Fishtown

As Fishtown continues to grow on a daily basis, businesses young and old are finding themselves becoming  jaunts for neighbors near and far. The businesses featured below are at a cross-section between the ever-incoming flux

As part of the Community Benefits Agreement with SugarHouse Casino, the Penn Treaty Special Services District has received $500,000 per year from SugarHouse since opening in 2010. Once SugarHouse’s second phase is finished, presumably bringing

While the gaming license process is often presented as an us-versus-them scenario pitting the big bad casinos against potential neighbors who want no part of said casinos, the reality is much more nuanced than that.

On the bright sunny day of the 3rd Annual Fishtown Fishing Derby, AJ Thompson, president of the Friends of Penn Treaty Park, ran around the park, handing out fishing poles to kids who didn’t have

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

During the last year of her undergraduate career at Tyler School of Art, Kate Speidel imagined her own artist’s space as an idea for a class assignment to compose a grant. “It was a very

https://vimeo.com/91627549] A long time ago, Warren Muller heard something strange coming from the street outside his Philadelphia apartment. “I used to hear this man calling his dog outside of my apartment and he would keep