Philadelphia Neighborhoods logo
  • Neighborhoods
    • Center City
    • North Philadelphia
    • Northeast Philadelphia
    • Northwest Philadelphia
    • River Wards
    • South Philadelphia
    • Southwest Philadelphia
    • West Philadelphia
  • Topics
    • Amateur Sports
    • Arts and Entertainment
    • Business
    • City Hall
    • Community Meetings
    • Crime
    • Economy
    • Education
    • Elections
    • Environment
    • Fashion
    • Food
    • Government
    • Health
    • History
    • Housing
    • How To
    • Immigration
    • LGBTQ
    • Mental Health
    • Music
    • Police
    • Politics
    • Poverty
    • Property
    • Religion
    • Science
    • Social Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Technology
    • Transportation
    • Veterans’ Affairs
    • Zoning
  • Special Reports
    • North Philadelphia: Can the Next Crimes be Prevented?
    • Recent Special Reports
      • COVID-19 Reporting
      • City Hall, Fall 2019
      • Special Report Podcast: Mental Health
      • Klein Fellowship- Immigration
      • Klein Fellowship- Income Inequality
    • All Special Reports
  • Latino Communities
  • Philadelphia Neighborhoods Map
  • About Philadelphia Neighborhoods
  • Awards
  • Our Code of Ethics & Guiding Principles
  • News Orgs: Want To Use Our Stories?
  • Tips/Contact
HomeSouth Philadelphia

South Philadelphia

Education

Education: Looking at What’s Next for Five Closed High Schools in Philadelphia

February 25, 2016 Matthew R Mcgraw

Education is one of the foundations of society, and yet schools in Philadelphia are hemorrhaging cash due to rising costs and stagnant revenues. Many have been forced to cut back on everything from school supplies

Immigration

Immigration: Q&A with Bethany Welch, Director of the Aquinas Center

February 1, 2016 Erin Justine Edinger-Turoff

Bethany Welch (shown above) is the founding director the St. Thomas Aquinas Center, an organization affiliated with the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church at 17th and Morris streets in South Philadelphia. The organization was created

Education

South Philadelphia: Children’s Hospital And City Combine For A ‘First-Of-Its-Kind’ Community Health And Literacy Center

January 8, 2016 Julianne Rose Spingler

In 2012 plans for a large, conglomerate project between the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the City of Philadelphia started to take shape after the realization that the needs of city residents were outgrowing provided

Featured Stories

South Philadelphia: Mummers Aim for More Diversity at This Year’s Parade

December 28, 2015 Thomas F Beck

The Philadelphia Mummers Parade, which was first officially recognized by the city of Philadelphia on New Year’s Day of 1901, has long been one of the city’s most beloved cultural idiosyncrasies – but also one

Abandoned Property

Amateur Sports: Nonprofits Help Homeless Beyond Athletics

December 18, 2015 Stephen T Godwin

Street Soccer USA On any given night in the United States, there are approximately 564,708 people who are counted as homeless. On any given night in this country, there are also 39,907 unaccompanied youth between

Amateur Sports

Amateur Sports: Philadelphia Catholic League Still Flourishing Today Despite Modern Changes

December 16, 2015 pnadmin

The Philadelphia Catholic League has long been recognized as one of the better basketball leagues in the state of Pennsylvania, let alone in the country. Former Philadelphia Inquirer high school writer and statistician Ted Silary

Amateur Sports

South Philadelphia: Neumann-Goretti Basketball Coach Carl Arrigale Continues His Historic Run

December 14, 2015 pnadmin

Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti Catholic High School has been head coach Carl Arrigale’s only high school basketball home during the time he’s been involved with the sport. “Neumann is the only place I’ve ever

Arts and Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment: “This Is The Week That Is” Aims To Deliver Classic Political Satire to Philadelphia This Holiday Season

December 9, 2015 pnadmin

There are very few political discussions that imagine Star Wars characters as Syrian refugees or compare Donald Trump to Jabba The Hutt. However, at 1812 Productions’ administrative office located in the Whitman section of South

Business

Point Breeze: New Restaurants Signal Changes in Neighborhood

December 9, 2015 pnadmin

In 2015, Point Breeze has witnessed a seasonal pop-up beer garden and a bistro opening in the neighborhood where change is no longer just in housing development. As a neighborhood gentrifies, businesses follow suit. The Point Breeze

Bella Vista

Queen Village: Community Gardeners Prepare for Winter

December 8, 2015 Danielle S. Nelson

As the temperatures dropped, local gardeners came out in droves to clean up their community garden before hanging up their racks, hoses, pruners and shovels for the season. The Southwark Queen Village Community Garden hosted

Posts pagination

« 1 … 6 7 8 … 22 »

Recent Posts

  • These Philly High Schoolers Are Taking Journalism Into Their Own Hands
    January 23, 2026
  • How Community Gardens are Fighting Erasure and Displacement in North Philadelphia 
    January 16, 2026
  • Healing from Gun Violence: A Conversation With Mary Felder
    January 15, 2026
  • With Changes to SNAP Looming, South Philly Mosque Pledges to Continue Food Distribution for All
    January 3, 2026
  • The Light We Hold: Inside a Philly Community Gathering of Art and Grief
    December 27, 2025
Philadelphia Neighborhoods Student Reporters
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS

© 2026 All Rights Reserved. Philadelphia Neighborhoods: A program of the Department of Journalism at the Lew Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University.