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Love Note #147: A love story by Jackie Chipotle featuring the Passyunk Fountain
Today Eyes on the Street brings another installation in our Philly Love Notes collaboration with this love story starring Passyunk Avenue's Singing Fountain in a supporting role. Love Note #147: A…
South Philly group battles ongoing litter problem
Philadelphians might not like to admit it, but our city is trashy. Philly has a serious litter problem, and cleaning up our act is an ongoing battle that can often be…
December 7-9: Lucia Fest | Crafty Balboa | March of Lights | Menorah lighting
75th Annual Lucia Fest Gloria Dei (Old Swede’s) Church, Columbus Boulevard and Christian Street. Friday, December 7, 6pm and 8pm. Saturday, December 8 and Sunday, December 9, 2pm, 3:30pm, and 5pm.…
Callowhill Neighbors appeal Assumption demo | New waterfront zoning in 2013 | 245 hybrid buses replacing diesel | Market West smut duo closes
Good morning, Streeters. Happy Thursday. Today’s City Council agenda [pdf] includes votes on the city’s Complete Streets legislation and residential parking minimums for developments around Temple. Here’s this morning’s buzz: The…
Revamping 40th Street Trolley Portal | Support for 50-foot stream buffers | Contested Washington Avenue | Dolphin Tavern to reopen
Good morning, Streeters. Today is the deadline to apply for the homestead exemption for next year’s property taxes. The simple application [pdf] is due by the end of business…
Searching South Philly for sustainable streets
Do you know how often a pedestrian is hit by a car in Philadelphia? Or how many bathtubs worth of water are treated by the stormwater planters on 13th Street? As…
October 12-14: Reading Terminal Harvest Festival | Passyunk Square Home Tour | Blocktober Fest | 'Boring' Architecture
Reading Terminal Market Harvest Festival Saturday, October 13, 10am-4pm. Filbert Street, between 11th and 12th. Filbert Street will be closed for an urban-farm block party with bales of hay and a…
Spring Garden Connector RFP | Sen. Casey visits Kenzo Renewal | Annunciation BVM School conversion | Woodland Ave. water main break | Point Breeze house collapse
Good morning, Streeters! Hope you enjoyed the weekend and are feeling ready for some real fall weather. Today’s high? A crisp 55°. Today is Columbus Day, which means that government offices,…
DAG and PennPraxis at 10 | Navy Yard energy | East Falls speed | East Passyunk Acme parking
3rd and Market | David Swift, Eyes on the Street Flickr GroupThis year marks the 10th anniversary for both the Design Advocacy Group and PennPraxis. In her column today Inga…
Scenes from Park(ing) Day 2012 [slideshow]
Did you stumble across people coloring flowers, lounging on curvy benches, working at desks, or camping in a parking space on Friday? September 21 was Philadelphia's fifth annual Park(ing) Day,…
On the brink of reaching a 10,000-jobs milestone, Navy Yard will soon release an updated Master Plan
The Philadelphia Navy Yard will soon be home to as many workers as the shipyard employed before it closed.At the end of this year, GlaxoSmithKline will finish construction on its…
South Philly Food Co-Op Passes 300 Member Mark at Second Annual Garden Tour
The South Philly Food Co-Op’s (SPFC) second annual garden tour featured 24 home and community gardens spanning from Ellsworth to Wolf streets and Second to 22nd streets in South Philadelphia Saturday.…
September 7-9: | Honey Festival | Secret Cinema @ Eastern State | South Philly Garden Tour
Honey Festival Friday, September 7-Sunday, September 9. It's a full weekend all about bees and honey.On Friday learn about beekeeping and taste honey and mead at The Wagner Free Institute of…
BigBelly dumping | church vacancy crisis | improved fresh food access | NoLibs' rapid transition | Finnegan's Wake balcony impasse | PPA moves to Market East
East Passyunk’s new BigBelly compactors have become such magnets for residential trash and litter that most are being pulled from the street, the Daily News reports. Neighbors were putting so…
July 27-29: Brewerytown Food Truck Roundup | Philadelphia Orchestra Neighborhood Concert | Olympics in Mt. Airy | Sun Ra Arkestra | East Passyunk Car Show
Brewerytown Food Truck Roundup Friday, July 27, 5-7pm. 27th Street and West Girard Avenue. The Philadelphia Mobile Food Association has put together a pop-up event featuring 15 of its member trucks, music,…
Considering Rodeph Shalom's addition | spray park for Shissler Rec | King of Jeans signage | Assumption sold for $1.12m | Bike fun fading
KieranTimberlake’s design for an addition to the historic Rodeph Shalom building on North Broad leaves Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron unimpressed. She writes, “The designers, unfortunately, have concentrated so much energy…
June 1-3: Food Truck Pop-Up, Roots Picnic, Craft Beer Day
Concrete Fantasy | Jeremy Fountain, Eyes on the Street Flickr GroupFood Truck Pop-Up Friday, June 1, 6-10pm. Lutheran Settlement House, 1390 Frankford Avenue. The Philadelphia Mobile Food Association, the food-truck…
Music as neighborhood anchor | Mayor Blondell? | Gray's Ferry garden fight | Delaware waterfront development limbo | reviewing Economic Opportunity
Can music venues actually improve neighborhoods? They often face community opposition but Flying Kite considers the examples of Fishtown's Johnny Brenda’s, Union Transfer on Spring Garden, and planned rebirth of South…
April 27-29: Astronomy Night, Shadfest, Flavors of the Avenue, Fairmount Arts Crawl
Astronomy Night Friday, April 27, 8pm. 20 locations. As part of the Philadelphia Science Festival, Astronomy Night is back at more than 20 venues in and around Philly, including the Franklin…
Take the Lower Schuylkill Master Plan survey!
For those who could not attend our public meetings in January, the Lower Schuylkill Master Plan team has created this online survey to make sure that anyone interested can respond and…
