Tacony

https://vimeo.com/65466062] Short dumping is a problem all over the city and has been a problem for years, but in Holmesburg it seems to be an issue that is bringing down the community. Short dumping is

Tacony residents and business owners are trying to revitalize the Torresdale Avenue business corridor by implementing new projects in the community. The Historic Tacony Revitalization Project is a big community project headed by the Tacony Community

In a basement of a small apartment in Tacony, four mentally disabled adults were found chained to a boiler and locked behind a steel door in what Philadelphia police described the location as a “dungeon”

https://vimeo.com/25177572] “There’s a public neighborhood partnership in that the fire training room will double as a community room and will have public access,” he said. “We will be able to have neighborhood meetings there.” It

https://vimeo.com/22940188]   Millionaire’s Row. It’s not exactly something you’d associate with a cemetery. But then again, neither are Atlantic City and Tacony. At least, you wouldn’t by just looking at one of the biggest mausoleums

Two years after losing the community firehouse, groundbreaking for a new LEED Silver Certified Tacony firehouse is only a month away. The new Engine 38 firehouse, which has a proposed cost of $5.5 million, will

https://vimeo.com/22349952] About $10.6 million was funneled directly to the Mayfair Community Development Corp. since 2000, granted from the State Department of Community and Economic Development, according to its website. Much of it went into street

https://vimeo.com/19608080] “Ok, do a radio check,” said Paul Costello, president of the Tacony Town Watch to Sharon Weiseman, his partner for the night. Weiseman is the secretary of the Tacony Town Watch, responds and the pair start the