Hunting Park

The Philadelphia City Council recently passed a redistricting map late last year, leaving at least a dozen of the city’s 66 wards divided by two or more council districts, including wards within Hunting Park that’s [continue reading…]

Keeping an 87-acre park clean can be a laborious task. In Hunting Park, that job is left to Gerald Willis, an employee of Philadelphia’s Department of Parks and Recreation. Picking up the park’s trash for [continue reading…]

At Roberto Clemente Middle School in Hunting Park, 4 p.m. may be after school, but for the student members of the robotics club, it is the beginning of learning new and exciting technology. Every Tuesday [continue reading…]

https://vimeo.com/37225995] Around two decades ago, the factory on the corner of Fifth Street and Bristol Avenue used to make envelopes. Not exactly the first place you’d expect to go for a college education. Esperanza College [continue reading…]

https://vimeo.com/37129487] A lot has changed since John B. Stetson Middle School, a mostly Latino school in Hunting Park, changed from being run by the Philadelphia School District to its current charter organization, ASPIRA PA, said [continue reading…]

https://vimeo.com/37143045] For years, Hunting Park United has worked hard to restore Hunting Park and the surrounding community to its former glory. Before the park became a breeding ground for drugs and crime, it was a [continue reading…]

ASPIRA PA, the Hunting Park-based charter school nonprofit, is hoping its discipline-focused school expands out of the state and down the east coast to other cities. Started at Stetson B. Middle School two years ago, [continue reading…]

The majority of Hunting Park’s residents are middle-to-low-income families with the median salary sitting around $22,000. Amid a slowly recovering economy and already low earnings, families do what they can to accumulate extra funds in [continue reading…]