It's time for another edition of The Center City Gentrifier

The man on the right isn't a customer, just someone walking by as I was shooting a photo of the abandoned car. See the original photo here.

Made with FD's Flickr toys. I made a couple of these last year, but had to remove them from public view because some of the headlines were just a little too direct, and could get me in trouble, especially because I regularly testify before various Council committees.

This cover is in response to my seeing an abandoned car on West Virginia Ave. NE yesterday, with taped signs advertising the car as "free" for the taking, with a prostitute ambling by, before 7 pm in the evening! While I was over there, at least two police cars drove by (it's down the street from the Police Dept. Maintenance Garage).

With this "issue," I didn't make any headline very controversial, unlike the last time, meaning I can keep the image up and public.

The idea was originally spawned in reaction to a cropped photo by Inked78 on the Frozen Tropics blog, as well as the "American Gentrifier" covers produced as part of Stay Free Magazine. See the photo and comments in "Out for a Walk," from Frozen Tropics, October 2005. My first "Center City Gentrifier" cover used this photo.

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