PlanPhilly Archive

A kid-sized piece of Denmark has landed in North Philadelphia. The new park is a first for Philly.

Monday marked the first day of Mayor Jim Kenney’s latest street-sweeping program, a long-awaited return of cleaning crews to residential areas.

West Philadelphia residents continue to fight to keep the legacy of the Black Bottom alive. The latest push: for historical markers.

Williams Reed Moore Memorial Park in North Philly has been remodeled in memory of the mother and three children who died in a 2014 crash.

University City District, SEPTA’s partner in the project, says overgrown plants affected trolley drivers’ sightlines. Replanting is set for the fall.

A summer literacy program has been expanded to rec centers to help kids learn in person, in their neighborhoods, after a year of virtual school.

Young people are changing their travel routines and asking for help traveling around the city as the gun violence epidemic shatters their sense of safety.

The entrepreneur began to build her yarn empire at 15. But the idea for a vending machine came to Outterbridge during the coronavirus pandemic.

The department launched a YouTube channel where they will release surveillance video hoping that the public will identify people suspected of committing crimes on the system.

The four-lane park drive has seen an increase in speeding drivers, illegal street racing, and fatal car crashes during the pandemic.

Famed opera singer Marian Anderson will soon be immortalized with a statue outside of the Academy of Music.

Philadelphia will launch an expanded street cleaning pilot over the coming weeks — and begin asking residents to move their cars to make way for mechanical sweeper trucks.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation study found Philadelphia’s roadways ranked among the top among large cities.

The Healing in the Hood basketball tournament will be held at Kingsessing Rec Center Sunday.

Philadelphia’s Black clergy are coming out to support tenants as the federal moratorium that had shielded renters from eviction comes to an end.