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April 11: Rec center report | Please Touch seeks $30 million | Hidden City Festival returns | Saving the Pennsylvanian | chess champs
Good morning Streeters. Philly broke its 87 degree record temp yesterday, but things are set to cool down a little today. Enjoy! City rec centers are a wreck, a report from…
CityHall App in action | N. Philly contractors flout code | Silverliner V satisfaction | foreclosure auction | Penn and Drexel to share surveillance
Councilman Bobby Henon’s CityHall App is helping to stop bad neighbor behavior through shame. Henon’s CityHall App was released in spring, and now neighborhoods are using it to send eyewitness reports…
Controller: Agencies need to coordinate on code enforcement in North Central
In a press conference Wednesday morning, City Controller Alan Butkovitz released a report detailing rampant non-compliance with city codes on construction sites in North Central Philadelphia. He said that poor and…
Blumenfeld acquires Divine Lorraine | Council shrinking stream buffers | Great Chestnut Hill | Construction violations | Vote without ID
Developer Eric Blumenfeld now owns the Divine Lorraine Hotel. Will Philly's most iconic symbol of blight finally see new life? | Gary Reed, Eyes on the Street Flickr groupGood morning,…
Sneaking a crane onto Goldtex site | City budget hurdle at PICA | Northwood's private security | Manayunk water main break
Dancing Water | phillytrax, Eyes on the Street Flickr groupThe Pestronk brothers orchestrated an elaborate scheme to get a crane onto the Goldtex construction site where union protesters continue to…
Sidewalk cafe manners | School District's gap: $282m | Frankford fights recovery house | South Street West's cool | Amtrak's NE high-speed vision
Night on the Town | Rob Lybeck, Eyes on the Street Flickr GroupByko wants sidewalk cafes to have “good manners” and not hog the city’s sidewalks. The Streets Department expects…
Carpenter Square development, School District sets prices for 12 schools as audit reveals trouble, PHA built without variance, strange slabs on Front Street, Divine Lorraine in pictures
In Southwest Center City, a neighborhood under near-constant construction, the planned Carpenter Square development will transform the neighborhood’s largest piece of vacant land. Last week City Council approved a Redevelopment Authority…
