Brewerytown: Unorthodox Businesses Seek to Connect with Community
David Smith is a limo driver. Edward Taylor is the pastor at Church of the Living God. However, both men have second jobs.
Although these two men have different occupations and operate in different sections of North Philadelphia, Smith in Strawberry Mansion and Taylor in Brewerytown, both run small businesses as a means “to connect with the community,” said Smith.
Born in New York, but now residing in Philadelphia, the avid Yankees and Giants’ fan sells clothes, houseware, electronics and furniture outside his house on Ridge Ave. at an affordable price. Most of his merchandise has been donated from friends or residents of the area. “Usually I tell them, ‘if we sell this I’ll give you half and I get half.”
A few blocks away at 27th and Girard streets Rev. Edward Taylor places a hundred articles of clothing on hangers onto a fence that stretches the entire block. Selling, and sometimes giving away the clothes, Taylor and his wife, Irene, use the money for church and community functions.
“This is an unorthodox business,” said Taylor. “We don’t have electric bills or gas bills. It’s more about giving back than anything else.”
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