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Two young men were spotted attaching notices for a "party" on the Traffic Standards, Utility Poles and Street Light Fixtures on Germantown Ave. Between Ashmead St. and Price St. this afternoon. The notices advertised a party at 1523 Courtland St, April 22nd at 8PM. The notice gives a YouTube address: YoungBok215 and a Google Address: Bev7Entertainment and they were kind enough to leave a phone #215-621-7170. I removed as many as I could. The rest will have to wait. The onslaught of street spam is a plague. This was reported to 911. Hopefully they'll be caught. Two males in their late teens carrying stacks of brightly colored paper and a mailing tape dispensers shouldn't be too difficult to spot.

Sometime between 11AM Monday,4-18-11 and 9AM Tuesday, 4-19-11 someone posted signs on almost every traffic standard and light fixture on Germantown Ave. between Penn St and Armat St. The signs read "JUNK CARS" 267-784-3100. I was able to remove the signs that were attached with staples but the culprit ingeniously attached some of the signs to metal with a strong adhesive. These signs are known as street spam or snipe and they are distracting to motorists, they really detract from the aesthetics of the avenue and they are hideously ugly. I'd love to catch this creep in the act.

PGW and PWD performed maintenance in front of the Cunningham Piano Co. Factory on East Coulter St. in December 2010. For the past 4 months the 2 excavation sites have not been finished and one even has wooden planks covering the hole in the pavement. There are white plastic caution barriers at the 2 sites but they are knocked down every night. This has been a pedestrian hazard since before Christmas,2010.

The property located between Holsey Temple and the Germantown Friends School Parking lot on the east side of Germantown Ave is now a vacant lot that has become a short dumping site and is filled with litter. At this time there no one that is responsible for the maintenance of this property and it has been left to gather trash and litter.

A trash dumpster has been placed by Cunningham Piano Co. on the street. This was placed there before Christmas, 2010 because of PGW work on the sidewalk. The problem has been corrected but the dumpster has remained in place for 3 months. It is a magnet for short dumping, graffiti tagging and when it was placed there in the past it was actually set ablaze. This dumpster is a safety hazard and a sanitation hazard. Cunningham is aware of this problem but they have not bothered to do anything about it.