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Facade work refreshes 30th Street Station as Amtrak shops its commercial-district plan
- Wednesday, August 8, 2018
- By Jim Saksa
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When Pennsylvania Railroad moved its headquarters from Broad Street to 30th Street Station upon its completion in 1935, the shift was seen as an attempt to move Philadelphia’s downtown to the…
What a walk along Germantown Avenue reveals: Tough going for pedestrians
- Tuesday, August 7, 2018
- By Meir Rinde
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Kelli McIntyre stood in light rain on Germantown Avenue, holding a clipboard and watching as car after car ignored a “Do Not Enter” sign and turned up a small street called Ashmead Place. “Somebody just went the…
Now that court has ruled, a resurgent Rebuild selects Harrowgate playground for rehab
- Monday, August 6, 2018
- By Malcolm Burnley
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- Hetizman Playground, Philadelphia PA
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In the background of a Monday press conference at Heitzman Playground in Harrowgate, where city officials announced another site for Mayor Jim Kenney’s Rebuild initiative, a slogan painted on the old…
The high cost of being broke: Transportation
- Monday, August 6, 2018
- By Aaron Moselle
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On the 11th floor of a Center City office building, Rian Franks and Jacqueline Chapman sit just a few feet away from each other. Both travel from West Philadelphia. But the…
Grays Ferry's long-closed Lanier Playground reopens, with new hope and new purpose
- Monday, August 6, 2018
- By Malcolm Burnley
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- Lanier Playground, Philadelphia PA
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Located in the heart of Grays Ferry, Lanier Playground had been closed since 2005, but memories of when it brimmed with activity stayed alive in longtime neighborhood residents. You’d hear stories…
Philly Free Streets, Part 3, moves to North Broad on Aug. 11
- Friday, August 3, 2018
- By Tom MacDonald
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Philadelphia is shutting down North Broad Street, Saturday, August 11, to show off the major artery. This third edition of Philly Free Streets will close the street to cars from 8…
Implicit in tackling racial biases, an expert says: Knowing the history
- Friday, August 3, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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The Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel on 17th Street hosted racial-sensitivity training for about 50 front-line employees Thursday after a hotel staff member wrote a three-letter slur against those of Japanese ancestry…
With Labor Day just ahead, Philly makes block-party permit seekers work harder
- Friday, August 3, 2018
- By Jim Saksa
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Philly loves a good block party. Philadelphia is the block-party capital of America, holding more of them than any other peer city, according to a 2013 Philadelphia City Paper article.…
Disturbing discovery at Weccacoe Playground: A black doll, hanging from a noose
- Thursday, August 2, 2018
- By Aaron Moselle
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Police were called out Thursday to investigate an apparent hate crime at a South Philadelphia playground where neighbors organized to honor a historic African-American burial ground sitting just beneath the asphalt.…
Rain, rain flows away, no longer puddles at Malcolm X Park
- Thursday, August 2, 2018
- By Meir Rinde
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As happens on many blocks around the city, heavy rains used to turn the southeast corner of Malcolm X Memorial Park in West Philadelphia into a deep puddle. Water flowed down…
The state of art galleries is changing in Philly’s Old City
- Wednesday, August 1, 2018
- By Peter Crimmins
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The Rodger LaPelle Galleries in Philadelphia’s Old City was considered knowledgeable, generous, and reasonably lucrative — but not terribly well organized. After four decades of buying, selling, trading, storing, championing, critiquing,…
In Philly, planners increasingly want to talk with you, not at you
- Wednesday, August 1, 2018
- By Jim Saksa
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Public planning meetings can be contentious, to say the least. Randy LoBasso would know. As the communications director for the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, he attends a lot of these…
An appreciation: Jeremy Nowak challenged assumptions about what was impossible
- Tuesday, July 31, 2018
- By Jim Saksa
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The irony was that people always assumed things about him. Jeremy Nowak lived to challenge dusty assumptions and the soft thinking that emerges from the comforts of ideology. He was a…
Remember Asian-Americans in those cultural-competency conversations
- Tuesday, July 31, 2018
- By Fernando Chang-Muy
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“Where are you from?” “You speak great English.” While these statements no doubt can come from a good place from a non-Asian-American trying to break the ice or even make nice…
A community-based public-land study comes to an end, and trust is rebuilt in Eastwick
- Monday, July 30, 2018
- By Catalina Jaramillo
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Healing wounds and recovering trust are not easy things to do. Yet that’s what Eastwick residents and the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, in coordination with other city agencies, set out to accomplish…
A 1918 ‘race war’ and its ties to Philadelphia’s present
- Friday, July 27, 2018
- By Avi Wolfman-Arent
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Around 1 o’clock on weekday afternoons, a group of Grays Ferry old-timers gather around a plastic picnic table inside Bufus Outlaw’s garage on the 2600 block of Ellsworth Street. The menu…
Has Market at Fareway violated a 40-year covenant? Some in Chestnut Hill think so
- Thursday, July 26, 2018
- By Jake Blumgart
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Around 8 o’clock on a recent weeknight, Chestnut Hill’s Market at the Fareway is a hive of activity. Food vendors inside the old car barn are doing a brisk trade in…
A fresh look at the city's tax-aid programs for its many homeowners
- Thursday, July 26, 2018
- By Jake Blumgart
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In Philadelphia, fears about development and neighborhood change are often couched in terms of rising home values and increasing property taxes. Philadelphia may be the poorest big city in America, but…
SEPTA drops AT&T, renames ex-Pattison Station for NRG Energy
- Thursday, July 26, 2018
- By Jim Saksa
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What’s in a name? A subway station by any other name would smell less than sweet. The Juliets who take the Broad Street Line to cheer on the home teams may…
Exploring ways to cool down neighborhoods vulnerable to the heat
- Wednesday, July 25, 2018
- By Catalina Jaramillo
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It was 85 degrees Monday afternoon in Hunting Park. Milagros Soto and Pablo Cuevas were sitting on their stoop, catching a breeze. "The heat is too hot,” said Soto, 36, who…
