Tioga

The Nicetown/Tioga area is going through a period of renovation. Old decrepit houses are being rebuilt into new homes and the area itself is being cleaned up. By doing this, the city and investors hope

[soundslide url=”https://smcsites.com/soundslides/uploads/sp1112tiogahousingsoundslide/” height=550 width=600] Abandoned homes, vacant lots and crumbling structures have not always been how the Nicetown/Tioga area was decorated. Believe it or not, this community used to host several booming businesses and the

The Philadelphia Senior Center Tioga Branch has been serving and housing community seniors for the past 38 years.  It is located at 1531 W. Tioga St.  The center was previously housed at Broad Street and

https://vimeo.com/18011949] A middle-aged man – he says he’s 40 – sits at the corner of Broad Street and Erie Avenue. He wears a black-and-gold fitted Los Angeles Lakers cap and a black T-shirt patterned with

When Diona Mininall first became involved with the Nicetown Community Development Corp., she had fallen on some hard times herself, and through organization’s Affordable Housing program, Mininall was able to buy her own home. Then,

Erik Michael Younge, 57, is a political activist who, in his youth, was a participant “on a small scale,” in the civil rights movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Born in San Francisco,

The first floor of the Nicetown-Tioga Library looks like any other library. Books are sprawled across the layout of the interior, conversations are kept to a mere whisper and “no cell phones” and “no talking” signs are posted along the walls. Upstairs is a completely different story. Sunshine spills into the large, white room where kids are partaking in an intense game of Dance Dance Revolution. A radio is blaring in the background and a group of kids are nosily playing cards in the far end of the room.

https://vimeo.com/18011720] During the hot, sunny days of summer in Nicetown-Tioga, Gregory Broughten starts selling water ice outside his home between 11 a.m. and noon each day. Broughten, 57, has lived in the house on the