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Arts and Entertainment

Northeast: Tacony and Holmesburg Seeking Revitalization with Business and History

May 9, 2013 0

[vimeo 65465622] Tacony and Holmesburg are neighboring communities that are seeking a better future for their residents. Their missions are similar but their focuses are different. Tacony is taking a business first approach while Holmesburg is [continue reading…]

Environment

Northeast: Dumping and Graffiti Create Problems

May 9, 2013 0

https://vimeo.com/65466062] Short dumping is a problem all over the city and has been a problem for years, but in Holmesburg it seems to be an issue that is bringing down the community. Short dumping is [continue reading…]

Social Issues

Northeast: Tacony Improvements Continue with Shopping, Clean-up Projects

April 17, 2013 0

Tacony residents and business owners are trying to revitalize the Torresdale Avenue business corridor by implementing new projects in the community. The Historic Tacony Revitalization Project is a big community project headed by the Tacony Community [continue reading…]

Arts and Entertainment

Northeast: Live Arts Festival Reveals Philadelphia’s Mysteries

September 20, 2012 0

https://vimeo.com/49861710] Andrew Simonet found himself wondering who lives in the houses of Philadelphia and what stories are beyond those walls. “To be surrounded by so many people and to know so few of them is [continue reading…]

A Special Report on John Perzel

Northeast Philadelphia: The Future of the 172nd District

June 19, 2012 0

https://vimeo.com/44167243] The image of the Northeast existing as a stepchild section of Philadelphia is an image that Mayfair Civic Association president Joe DeFelice said his neighborhood aimed to defy. That image and initiatives for the [continue reading…]

Crime

Tacony: ‘Dungeon’ Kidnapping Case Spirals into ‘Tangled Web of Horror’

October 20, 2011 1

In a basement of a small apartment in Tacony, four mentally disabled adults were found chained to a boiler and locked behind a steel door in what Philadelphia police described the location as a “dungeon” [continue reading…]

Northeast Philadelphia

Northeast Philadelphia: Breaking Ground for New Firehouse in Tacony

June 16, 2011 0

https://vimeo.com/25177572] “There’s a public neighborhood partnership in that the fire training room will double as a community room and will have public access,” he said. “We will be able to have neighborhood meetings there.” It [continue reading…]

Northeast Philadelphia

Tacony: A Green Building for the Fire Department

April 11, 2011 0

Two years after losing the community firehouse, groundbreaking for a new LEED Silver Certified Tacony firehouse is only a month away. The new Engine 38 firehouse, which has a proposed cost of $5.5 million, will [continue reading…]

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