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Roz Pichardo looks out the window at Kensington Avenue from inside the Somerset El station on April 27, 2019. Pichardo is a Kensington resident who works in the harm reduction community in the neighborhood. (Erin Blewett/Kensington Voice)
Neighborhoods
Philadelphia
Kensington Voice

‘This kind of work will drain you’: How secondary trauma affects people responding to overdoses in Kensington

In the medical field, these individuals are referred to as “zero responder,” or bystanders who step in to reverse the effects before medical professionals get to the scene.

6 years ago

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Philadelphia
Broke in Philly

5 ‘green’ freebies in Philly

Living a sustainable lifestyle doesn’t have to be expensive to benefit the planet. Did you know that Philly has five programs to make environmental action accessible to you?

6 years ago

Rabbi Chaim Goldstein is the director of the Chabad House at Drexel University. His uncle, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, was injured in the shooting at Chabad of Poway synagogue in Southern California. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Higher Education
Philadelphia
Religion

‘Duties are duties’: Philly rabbi pushes on despite attack on uncle’s California synagogue

Rabbi Chaim Goldstein’s uncle lost a finger in the California synagogue attack. His courage has inspired Goldstein to persevere rather than mourn.

6 years ago

In this file photo, Mariner East 2 pipeline construction crews work in the backyards of homes on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, on May 2, 2018 after sinkholes opened in the area. That caused one of the ME2 project's many delays. (Marie Cusick/WITF)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Sunoco buys two homes at Chester County site of Mariner East 2-related sinkhole

State and county documents show the company paid $400,000 each for the properties in Chester County.

6 years ago

An errant tsunami warning alert Monday raised eyebrows at the Jersey Shore and beyond. (Courtesy of NOAA)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Errant tsunami warning reaches some at the Shore and beyond

An errant tsunami warning alert Monday raised eyebrows at the Jersey Shore and beyond.

6 years ago

ResinTech CEO Jeffrey Gottlieb speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for ResinTech’s new Camden headquarters. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Business
New Jersey

Manufacturer bringing 265 jobs to East Camden HQ, aiming to revitalize Federal St. corridor

Mayor Frank Moran foresees the redevelopment of Federal Street corridor as a manufacturer brings headquarters to Camden.

6 years ago

President of Finanta, Luis E. Mora Rechnitz congratulates the sixteen graduates for completing the six-week course. (Lilia Ayllón/ AL DÍA News)
Business
Economic Development
Broke in Philly

A new program supports Latina entrepreneurs on the rise

"Ella Emprende," a new course from Finanta, offers training and development for women business owners and leaders.

6 years ago

Swarthmore College students gather at the Phi Psi fraternity house during a sit-in, Monday, April 29, 2019, in Swarthmore, Pa. (AP Photo)
Higher Education
Pennsylvania

Student protesters occupy Swarthmore fraternity house, want it closed

Students at Swarthmore College occupied a fraternity house after alleged documents describing some members' derogatory comments and sexual assault jokes were leaked.

6 years ago

Greenfield Elementary School playground. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Poetry

WHYY’s Morning Edition listeners honor National Poetry Month through haiku

WHYY's Morning Edition listeners celebrate their neighborhoods through haiku during National Poetry Month.

6 years ago

Rob Reed congratulates Devon Reed as she crosses home plate with help from Baily Otto, a volunteer from Stockton University, during opening day at The South Jersey Field of Dreams in Absecon, New Jersey. The Field of Dreams is a place where physically and mentally disabled children and adults can participate in the game of baseball. (Anthony Smedile for WHYY)
View Finders
Community Events
New Jersey
Sports

Field of Dreams brings joy, baseball to Jersey shore town

Funded by donations and grants, the 16-year-old organization grew from an idea by Absecon resident Barry Hackett whose grandson Jacob is confined to a wheelchair.

6 years ago

Rowhomes at 34th and Spring Garden Street for sale or rent. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Income Inequality
Broke in Philly

Philly housing costs rising faster for poor and middle class than for the wealthy

Housing costs are growing for low-income renters but not higher-income renters and homeowners, worsening income inequality in the Philadelphia region and nationally.

6 years ago

Craig Johnson of Interpret Green and Helena Van Fliet of Bio Philly are pictured in Wissahickon Valley Park during the City Nature Challenge Sunday. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Environment
Outdoors
Public Spaces

From catbirds to butterflies: Here’s what Philly’s finding in its first City Nature Challenge

Monday is the final day of the City Nature Challenge. Philly is competing with 100 other world cities to find and record the greatest number of living things.

6 years ago

Listen 2:05
(Michaela Winberg/Billy Penn)
Changing Communities
Billy Penn

How a formerly homeless man’s letter turned into a meme and inspired a giant picnic

Philly’s furnace party, explained.

6 years ago

Solomon Jones, co-moderator, seated with a sub-panel, during Courageous Conversations: Reimagining Race and Education forum at Enon Tabernacle Church, on Thursday night. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Media
Philadelphia

Columnist Solomon Jones will return to WURD to host morning radio show

WHYY and Philly.com columnist and commentator Solomon Jones will host “Wake Up With WURD” starting May 6.

6 years ago

A group gathers outside the Tree of Life Synagogue for a vigil to honor the victims of the Saturday attack on synagogue in California Saturday April 27, 2019 in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It is six months to the day that a gunman shot and killed 11 people while they worshipped at the Tree of Life Synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Pennsylvania
Public Spaces
Religion

Pittsburgh synagogue: Violence ‘must end. Enough is enough!’

The Pittsburgh synagogue that six months ago was the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history held a vigil and offered its sympathy after another deadly shooting

6 years ago

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