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Learn about the conditions that led to Frank Furness' most incredible masterworks, including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts seen here, on Wednesday.
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Point Breeze eminent domain passes | Furness's industrial flourishes, caricatures | Convent housing conversion | Blatstein sued | $37m funding restored to agencies, programs
- Friday, November 30, 2012 9:13am
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Happy Friday, Streeters. Here’s what’s making news today. The bill authorizing the city to use eminent domain on 17 vacant properties…
Pennypack Park cleanup inventory: 14 types of balls, 4 kinds of flip flops, a gas canister, part of a shopping cart and more
- Friday, September 28, 2012 4:15pm
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What do a shopping cart, a blue comb, four car tires without rims, two baby dolls, and a frisbee have in…
Help Desk: Pennypack on the Delaware as a wedding venue?
- Friday, August 17, 2012 11:18am
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Today Eyes on the Street's Help Desk takes on a new kind of planning question: wedding planning. Donna Ludwig is helping…
After the flood South of South | Assumption lawsuits continue | Lower Northeast plan update | Liddonfield site to Holy Family | illegal work at Knights of Pythias Greenwood Cemetery
- Monday, July 23, 2012 8:51am
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After a water main broke at 21st and Bainbridge Sunday night, the Fire Department helped evacuate residents via boat. | Rob…
New name for Fairmount Park Art Association | construction at Police Academy | Fumo and tax relief | zombie graduates | $15m to Philadelphia U
- Wednesday, May 9, 2012 9:19am
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The Fairmount Park Art Association has changed its name for the first time since 1872. Now it’s the Association for Public…
LED traffic light savings | strengthening East Falls through school closing | South Street West's boom | PHA mum about Liddonfield | Inky wins Pulitzer | weird 2012 weather
- Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:28am
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Thanks to LED traffic lights, the city anticipates saving $1 million annually, NewsWorks reports. Streets Commissioner Clarena Tolson estimates that…
Stokes House changes hands, redevelopment or restoration possible
- Monday, March 5, 2012 2:24pm
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The Stokes House, a 19th century stone farmhouse in Holme Circle, offers a rare peek into the area's more rural past, standing…
City Hall station work, Council talks jobs and revenue, Nutter promises more resources to fight crime, North Central NID opponents organize, beautifying Holme Circle
- Friday, January 27, 2012 9:01am
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Into Fame | flickr user phillytrax, Eyes on the Street flickr groupSEPTA awarded $7.5 million in contracts to add four…
Holy Family's proposal for Liddonfield site has broad community support
- Friday, January 20, 2012 11:18am
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The Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) has 20 proposals for the former Liddonfield public housing site in Upper Holmesburg. Although the site's…
Future for Liddonfield Homes site still uncertain
- Wednesday, January 4, 2012 4:18pm
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Former Liddonfield Homes, c. 2007 | Google Street View View Larger Map After years of conversation and neighborhood debate, there is…
PennDOT opens rebuilt Holme Avenue Bridge
- Wednesday, October 26, 2011 2:11pm
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The Holme Avenue Bridge was reconstructed this year and reopened on October 25. | Stephen Schultz for NEastPhillyFrom the department…
PennDOT rebuilds Holme Avenue Bridge ahead of schedule
- Friday, September 30, 2011 2:23pm
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A bit of good news via our friends at NEast Philly this week: a bridge reconstruction project that has detoured traffic…
