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The Fishtown Recreation Center represents how a community can be sustained not only through cleanup efforts, but through the ongoing commitment from community members across multiple generations. This 1.4-acre facility welcomes new members to utilize

In Fishtown, art and creativity extend beyond the canvas. Volunteers are painting the local community center, making it an inviting place that everyone can enjoy. Fishtown Recreation Center, located at 1202 East Montgomery Avenue, is

Sustainability never ends. It pervades into multiple areas of Philadelphia life. These five individuals show the innovative ways in which sustainability is growing throughout the city. Angie Vitale, Artist Angie Vitale is a Philadelphia artist

The numerous immigrants that call Point Breeze home brought with them more than their own languages and customs when they settled here: they brought their food. Flavors from Southeast Asia and south of the border

Everyone loves a freshly-manicured lawn. Cutting it, however, can be problematic if you live in Greater Grays Ferry Estates. Neighbors are pitted against one another in a dispute over who should cut the grass in

Point Breeze homes don’t typically come with yards. An unbroken line of rowhouse after rowhouse is the dominant motif for several blocks on end, going up and down the compact neighborhood wedged just south of

Located in Center City, the nonprofit organization MANNA (Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance) prepares, cooks and serves roughly 4,000 nutritious meals daily to people who suffer from severe and life-threatening illnesses in Philadelphia and parts

In a small and stuffy locker room at the Laura Sims Skate House, kids scramble to dissemble their hockey gear. They are loud and exhausted as they just stepped off the ice from a long