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Community in Port RichmondWomen’s Community Revitalization Project Breaks Ground on Grace Townhouses in Port Richmond
Last week, on a sweltering Friday evening in Port Richmond, the congregation of Firm Hope Baptist Church, the Women’s Community Revitalization Project (WCRP) and three elected officials processed in song…
Megan Matuzak | 09/09/2015 -
Community in Port RichmondWater Mains and Waiting Games: Diagnosing a problem plaguing our streets
Olde Richmond resident Bridget Layden has a stack of photographs detailing her home’s partial-destruction earlier this summer. In some of them, three feet of water has overtaken her basement’s utilities,…
Randy LoBasso | 09/09/2015 -
Community in KensingtonMissing Person in Harrowgate
Philadelphia police are asking for the public's help in locating missing person Patricia Lambert. Lambert was last seen at her home on the 800 block of East Ontario Street.…
Ben Smolin | 09/08/2015 -
Community in Northern LibertiesN3rd Street Celebrates First Birthday
Although the nickname had been floating around for a couple of years beforehand, N3rd Street became official last year. On 3rd Street in between Girard and Market, it's home to a…
Ben Smolin | 09/08/2015 -
Community in FishtownBack to School Supply Drive
We teamed up with the Friends of Adaire to put on a Back to School Supply Drive! We'll take whatever you have, pens, pencils, glue, paper, laptops, tablets, cleaning supplies, gym…
Ben Smolin | 09/08/2015 -
Community in Port RichmondThe Block Church Celebrates One Year Anniversary
The Block Church announced a three-service celebration of their one year anniversary called "ONE." The celebration will be held at Richmond Hall (2619 E. Indiana Ave) on Sunday, September 13. There…
Ben Smolin | 09/04/2015 -
Community in Kensington“Being Neighborly” is back in Vogue in the Riverwards
I remember a time when being from a neighborhood had its perks. If you asked your neighbor for some help, you got it — right then, right there. It was…
Denise M. Krenski | 09/03/2015 -
Community in Port RichmondThe Port Richmond Business Alliance: Sticking Up For the Little Guy
It’s tough out there for a small business owner. You have to find and maintain customers, balance your budget and create a sustainable business plan all at the same time.…
Ben Smolin | 09/03/2015 -
Community in KensingtonImpact Hub Announces Closing
Collaborative creative cooperative working spaces, a convenient mashing of alliterative buzzwords that ultimate means shared office, have gotten a lot of attention in Philadelphia — there are 17 co-working spaces currently…
Ben Smolin | 09/02/2015 -
Community in Port RichmondPort Richmond Tire Salesman Cares For Own Backyard Zoo
If you asked 100 people to picture a pony and its home, it's unlikely that E. Somerset St. in Port Richmond would serve as the setting. Yet there is one,…
Ben Smolin | 09/02/2015 -
A&E in KensingtonFree Screening of “Girlhood” at KCAPA
As part of their Movies on the Block program, Philadelphia Film Society partnered with Kensington Highschool for the Creative and Performing Arts (KCAPA), Fishtown Neighbors Association, Philadelphia Education Fund and…
Ben Smolin | 09/02/2015 -
A&E in FishtownA Tour of the Fillmore + What to Expect on a Busy Opening Night
On what will surely be the first of many hectic evenings, the Fillmore is set to open in just under a month with their sold out Hall and Oates show…
Matthew Albasi | 09/02/2015