Working from home may only be a daydream for some, but that dream is coming true for more and more employees of local businesses, according to a survey done by Microsoft and Ipsos Public Affairs [continue reading…]
At around 10:45 a.m. today a motorcyclist was severely injured from a collision with a vehicle at the intersection of North Second Street and Wyoming Avenue, officials said. Rivera Walters, 24, was driving west on [continue reading…]
Police officers have the toughest job in the city. I’ve had the opportunity to work with officers in a variety of places and found that there are some important facts: –Many officers don’t think much [continue reading…]
Thirty Northeast Philadelphia neighbors crowded into a classroom yesterday evening in the Max Myers Recreation Center with one mission: to get their neighborhood back. “Take Back Your Neighborhood” is a grassroots organization started by Jared [continue reading…]
Hanging from one of the cabinets of Predictive Edge CEO Bill Campbell’s desk is a piece of paper that reads, “Parenting Problems? Who You Going To Call?” Under the text are two pictures. The first [continue reading…]
Trash is an issue every community has to deal with. Whether it be where to put it, how to get rid of it or who is in charge of it, there is plenty of room [continue reading…]
The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Wyoming Branch was ironically anything but quiet. From the outside, it was possible to hear loud upbeat music coming from the basement, only making neighbors curious to see what the [continue reading…]
Painter and printmaker Robert Finch has been creating art in Germantown for over 50 years. While he and his wife Sue moved to the Main Line for a period of time, Finch said that it [continue reading…]
When Jim Kim decided to open a business, he thought going into the restaurant industry was the perfect fit. After managing a restaurant in West Philadelphia for a few years with a few friends, the [continue reading…]
Tired of both the problems confronting black males in Philadelphia and the problems caused by some black males Bilal Qayyum decided to do more to make a positive change. In 1989 Qayyum founded the Father’s [continue reading…]
© 2025 All Rights Reserved. Philadelphia Neighborhoods: A program of the Department of Journalism at the Lew Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University.