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Hundreds of fans, friends and family mourn at a vigil for battle rapper Akeem Mickens (professionally known as Tech9) at the Happy Hollow playground, in the Germantown section of Philadelphia on Tuesday Jan 26, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
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Arts & Entertainment

Sudden death of famed Philadelphia battle rapper Tech 9 inspires call for ‘Tech Day’

Tech 9 was a renowned battle rapper with a career that took him from verbal spars in Philadelphia to compete with the nation’s best in battles treated like prizefights.

6 years ago

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James Smith Jr. rents a room in Victor Pickney's rooming house. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Community
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Rooms for rent: Inside Philadelphia’s shadow housing market

One year ago, a family died in a Philadelphia rooming house fire. City officials promised reform. Nothing has changed.

6 years ago

Terry Williams standing in one of Eastwick's polluted, urban renewal tracts.  (Troubled Waters Project)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
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Philadelphia seeks to heal old Eastwick wound with a ‘village in the city’

Philadelphia’s ‘road map’ for Eastwick development moves a process 60 years in the making forward.

6 years ago

Abdelmgeed Muhammad Elgamal inside of his produce market on Allegheny Avenue in Kensington Tuesday. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Grant aims to create economic opportunity in embattled Kensington

Through $5 million from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, a partnership will provide loans for residents to open small businesses, buy homes, and become real estate developers.

6 years ago

Gina Dukes, a Penn alumna and a Philadelphia school district teacher, speaks at a rally to demand UPenn make PILOT payments. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Education
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Education activists call on Penn to pay ‘fair share’ to support city schools

The University of Pennsylvania is exempt from paying property taxes in Philadelphia. Activists say the school should contribute its ‘fair share’ for city services anyway.

6 years ago

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Ricardo Wilson moved into his unit in the new Sharswood Tower in North Philadelphia this week. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Urban Planning
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Sharswood residents return home after $28 million tower upgrade

Philadelphia Housing Authority reopened Sharswood Tower on Wednesday. Residents returning home celebrated their zhuzhed up digs.

6 years ago

A Philadelphia judge purchased this row home at 1514 N. Hollywood Street and the two adjacent vacant lots from the city. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
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An end to sweetheart deals? Kenney orders competitive city land sales

The new sale policies call for the sale of most property to be publicly advertised for at least 30 days.

6 years ago

Ben She is on the transit committee for an activist organization called 5th Square. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
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Why SEPTA’s annual open house drew fewer riders than your morning train

Riders missed an opportunity to be in the room with SEPTA officials at annual open house.

6 years ago

A view of the Philadelphia skyline from the 52nd Street station on the Market-Frankford elevated line in West Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Money
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Pew: Philadelphians pay more taxes than most big city residents

A new Pew report found Philly’s reputation as a heavy taxer is valid. The reasons why are complicated.

7 years ago

Luis Martinez holds a chicken that he has been nursing in a community garden in Kensington. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Community
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Backyard farmers support Philadelphia bill to legalize undercover chicken coops

Farm animal legislation passed in 2004 placed restrictions on what people could keep in areas smaller than three acres — an attempt to crackdown on backyard farms.

7 years ago

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SEPTA may be solving its product design problems with a $2.9 million package of fixes to its e-commerce platform. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

‘Hip’ new SEPTA Key site is one of many fixes in the works

SEPTA may be solving its product design problems with a $2.9 million package of fixes to its e-commerce platform.

7 years ago

Mayor Jim Kenney and bicycle advocates in front of City Hall. (Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia/Facebook)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
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Kenney: Philly streets ‘suck’ but city making progress

The city plans to speed up construction of the greatly expanded network of protected bike lanes that Mayor Jim Kenney promised during his 2015 campaign.

7 years ago

A makeshift memorial is shown near the location where a mother and three young sons were struck and killed while trying to cross a busy highway after dark, Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in Philadelphia.  (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
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Urban Planning
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Philadelphia’s deadliest road is inching toward speed cameras

Philadelphia drivers can expect to see speed enforcement cameras on Roosevelt Boulevard by the end of the year, city officials said Thursday.

7 years ago

Mayor Kenney pitches sugary drink tax as key for his Pre-K and Rebuild initiatives, March 2016
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy
PlanPhilly

Philadelphia Council introduces bill to phase out soda tax

A bill introduced by City Councilwoman María Quiñones-Sánchez at a City Council meeting on Thursday would gradually phase out a portion of the tax on sweetened beverages.

7 years ago

A rendering of a mixed-use development Parkway has proposed for a surface parking lot it owns at the intersection of North Broad and Spring Garden streets. (BLT Architects/Parkway Corp.)
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Urban Planning
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Philly’s Parkway Corp. seeks $5 million grant for Center City office tower

Parkway is cashing in on its Center City holdings — converting asphalt expenses into downtown office and condo towers with desirable addresses.

7 years ago

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