Spring Garden Street Greenway community design workshop on 12/6
Spring Garden Street could someday be a green connector between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. As previously reported here, the public conversation…
Winter Market, Go West! Craft Fest, Grow Strong, Deck the Alley, Winter Wonderland
Winter Market Friday, December 2, 6-10pm, Saturday, December 3, 6-10pm, Sunday, December 4, 1-7pm. The Piazza At Schmidts, North Second Street…
Council approves contentious zoning changes, Who is Germantown?, blight of Divine Lorraine and on Knox Street, Delaware waterfront trail progress
City Council voted Thursday in favor of contentious zoning changes that pave the way for a Dollar Tree will open at…
Mantua: Multimedia Mural Project Addresses Homelessness Among Children
By Christine Fisher & Kara Savidge, for Philadelphia Neighborhoods When Jane Golden, the executive director of the Mural Arts Program, received…
PHA to auction individual vacant properties on December 7
View PHA Individual Auction in a larger map A second batch of Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) properties will be auctioned Wednesday,…
Behind police eviction of Occupy, City Council considers raft of planning and zoning measures, Magarity Ford redevelopment clears committee, stray horse in Kensington
Title & Trust | flickr user phillytrax, Eyes on the Street flickr group The Inquirer details the large-scale police operation to…
Open house with favela painters Haas & Hahn on 12/1
Dutch artists, Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, have set up studio in Philadelphia to create community-driven public artworks for the next…
Occupy out and homeless shuffle, zoning code comparison, new Center City offices for Penn Medical, neighbors protest demo of Kelly Playground
Dilworth Plaza is no longer Occupied. More than 48 hours after the Mayor's deadline for Occupy Philly to leave Dilworth…
Could a crosstown bus work between South Philly and Market West?
Ever wished there was a bus connecting the Market West area to South Philly east of Broad? Now's the time to…
Ground broken at Ramp Playground for new playing fields
Student athletes at Father Judge High School join President Fr. Joe Campellone and Director of Institutional Advancement Brian Patrick King for…
Church preservation, sparse school closing hearing, new senior housing in Wynnefield, NRDC contests Limerick license renewal, Brewerytown growth,
The Atlantic Cities explores the trouble with church preservation, calling out the preservation debates about Philadelphia’s Church of the Assumption…
Modernist Hillman Medical Center demolition underway
Crews started demolishing the Sidney Hillman Medical Center at 22nd and Chestnut today to make way for a new high-rise residential tower…
Holiday lighting, CitiesAlive, high-speed rail forum, Chinatown Community Center presentation, Northeast Resurgent symposium
Franklin Square’s Grand Lighting and Rittenhouse Square Tree Lighting Tuesday, November 29, 5-7pm, Franklin Square. Wednesday, November 30, 5pm, Rittenhouse…
DAGspace: Confessions of a Center City Booster
Confessions of a Center City Booster by Edwin Bronstein Philadelphia is a great town in which to live. Center City,…
Occupy remains at Dilworth, City tells pensioners to cough up back taxes, The Other Carpenter helps homeowners, NJ Transit restricts bikes
Market Street Miracle | flickr user phillytrax, Eyes on the Street flickr group The Daily News reports Occupy Philadelphia’s tent city…
Long-Weekend Reads
If you're anything like me, you'll leap at the chance to catch up on some longer less straight-news reads over the…
Farewell Autumn
As autumn gives way to the gray days of winter, Autumn's days are numbered too . Back in October, I reported…
Photos from Thanksgiving Day Parades Past, 1967-1973
Happy Thanksgiving, Philly. Eyes on the Street wishes you good cheer among good company today. Things will be a bit quiet…
Parkside: Local Group Plans for Future Sustainable Development
The seven LEED certified row homes built by Habitat for Humanity stand on the 4200 block of West Stiles Street. |…
