Right NEast/Wrong NEast: Inqy confuses avenue and street 1
Mar24
By Shannon McDonald
Outside media don’t care about the Northeast. We have all seen them misuse, misspell and mistake our neighborhoods and our streets, so we at NEast mag wanted to do something about it. When they get it wrong, we set it right in a segment we like to call Right NEast/Wrong NEast.
In an article about the death of two local firefighters, Inquirer staff writer Robert Moran listed Loretto Avenue as Loretto Street when mentioning Ladder Company 28 in his report. If only major newspapers had access to the Internet. And if only they took the time to care about the NEast. I don’t see the Inqy confusing Girard Avenue with Girard Street.
Email This Post
[...] This isn’t the first time a street/avenue confusion has happened. The Daily News will have to take all the blame for this one. In its coverage of the bus driver who was attacked by two teens on April 2, the paper lists Algon Avenue, the home of one of the accused teens, as Algon Street. A small mistake, but not an innocent one. It should be easy enough to find the proper name on a map. Despite the fact that larger publication ignore the Northeast, we do still appear on Philadelphia maps. [...]