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Philadelphia sanitation workers on their route. (Image courtesy of Philadelphia Streets Department)
Community

Philadelphia wants you to recycle your (clean) Amazon boxes

The city of Philadelphia is urging people to get back into recycling and learn the tips and tricks to make the effort worthwhile.

4 years ago

The Winter Street Greenway and Rob Stuart Memorial Dog Park (Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation)
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Community

How an activist family got a new park built in Logan Square

Logan Square activists succeeded in their efforts to build the newly opened $1 million Winter Street Greenway and Rob Stuart Memorial Dog Park. Here’s how they got it done.

4 years ago

From left, Revs. Jeanette Davis, Robert Collier Sr. and Greg Holston show ceiling damage in the Waterview Recreation Center's Gym in Northwest Philadelphia. (Abdul R. Sulayman/ The Philadelphia Tribune).
Community

Black clergy group promises to put pressure on for recreation center redevelopment

The Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity is not happy with the state of disrepair throughout the city's parks and recreational centers.

4 years ago

Jessica Pointer (L) accepts a gift, a plant stand, from Lisa Ivery (R) on a sunny, fall morning.
Community

How Buy Nothing takes giving and receiving to a different, more neighborly level

Online Buy Nothing groups grow more popular by the day. Members say the gift-economy has brought them closer than ever before.

4 years ago

Listen 4:36
People wearing face masks play a board game
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Planning for a $15 million rec center begins with board game in Fairhill

A board game is helping Philadelphia officials determine the future of a public works project in a community often left out of public decision-making.

4 years ago

Listen 3:52
David Rose on the steps of the Black Writer’s Museum
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

What Germantown can learn from Lauryn Hill

David Rose moved to Germantown in 2016 to take care of the Black Writers Museum. As he prepares to leave Philly, he reflects on the lessons he learned.

4 years ago

Dr. Ala Stanford speaks glowingly of Pastor Glen Spaulding of the Deliverance Evangelistic Church, who provided the space for her new medical clinic in North Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

The Black Doctors Consortium’s primary care clinic in North Philly is now open

The clinic will offer primary care and behavioral health in North Philadelphia, with an emphasis on preventative medicine.

4 years ago

A photo of the Philadelphia skyline taken in October, 2021
Community

‘Mad or nah?’: Philly residents react to news that city is hyper-segregated

P.O.C, a partner in WHYY’s News and Information Community Exchange, hit the streets to talk with residents about the lack of desegregation in Philadelphia.

4 years ago

Listen 5.19
University City Townhomes
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly Council advances bill to stop demolition of University City Townhomes

A contested bill designed to preserve an affordable rental housing complex in West Philadelphia moved one step closer to becoming law on Tuesday.

4 years ago

File photo: The former PES refinery site in South Philadelphia on June 2020. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Urban Planning

The Bellwether District: Hilco’s new brand for the old PES refinery complex in South Philly

The 1,300-acre South Philadelphia property will become an economic engine for the city in years to come, says the company leading its makeover.

4 years ago

Cast members (from right) Azzari Myers, Eva Vanterpool, Carmi Jackson, and Jamall Phillips rehearse ''Town Hall: Resolution 50'' in Camden’s Northgate Park. The play about environmental racism in Camden will be performed this Saturday, in the park
Arts & Entertainment

Camden teens take on environmental racism in a new play

The play, called “Town Hall: Resolution 50,” posits that the reason Camden has so many infrastructure and environmental problems is because Camden is predominately Black.

4 years ago

Structures with bright colors and bold geometric designs is the signature style of London-based artist Morag Myerscough
Arts & Entertainment

A ‘Magical Fantasy’ appears in the Navy Yard

The public art installation by British artist Morag Myerscough is meant to draw attention to the Navy Yard as a future place to live.

4 years ago

Karen Mouzone, a resident of the University City Townhomes, said that she and other affordable housing residents should not be removed from their homes, at a protest at 39th and Market Streets on October 14, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

‘It’s a part of my life’: West Philly residents protest sale of University City Townhomes

The complex’s owner, Altman Management Company, recently told the government it would not renew a contract to provide affordable housing at the site.

4 years ago

A rat is pictured in Hunting Park.
Community
6abc

Rats are running wild in Philadelphia’s Hunting Park neighborhood

"It jumped up on my couch and went on the floor, and it had claws," said Nydra Skinner of the rat problem.

4 years ago

Exterior of Tat215ive shop (Instagram/@TAT215IVE)
Community
Billy Penn

From the 215: The cultural imprint of Philadelphia’s area code

The numbers are a recognizable signpost for the city, used in everything from music to business to art.

4 years ago

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