North Philadelphia

There was one topic on everyone’s mind at a 24th Police District Police Service Area Three, which serves Port Richmond and Kensington, meeting on April 10. The proposal of the city’s first safe injection site.

“In Philadelphia, there’s gonna be reduced levels of poverty,” he said. “One of the vehicles to do that is the library system. But, you have to have libraries that have strong programming that would aid the community to move out of that low-income situation.”

Throughout his six years at the Cecil B. Moore Library at 23rd Street and Ridge Avenue, Sun Moon Bey, librarian and lead maker, has seen many changes, but none more gratifying than the successful revamp

Taki Leonard, a 16-year-old alumnus of the St. James School, an Episcopal middle school on Clearfield Street, manned the table at a pop-up sale in the second floor of Vault + Vine on Midvale Avenue.

Tonetta Graham grew up in Strawberry Mansion at a time, she says, when community and togetherness were emphasized in the neighborhood. She remembers scrubbing the white marble steps outside her home every Saturday, which she

One could say Mark Lavelle was born to coach. At age 15, before some kids even begin playing team sports, Lavelle was already coaching neighborhood kids in Kensington as a way to keep them away

The rock climbing wall inside the Cecil B. Moore Library at 23rd Street and Ridge Avenue is an atypical, but exciting, sight to see when first entering a library. After being shut down for two

An estimated 390,000 stray cats roam the streets of Philadelphia, and it’s Alley Cagnazzi’s job to make sure they are treated humanely. As lead community cat coordinator for the Animal Control and Care Team, one