…groups like Casino-Free Philadelphia, SugarHouse Casino worked with various community groups to create a community benefits agreement that will allot $500,000 back into the community through the Penn Treaty Special… [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/17930854 After James Logan’s death in 1751, his 500-acre estate was repeatedly cut up and sold off up until the mid-1900s. The farms and fields that stretched through North Philadelphia… [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/17930832 Many houses in Logan are in poor condition. On some streets boarded-up windows are as common as glass ones. Factories are abandoned, crumbling and filled with graffiti. Most of… [continue reading…]
…in the Muslim Student Association to promote understanding through community outreach. “I just feel that it’s really important for people to understand that the Muslim community is not homogeneous. There… [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/17930275 More than 60 local residents turned out for the vigil held out front of Glatz Jewelers on Rising Sun Avenue. A preacher is standing on a street corner in… [continue reading…]
[soundslide url=”https://smcsites.com/soundslides/uploads/fa1004strawberrymugshotsopening” height=550 width=600] Four white cups brimming with hot coffee sit precariously in a teetering cardboard beverage carrier perched on a customer’s forearm. She struggles to reach for the… [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18642666] Ogontz Avenue Shopping Plaza West Oak Lane is not immune to foreclosure despite a significant decrease in vacant homes. The West Oak Lane Community Development Corp. aids in the… [continue reading…]
[soundslide url=”https://smcsites.com/soundslides/uploads/fa1015_kensington_underthelslideshow/” height=550 width=600] Sixty-year-old Melvin Honesty was born and raised in Philadelphia and now calls the streets of Kensington his home. His usual hangout is below the neighborhood’s Market-Frankford… [continue reading…]
…potato pancakes. “It’s a way for everyone to come together and share in some culture and have some fun and come back to the neighborhood, because we’re always based out… [continue reading…]
…customers that normally would not come here.” Danciu added that her store sees rail commuters picking up flowers either on their way to or coming home from work. Lauren Killen… [continue reading…]
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