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Home2012December

Month: December 2012

Holmesburg

Northeast: Prostitution Problem Increases Along Frankford Avenue

December 15, 2012

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo Fourteen years ago, Joe Nicoletti made the decision to come back to his roots in Tacony where family settled in the

Amateur Sports

Haddington: Olympic Champ Trains Young Boxers

December 11, 2012

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo At 6 feet 5 inches, Tyrell Biggs presents an intimidating physical presence. However, due to his quiet demeanor, it is easy

Amateur Sports

Overbrook Park: Skate Park Project Rerouted

December 9, 2012

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo A proposed skate park at Rose Playground in Overbrook Park has been wheeled to another location. Instead of the skate facility,

Center City

Center City: Church Offers Services and Help to Immigrants

December 8, 2012charper

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo The Tenth Presbyterian Church, located at 1701 Delancey St., has over 1,400 members and a large church service in its main

North Central

North Central: Neighborhood Recalls a Lost Son

December 7, 2012

Josias Sterling had a big smile, a big heart and he loved to eat apple pie. Not just a slice but the whole pie. “He use to come to my house and ask for some

Lawncrest

Lawncrest: PhillyRising Connects With Community

December 6, 2012Christopher Malo

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo PhillyRising is relatively new to Lawncrest, a neighborhood located in the 2nd Police District. Citron said he spent time building connections within the

Frankford

Frankford: Looking At PhillyRising One Year Later

December 6, 2012

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo Vacant buildings have become spaces for art galleries, overgrown brush in parks has been trimmed, vacant lots have been cleared from

Social Issues

Plan Philly: School Buyers Use Different Tactics with Surrounding Communities

December 6, 2012

The School District of Philadelphia began closing, consolidating and selling off schools in conjunction with its facilities master planning process in 2010. This plan was put into motion in the face of the estimated 70,000

Abandoned Property

Plan Philly: Vacant School Buildings Affect Surrounding Communities

December 6, 2012

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo A group of young boys shoot a basketball into an aging hoop at the end of a large asphalt school yard.

Featured Stories

Kensington: The Economics of Property Development Eliminates Many Residents

December 6, 2012

https://vimeo.com/54823752 Though homeownership is believed to be able to reduce crime and transform neighborhoods, the economic reality of housing in Kensington makes the goal of homeownership difficult for many to achieve. Nick Huynh, 43, is

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  • People stand on a sidewalk beneath a pale gray sky. The street behind them is between two tan stone buildings with floor-to-ceiling glass windows on their ground levels, and the multicolored glass exterior of a parking garage shines further down the street, next to some taller red brick buildings. Glass windows are visible behind the people on the sidewalk. Some of them wear raincoats or windbreakers, and some of them hold umbrellas of various colors. Two men in the right half of the image, one southeast Asian and one white, wear clerical collars. They are all waving wooden rods with thick red ribbons tied to the ends of them in the air. Most of the people present appear to be white and/or over the age of 50. One bearded, middle-aged man in a gray and black windbreaker and black pants points a camera towards the bottom right corner of the image, where a blue banner reads “GOD STANDS WITH THE OPPRESSED.” To the banner’s left, a canvas with a monarch butterfly painted on it is draped over a concrete sidewalk barrier. A blue bicycle is parked behind the man with the camera, and a black car in the street drives past the group of people.
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