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Tribute to the automat on 11th wins preservation award
- Wednesday, April 11, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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Imagine sitting in a charming restaurant on 11th Street, with hip mid-century modern tables and chairs, eating food that you can order with technology. No, it’s not the next James Beard…
City Council brokers compromise with developers on new construction tax and incentives for affordable housing
- Wednesday, April 11, 2018
- By Jake Blumgart
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Philadelphia City Council announced on Wednesday — the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act — an ambitious package of affordable housing bills, including a new tax on construction. The legislation…
L&I commissioner: Boarding houses aren’t going away. Philly neighborhoods need to make room for them
- Wednesday, April 11, 2018
- By Jake Blumgart
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Philadelphia’s Licenses & Inspections Commissioner David Perri thinks that the city’s zoning code is “inadvertently” encouraging property owners to illegally carve dwellings into multi-unit boarding houses. The regulations skirted by such…
Open for business in Old City: Philadelphia Design District
- Tuesday, April 10, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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Friday the 13th: The Philadelphia Design District celebrates its official debut in style, with a launch party and curated exhibit featuring products from members of the nascent collective of independent design…
City Council advances bill to kill Philadelphia's electric vehicle parking program
- Monday, April 9, 2018
- By Jim Saksa
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Philadelphia City Council took another step towards eliminating a program that encouraged electric vehicle ownership on Monday, advancing a bill to kill a little-used city program that allowed residents to create…
Can better informed residents make neighborhoods safer, Philly Councilwoman asks with new bill
- Monday, April 9, 2018
- By Jake Blumgart
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On the heels of a fire that killed four residents of an illegal rooming house in North Philadelphia last month, city leaders are wrestling with how to prevent similar tragedies from…
Former Philly CIO says he was fired over “whistleblower” objections to City Hall’s “racial-hiring” preferences, business practices
- Friday, April 6, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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Philadelphia’s freshly ousted chief information officer Charlie Brennan is suing Mayor Jim Kenney and other high ranking officials claiming that he was fired for complaining about the city’s unlawful “racial-hiring, retention…
SEPTA tweaks Key card costs
- Friday, April 6, 2018
- By Jim Saksa
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It’s a common critique of modern capitalism that our society does not value something until there is a price on it. Starting this May, SEPTA will force riders to assign a…
City Council passes bill extending tax break for longtime homeowners
- Thursday, April 5, 2018
- By Evan Bowen-Gaddy
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City Council passed a bill Thursday that will help longtime homeowners weather real-estate tax hikes in gentrifying neighborhoods, even if they aren’t low-income residents. The bill, introduced by Councilman Kenyatta…
Philly's economy is growing but more people are dying from heroin and homicides
- Thursday, April 5, 2018
- By Jim Saksa
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A booming local economy marked by strong job growth, population gains and a formidable housing market hasn't reduced the share of Philadelphians living in poverty or losing their life to drugs…
Philly is getting a Civil War memorial honoring black soldiers
- Thursday, April 5, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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Philadelphia's newest Civil War memorial will honor black soldiers who fought in the brutal war over slavery. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Mütter Museum will unveil the "interpretative…
Inside the Society Hill library where 'hidden' Philadelphia lives in 19th-century grandeur
- Thursday, April 5, 2018
- By Evan Bowen-Gaddy
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Philadelphia’s popular landmarks tell a story about the city. They serve as a physical embodiment of a familiar history. Independence Hall shows the birth of a nation. The art museum steps…
Broad Street divided on Spruce and Pine bike lane remake
- Thursday, April 5, 2018
- By Jim Saksa
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A crowd of nearly 150 braved the blustery winds Wednesday night to attend an open house on a proposal to move the bike lanes on Pine and Spruce Streets to the…
City failing to deliver on community garden promises
- Thursday, April 5, 2018
- By Catalina Jaramillo
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Community gardening is a labor of love and patience. On scraps of reclaimed vacant land scattered across Philadelphia, people of all incomes and hues work hard during the growing season knowing…
Price tag on Navy Yard subway extension could double original estimate
- Thursday, April 5, 2018
- By Jim Saksa
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Extending the Broad Street Subway to the Navy Yard would cost upwards of $380 million more than originally anticipated when the proposal to extend the city’s north-south transit line down to…
Mapping affordable housing, crime or development in your Philadelphia neighborhood? Two new tools have you covered.
- Wednesday, April 4, 2018
- By Ken Steif
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By Ken Steif I was recently asked to join my neighborhood Registered Community Organization (RCO) – the Spruce Hill Community Association in West Philly. At my first meeting, a University of Pennsylvania…
50 years later, researchers proves Martin Luther King right: Segregation harms all Americans
- Wednesday, April 4, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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Before his tragic assassination 50 years ago on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. cautioned that both minorities and whites who live in segregated communities are exposed to higher levels…
Darrell Clarke: I’ll 'entertain' Temple's stadium proposal if and when the community supports it
- Wednesday, April 4, 2018
- By Jake Blumgart
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For the past couple months, protests against Temple University’s proposed 35,000-seat stadium have dominated the public comment period customary at every meeting of the City Council. Project opponents have called, repeatedly,…
Architects assail Toll's Jewelers Row tower as it moves towards construction
- Tuesday, April 3, 2018
- By Jake Blumgart
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A third public hearing on the design of Toll Brothers’ much-contested Jewelers Row tower ended on Tuesday with representatives of the developer exiting the room before the Civic Design Review meeting…
A Philadelphia library gets 'risky' with a new play space
- Tuesday, April 3, 2018
- By Shai Ben-Yaacov
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It’s a weekday afternoon just before 3:00 p.m. and Cecil B. Moore Library in North Philadelphia is quiet. But librarian Kayla Hoskinson says when school lets out, kids will flock to…
