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Neighborhoods

The Parkade on 8th parking garage in Canter City.
Urban Planning
Billy Penn

Sixers aim to minimize arena parking concerns with a new ‘smart routing’ partnership

Using plate-reading and associated software, ticket holders who drive in would be sent to to the lot closest to their route of arrival.

2 years ago

2802 Kensington Ave., a 1930s building that for over a half-century has been home to Phil's Appliances on the ground floor, with apartments above. (Google Street View)
Community
Billy Penn

Repair shop that starred in ‘12 Monkeys’ devastated by fire that exemplifies Kensington problems

Phil’s Appliances, which opened in the late 1960s, was recently boarded up, and people are thought to have been living inside.

2 years ago

Swarthmore community members listen together to a podcast episode
Community

Eroded by gentrification, Swarthmore’s historically Black neighborhood is working to preserve a 100-year history

For newcomers, Saturday’s podcast listening party was a history lesson. But for Swarthmore’s historically Black neighborhood, storytelling is a way of resisting erasure.

2 years ago

A mural on a library wall
Community
Billy Penn

A South Philly library gets a vibrant new mural designed by neighborhood kids

The Charles Santore branch has been transformed with paintings that celebrate sisterhood and fun.

2 years ago

Ben Nachum 在他的药房前摆姿势拍照
Community

这条北费城街道有50多家小型企业,但看不到任何银行

对于费城的一些小企业主来说,公共安全问题已经以最糟糕的方式改变了商业走廊。

2 years ago

Interior at Chika, a Blade Runner-inspired ramen bar from Glu Hospitality and chef Dean Leevongcharoen
Arts & Entertainment

What to expect at Chika, Center City’s Blade Runner-inspired underground ramen bar

The new Center City spot is a venture by Glu Hospitality, with a chef who trained in Japan and previously had his own restaurants.

2 years ago

an empty lot filled with grass
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

‘Sometimes you just get tired’: City releases RFP to redevelop troubled Logan Triangle

A developer walked away from the project after spending nearly a decade trying to breathe new life into the site.

2 years ago

Cinnamon sticks, wraps, and breakfast sandwiches from Day Break Eggs
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

There’s a hidden food court in Grays Ferry, with breakfast sandwiches, BBQ, burritos, pizza, and more

The venture is an offshoot of catering company Chef’s Table. It serves breakfast sandwiches, BBQ, burritos, pizza, and more.

2 years ago

People walk together holding a banner sign that reads Peoplehood
Community

‘Collective liberation is the goal’: The Peoplehood Parade marches through West Philly

Puppets speak truth to power in this annual tradition organized by art-as-activism group Spiral Q.

2 years ago

Rendering of the proposed 76 place
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

‘A world-class boulevard’: Master plan details new vision for Market East corridor

The study comes as the Sixers push to build a new arena in Center City Philadelphia.

2 years ago

File photo: Students from W. B. Saul High School and Samuel Gompers Elementary School helped the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and Philadelphia’s Parks and Recreation plant black gum trees on the Belmont Plateau on Arbor Day, April 29, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Federal money coming to Philly for tree planting, lead paint awareness, and A/C units

Over $4 million in federal grant money will flow to nonprofits and local governments to support environmental justice in the Philly region.

2 years ago

Listen 1:05
Eric Marsh Sr. speaks at the front of the room.
Community

In North Philly, conversations on voter turnout and impact underscore the importance of investment in community

As Philly gears up for its mayoral election next month, WHYY’s Bridging Blocks team raised the question: Will this next election season have low voter turnout? If so, why?

2 years ago

Listen 1:31
The YWCA in Germantown.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Developer unveils new plan for Germantown YWCA amid funding concerns

The city selected KBK Enterprises to redevelop the historic property in 2016. But the building remains vacant and blighted.

2 years ago

Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

New public art initiative ‘Legacy Reclaimed’ aims to revive the Black history of Philly’s former 7th Ward

The tribute runs October through February, with imagery, walking tours, interactive games, and discussion salons.

2 years ago

Opponents of the proposed 76ers arena in Chinatown display signs in City Council chambers
Community
Billy Penn

Sixers arena saga: As the November election nears, the politics get messy

A timeline of everything that’s happened so far regarding 76 Place.

2 years ago

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