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WHYY By The 1500 block of Sansom Street in Center City Philadelphia is closed for outdoor dining. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) During the day, the 1500 block of Sansom looks like an outdoor festival frozen midway through setup popup tents and police-style barricades are mixed in with wooden sheds custom built for outdoor dining. By night, it’s one of Philadelphia’s biggest successes in an experiment with converting conventional city blocks into “streeteries,” or outdoor dining areas burnished by the closure of parking or traffic lanes. The experiment has attracted throngs of diners and bargoers and sustained restaurants and bars hit by the pandemic. ....