South Street was back in the
news over the weekend and not in a good way. Early Sunday (7-11), police had to close off the street after an estimate 20,000 youths congregated there. The draw? Word that there was another Greek picnic in town, an annual event that draws thousands of college-age African-Americans who belong to sororities and fraternities. The problem was: there was no Greek picnic. The teen congregants apparently misread a notice of a small Greek gathering in Yeadon for the larger group. Police shut the street down fearing the crowd would get out of control. It did not, according to officials, it's just that the number of kids hanging on the block was too high. Metropolis recently did a main story about the street, titled South Street Blues. You can read it
here.
