Ramp Down The Jawn!

Again, lay off the “sixth borough” talk — spare hard-working Philadelphians your evil scheme to turn their city into the next Ridgewood:

“The vibe here,” said Shawn Hennessey, “is the jawn.” The 27-year-old musician gestured at the neon sign for Silk City, a club-cum-restaurant housed in an old dining car in the gentrifying Northern Liberties neighborhood.

“The jawn is a Philly word,” said Brian Nadav, Mr. Hennessey’s friend and bandmate. “It means ‘a good thing.’ It can be a noun, like you can say, ‘Yo, pass me that jawn’ or ‘I’m the jawn.'” But, he cautioned, “It is never a verb. You never say, ‘I jawned.'”