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Manayunk-Roxborough: Residents Confront Perennial Problems With Parking And Traffic

September 16, 2019 Jared Johnson 7

On any given morning in Manayunk, traffic snakes up Green Lane, sometimes reaching 10 or more blocks from Main Street up to Manayunk Avenue and beyond. Commuters may spend a half hour or more waiting [continue reading…]

East Falls

East Falls: Community Organizations At Odds With Each Other

February 1, 2019 Lindsay Hargrave 1

East Falls, a 1.45 square mile neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia that is home to about 9,650 residents, is served by two registered community organizations: East Falls Community Council (EFCC) and East Falls Forward (EFF). It is also covered [continue reading…]

Manayunk

Roxborough: Schuylkill Center and NaturePHL Program Connect Residents to Local Green Spaces

January 25, 2019 Jared Johnson 0

On a chilly Saturday morning last December, parents and children gathered in the visitor center at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, located at 8480 Hagys Mill Rd. While they waited, the children explored the [continue reading…]

Manayunk

Roxborough: Schuylkill Center and NaturePHL Program Connect Residents to Local Green Spaces

December 14, 2018 Jared Johnson 0

On a chilly Saturday morning, Dec. 1, parents and children gathered in the visitor center at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, located at 8480 Hagys Mill Road. While they waited, the children explored the [continue reading…]

Manayunk

Manayunk: North Light Community Center Staff Offers Support Programs For Local Families

November 2, 2018 Jared Johnson 1

North Light Community Center, located at 175 Green Lane, just off Main Street, has been a consistent presence in the neighborhood for more than 80 years, offering child care, raising money for scholarships for local [continue reading…]

Business

Roxborough/Manayunk: Shifting Demographic Impacts Housing Market

October 22, 2018 Jared Johnson 0

Manayunk and Roxborough are changing as their populations continue to get younger. Both sections of the city have proved to be destinations for young people to live after they finish school, and more of them [continue reading…]

East Falls

East Falls: Votes, Traffic And Zoning Occupy Community Council

October 17, 2018 Lindsay Hargrave 0

Candidate’s Night at the East Falls Community Council meeting, a special meeting held each year before primary and general elections, was held at at the East Falls Presbyterian Church on Vaux Street on Oct. 8. [continue reading…]

Arts and Entertainment

East Falls: Laurel Hill Cemetery Hosts Public Performance Art

October 4, 2018 Lindsay Hargrave 0

On a crisp Friday afternoon in Laurel Hill cemetery, just before the gates were closed to the public, a different sort of burial took place. There was no casket, no flowers and no corpse. There [continue reading…]

Northwest Philadelphia

Roxborough: Older Residents Stay Active with Protest Organization

April 30, 2018 William Brown 0

The phrase “staying active” has taken on a new meaning for residents of the Cathedral Village Retirement Community in Roxborough and it’s political. The retirees formed the activists group Indivisible Village in January 2017 for residents there [continue reading…]

Elections

Roxborough: Combating the Issue of Overdevelopment

November 8, 2016 Patrick M Johnstone 0

Right now, at the corner of Henry Avenue and Maris Street, there sits an empty lot. But because of the by-right development, a new apartment building is in the works. Thanks to by-right, and much [continue reading…]

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