Trash accumulating on the streets of East Falls is becoming a problem, some residents maintain. Walking along the streets of East Falls, residents see piles of trash along fence lines and around drainage grates. One [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/37278006] The presence of the East Falls Tree Tenders can be felt all over the community, as they have planted nearly 1,000 trees on streets, alleys and well-known public places such as Laurel Hill Cemetery [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/36744627] For Nikolaj Christensen, the manager of East Falls Glassworks, glassblowing wasn’t always his career path. While finishing his senior year at Washington University in St. Louis Mo., a friend suggested they take a glassblowing [continue reading…]
While the walls of books are characteristic of a typical institution of learning, the Falls of Schuylkill Library is far from commonplace. Laughter and conversations frequently reverberate off the walls of the nearly 100-year-old building. [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/32556577] At the gateway of East Falls on Ridge Avenue, surrounded by a chain-link fence, lays a large empty lot known as “The Rivage.” Gina Snyder, the executive director of the East Falls Development Corp., [continue reading…]
The Philadelphia Police’s 39th District hosted a neighborhood meeting Monday night to discuss safety and security due to a recent string of robberies in the district, which includes part of East Falls. About fifteen citizens [continue reading…]
The Trolley Car Cafe is celebrating an anniversary on Wednesday, its first since moving into an old Fairmount Park pool house in East Falls. The cafe, founded as an offshoot of the Trolley Car Diner [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/22939618] What would you do if you weren’t able to find where your daughter had been buried the other day because the rain had erased all of the marks of a new grave? The [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/22940188] Millionaire’s Row. It’s not exactly something you’d associate with a cemetery. But then again, neither are Atlantic City and Tacony. At least, you wouldn’t by just looking at one of the biggest mausoleums [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/22242769] For much of his life, 15-year-old Timothy Brooks was stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time. It wasn’t until he joined the Second Serve Program at the Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and [continue reading…]
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