Year: 2014

Aside from the numerous franchise grocery stores and fast-food restaurants, Kensington is home to some of the city’s most interesting food storefronts. Vivero Saba Halal Live Poultry In the middle of an urban jungle, the [continue reading…]

Mural-covered and filled with sounds of chatter and faint music, Old City’s co-working space Indy Hall sees a rotating cast of about 70 of its 300 members daily. The two-story building, adorned with Christmas lights [continue reading…]

The smell of fresh coffee emits from the second floor of Circle of Hope, located on Frankford Avenue and Norris Street, as the Kensington Community Food Co-op (KCFC) sets up for their Tuesday market place. [continue reading…]

Within the next few years, the schoolyard at Horatio B. Hackett Elementary School will no longer be known as a sea of asphalt, but rather as an educational landmark filled with greens and opportunities the [continue reading…]

Mayfair Related to the German Population Before the Irish. Many people wrongfully believe Mayfair is traditionally an Irish-Catholic section of Philadelphia. In fact, the earliest traces of businesses across the neighborhood were made up of [continue reading…]

Sherman stormed down the 3500 block of Ryan Avenue as dusk was falling on Mayfair’s first ever Third Thursday festival. He reached the corner of Ryan and Leon streets, his head on a swivel. Who [continue reading…]

As Lorraine Cameron walked through her three-bedroom house in Germantown she recalled what she will miss most when she becomes homeless. Cameron, 54, has worked since she was 14. She has found herself without an [continue reading…]

For many years, notary frauds have been common occurrences in South Philadelphia’s immigrant community. However, recently more initiatives to help victims of “notario” fraud are developing in Philadelphia, which would create stronger ties between law [continue reading…]