This month, Eyes on the Street is taking a long, leisurely stroll down the Parkway exploring recent projects, with a peek into the future and the past.
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NoLibs Night Market
Food trucks and vendors lined 2nd Street in Northern Liberties on Thursday night for the the first Night Market of the season.
Memorial Day Weekend: Fairmount Restaurant Week, Arts on South, Cedar Park Jazz, Latin Arts Explosion, Decoration Day
‘Lines in Four Directions in Flowers’ artwork planted
7,000 precisely-placed plantings form a new living art installation outside the Art Museum, thirty years after it was initially proposed by conceptual artist Sol LeWitt. [time-lapse video]
Sister Cities rave | Council’s AVI splits | SEPTA’s tough budget | L&I dresses up | front door, trap door
Rodin Museum Rejuvenation
Inside the Rodin Museum a three year, phased conservation project almost finished. Here’s what’s been going on behind the Museum’s closed doors since last fall.
Vacant property disposition issues | Greensgrow lessons | overtaking Bodine Street | thousands protest school outsourcing plan | Night Market NoLibs
From Above: Building the Parkway and Art Museum, 1920 and 1921
Ever wonder what the Parkway looked like in its earliest years? What the art museum looked like when it was under construction? Here’s an aerial peek from the 1920s.
LENS: Photographing Philadelphia from above
In 1919 the Aero Service Corp. started photographing Philadelphia from above. Eyes on the Street will be featuring selections from this archive in an ongoing series.
City’s role in abandonment, blight | ‘Front Door’ opens | Germantown archaeology | Henon’s billboards | threatened turtle spotted
Assessment: AVI impact roundup
What will the impact of Actual Value Initiative be? And if the administration can’t answer that question sufficiently, should the city wait one year?
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