“Build beyond expectations.” That is the goal the Philadelphia Housing Authority’s Mobile Maintenance Crew hopes to reach every time they drive to Strawberry Mansion. They are union workers from Laborers Local Union 332 who have [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/29994883] “Do you want to live or do you want to die?” That’s the question Philadelphia CeaseFire, an anti-violence organization, asks all clients before they can seek help from the outreach program. CeaseFire is an organization [continue reading…]
Kids who attend L.P. Hill Elementary School rarely get to experience life outside of Strawberry Mansion. The main reason for this is the parents’ economic status. They simply cannot afford to take their children on [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/30060883] Education has been hit hard over the past year. Particularly here in Philadelphia with the recent budget cuts for education it’s been hard for public schools to maintain after-school programming. But with the help [continue reading…]
The Lenfest Center is one of two locations for the SquashSmarts program in Philadelphia. Driving down the 3800 block of 10th Street, one might not expect to see the massive building where the lives of [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/30003951] The melodic sounds of festive singing accompanying thumping rhythms of barriles drums poured out onto North Fifth Street late Sunday night. The sounds were emanating from the Instituto Puertorriqueno de Musica, or the Puerto [continue reading…]
Last Saturday afternoon, passers-by stopped along the Centro de Oro’s sun-drenched streets to admire jewelry, literature and Puerto Rican culture at the 25th Annual Book and Crafts Fair. Taller Puertorriqueno hosted the event at the [continue reading…]
Martha Turpin shuffled in and out of well-stocked grocery aisles, putting food she desired into her shopping basket: chicken broth, cheese crackers and frozen meat. It may sound like Turpin was at a suburban Superfresh, [continue reading…]
In the early 1950s, Strawberry Mansion native Henry Sly started doing hair in his mother’s basement near 25th and Gordon streets. Soon after, in 1954, the business got so big that his mother kicked him [continue reading…]
The Nicetown branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, which also serves Hunting Park, has been a place for kids in the surrounding community to come after school and work on their studies. While the [continue reading…]
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