Recently, I returned to retrace my steps. Back then I would walk down to the circle for lunch, usually stopping to visit a friend who worked at the lunchmeat counter in the five and dime. The circle is still busy with a lunch crowd, even without a NIZ subsidized by Pennsylvania taxpayers.
The buildings, for the most part, are original and charming. Easton is up and coming, because it wasn't lucky enough to become revitalized with sterile towers of architectural mediocrity.
I even stopped in to visit Sal Panto at the new city hall. I suspect he saw me coming through a surveillance system, because his secretary assured me that he wasn't in.
reprinted from April of 2018
Freight train crossing river in Easton in 1939
That area has been neglected for many years as you correctly note.
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Do parking lots require silly riparian weed walls, too?
For all its difficulties, and there are a few, Downtown Easton is a refreshing place to walk. I'm hoping the non-NIZ buildings by Reilly does improve it even more. What a great location for those New York woikers to live and still be in their Wall St. Office in a little more than an hour. Hopefully, too, this is good for TransBridge Buses, a really good local company.
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