Public Spaces

Sammy’s Place on North 5th Street bucks the trend — and has been attracting a younger crowd.

The Greater & Greener conference brought close to a thousand park leaders and professionals from six countries to check out Philly’s parks.

Visitors said the event, now in its second time outdoors, was head and shoulders above last year’s edition.

The facility will have a new athletic field, a new recreation center, sprayground, and other amenities, including both indoor and outdoor classrooms.

In separate rulings Thursday, judges in Monmouth and Ocean counties issued rulings prohibiting the parties from taking place without organizers first obtaining permits.

The city will open 50 of its 63 pools this summer — eight more than last year.

Some are worried it ruins the view, but it’s only temporary, the city says, to accommodate the rush of pandemic-delayed weddings.

We Walk PHL is getting Philadelphians moving in parks across the city. Residents are getting healthy and making connections through the power of walking.

The engagement initiative is part of a long-term plan to transform the area from Logan Circle to the art museum into a more welcoming, “people-centric” space.

Two popular Jersey Shore towns are going to court to try to block so-called “pop-up parties” at which thousands of people gather on the beach.

The city has granted $100K toward a planning process to figure out what the weekly Cambodian marketplace in FDR Park needs to thrive.

The city is working on ways to make the city safer in the wake of a deadly mass shooting that left three people dead and 11 others wounded.

Sociologist and author Elijah Anderson joins us to discuss his new book, 'Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life.'

The community green space in Haddington was awarded to a Turn the Key developer with little notice or discussion. The Land Bank is now reconsidering its process.

At least three people were killed Saturday night and 12 others injured when multiple shooters fired at one another amid a crowd on busy South Street.