Tag: Kensington

This year, Olga Rosario is focused on re-establishing classroom norms, routines, and expectations. It’s a challenge.

The artist's JBJ Soul Foundation is a funding partner of 62 new homes on Lehigh Avenue. They will offer an affordable, safe space to make a fresh start.

My mom and my aunt occasionally see my dad under the Market-Frankford El in Kensington. I’m grateful I haven’t seen him that way.

The four-story building in North Philadelphia will provide permanent supportive housing to people who are or have been homeless or are at risk of homelessness.

Governor Tom Wolf said more needs to be done after touring Kensington and seeing firsthand the impact opioid use can take on a neighborhood.

The containment of Kensington’s drug market demonstrates the systematic racism that plagues Philadelphia, Eduardo Esquivel writes.

A company of residents from the area around Harrowgate Park mined Shakespeare’s “Pericles” to tell the story of their neighborhood.

City officials sent a total of $200,000 to 20 community groups dedicated to improving the quality of life in the epicenter of Philadelphia's opioid crisis.

Housing activists withdrew a lawsuit against Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration over a plan to allegedly displace people living in a Kensington encampment.

Protestors, police, and encampment residents mingled on Kensington Ave., one day after a Villanova prof sued the city over its treatment of homeless people.

SEPTA is trying a new approach to keeping its stations clean and safe, while helping people suffering from addiction who take shelter in the transit system.

Temple’s College of Public Health and Prevention Point Philadelphia will host low-barrier, community vaccine clinics twice a week at Step Up to the Plate’s “Love Lot.”

Urban anthropologist and community leader Bill McKinney charts the history of Kensington and signs of a new path forward.

Philadelphia has a new fund to help address the impact of the opioid epidemic on the city’s Kensington neighborhood.

On April 23 at 8 p.m. SEPTA will shut down the elevators at the station for repairs. No date has been set on when they’ll reopen yet.