for drinks one night, hosted a weekend bbq a few weeks later. Quickly got to know a lot of people on my immediate block. One guy fixed my bike. An older woman called me when her fire alarm was intermittently beepting, to see if I could fix it. Had a few other events through the group, they were a highlight of the year. Made it clear to me how much latent desire there is for connection / friends from your neighbors.

Re: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood

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Post by ks2048 »

tptacek wrote: post #143
TeaBrain wrote: post #119

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>That street is basically identical to most of the city of Chicago. The only difference is fewer 2-flats. The front yard space and number of driveways in the Oak Park link also stuck out to me.

This is the Chicago block I grew up on. It's less dense than Oak Park. It's easy find blocks like it elsewhere in Chicago. Jeff Park in Chicago and Oak Park are basically clones of each other. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7099143,-87.6801127,3a,75y,1... This is really what most of Chicago looks like (modulo economic conditions in the different neighborhoods --- they're not all this upscale). It's a city of neighbo…

> Most of the streetscapes that jump to mind about Chicago, if you don't live here, are places people basically don't live.

Note that 41k live in the Loop and 27k live in Jefferson Park.

Maybe if you sample by area, places look more suburban than stereotypical cities, but by population, lots of people live in the dense parts.

100k in the Near North Side, which I think is basically a “downtown” streetscape.

And of course many in the in-between density neighborhoods (eg 71k in Logan Square).

Source:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_areas_in_Chicago

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