Neighborhoods

Residents want the city to deal with the issue of human feces, which transmits the disease.

After a shooting at Baker Playground in Overbrook injured 7 people, the community organized a rally against gun violence exactly one week later.

Newt’s swim spot was a community hub.

The sound is like “a paper cut in your ear.”

Neighbors say that, even before the fire, the refinery’s foul smells and smog made the air impossible to breathe on hot summer days.

Two Philly leaders got some extra funding for cool public space ideas.

The future of the Germantown Special Services District is in doubt after commercial property owners voted to block its re-authorization.

Council President Darrell Clarke is moving forward with legislation aimed at limiting the development of apartment buildings in his North Philly district.

Philadelphia residents disagree on the best way to control the hundreds of thousands of cats freely roaming the city. The quandary involves

When the School Reform Commission went against neighborhood desires and closed Fairhill along with 21 other schools in 2013, officials promised to sell the buildings.

The building will be designed by ISA Architects, a firm with a history of success on odd lots such as the narrow Chinatown lot.

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.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, challengers state Sen. Anthony Williams and former City Controller Alan Butkovitz talk property taxes and violence in Germantown.

As Philly's vacant land becomes more valuable to buyers, growers who claimed abandoned lots for community gardens are at risk of losing these beloved spaces.

A look at Philly’s college-area special service districts.