Hunting Park is a neighborhood of diversity and change. It is one of the few working poor communities in the city, which means many residents are living on the edge of their means. A drive [continue reading…]
[soundslide url=”https://smcsites.com/soundslides/uploads/sp1117olneyhousingcrisis” height=550 width=600] Once again the economy has made a major impact on people’s lives. People are hurt and upset. Some residents of Olney are forced out of their homes because they cannot pay [continue reading…]
Francisville is filled with a rich history from William Penn, the Divine Lorraine Hotel and the Metropolitan Opera House, which is also referred to as the Met. Oscar Hammerstein brought this opera franchise to Broad [continue reading…]
It looks like a street that most people would rather drive by than walk down. With an empty lot filled with beer bottles and an assortment of trash on one side and slowly crumbling row [continue reading…]
You won’t just find hunting gear inside this Lodge. The new store located on Second and Girard brings a unique mix of modern and vintage fare to the area. The store resembles an old wooden lodge [continue reading…]
Every Saturday morning, the doors of the Lenfest PAL Center are opened to the kids of Hunting Park for City Year’s Young Heroes program. The middle school students who participate in this weekend day of [continue reading…]
Temple University senior Tabitha Mangum lives on Montgomery Avenue between Bouvier Street and 18th Street. Mangum is from Harrisburg and lives in the North Central Philadelphia neighborhood while she attends school. Mangum has had pleasant [continue reading…]
Operation Silence for Life is dedicated to getting its mission out to the public. Standing on Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, members of the Cardinal Newman Center on Temple’s main campus wore red [continue reading…]
Living in Fairhill was not something originally planned for Melissa Dunbar. Dunbar, a 36-year-old, single mother who was raised in Fairhill, never had the intention to remain a resident of the neighborhood. Despite working in [continue reading…]
When Lauren Cassady first saw the photos on Facebook, she was infuriated. A friend of hers from the East Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia had posted pictures of the side of a building with a large [continue reading…]
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