South Street

A section of one of the busiest highways on the East Coast is getting a new look along a stretch of roadway in Philadelphia. Construction of a new pedestrian park above Interstate I-95 near Penn’s Landing is underway. [continue reading…]

Tattooed Mom, a neighborhood bar, doubles as a community meeting space. [continue reading…]

Holden Ohl grew up immersed in nature. His hometown of Narrowsburg, New York, has a 12,000-acre nature reserve and a 10-mile-wide Boy Scout camp. There were forests, rivers, and trails to discover and roam, making [continue reading…]

Beyond its popular and busy live music scene, Philadelphia has a number of small labels and record stores that stand behind heavy metal artists. These labels help to build artists, local and otherwise, from inside [continue reading…]

South Street, which serves as the northern border for Queen Village, Hawthorne and Bella Vista, is an urban melting pot. Located just southeast of Center City, the corridor has a unique edge and several can’t-miss [continue reading…]

A community is only as good as its people allow it to be, and the folks living west of Broad on South Street have taken this notion to heart. Both the South of South Neighborhood [continue reading…]

It all started because there were too many garages in Queen Village. According to the co-chair of the Queen Village Neighbors Association zoning committee, Michael Hauptman, it was around 2006 or 2007 when the neighborhood started [continue reading…]

“I’m one of those types that if you implant an idea in my brain, I can’t get rid of it,” said Christina Saboe, owner of Fireside Camp Supply located on South Street. Her two-year-old camping [continue reading…]