Neighborhoods

Rutgers sociologist Stephen Danley complicated question of how to achieve community consensus on controversial projects, reframing issues of power.

A plan to open a supervised injection site in Philadelphia has ignited a debate about the role of public engagement in local decision-making.

Philadelphia has the 4th largest Cambodian population among U.S. cities, and a local organization says the 2010 count was low by several thousand.

Mayor Kenney, who supports the sites, said they could save up to 75 people from overdose death each year.

Philadelphia’s 100,000 streetlamps vary in brightness and intensity, leaving some areas darker, and more dangerous than others.

The Philadelphia developer is seeking approval to build 190 units of housing on an industrial lot with lead and other toxins in soil.

People all across the country have reached out to ask about the fiber borrowing box.

As Philadelphia police search for the person who fatally shot Quadir Flippen, his sister, Nashyia Pinder, is also looking for answers.

This Valentine’s Day, it’ll open as the newest addition to Philadelphia’s lately growing collection of independent bookstores.

A Philadelphia Water Department main ruptured Thursday on the South Philadelphia block recently shaken by an explosion caused by a crack in a 92-year-old gas main.

When Ryan Kellermeyer looks out on the junkyard spanning five blocks in Hunting Park, he doesn’t just see a pile of old cars and scrap metal.

John Longacre’s ill-fated 2015 beer garden attracted anti-gentrification protesters to the lot. Now Ori Feibush plans to build an apartment complex.

I see garbage every day in Elmwood where I live. There are things we can do to help.

After a lengthy court battle with a shadowy slumlord, the city is now the rightful owner of dozens of blighted Germantown housing developments.

Philadelphia residents want to know if they are safe after learning that a cracked gas main caused the explosion that killed two of their neighbors.