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Researcher works with ghosts of history to save Lower Dublin Academy
- Tuesday, September 6, 2016
- By Alan Jaffe
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- 3322 Willits Road, Philadelphia PA
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A Revolutionary-era schoolhouse in an unexpected location has been nominated to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places by an unlikely researcher. Lower Dublin Academy, built in 1803, is surrounded by an…
Frankford Avenue prostitution a problem for many neighborhoods
- Friday, December 14, 2012
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Fourteen years ago, Joe Nicoletti made the decision to come back to his roots in Tacony where family settled in the 1890s from Italy. Nicoletti wanted to start a family with…
Point Breeze eminent domain passes | Furness's industrial flourishes, caricatures | Convent housing conversion | Blatstein sued | $37m funding restored to agencies, programs
- Friday, November 30, 2012
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Happy Friday, Streeters. Here’s what’s making news today. The bill authorizing the city to use eminent domain on 17 vacant properties in Point Breeze passed City Council unanimously on Thursday,…
Pennypack Creek Bridge gets historical recognition at last [video]
- Thursday, October 18, 2012
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More than 200 years ago, soldiers of the Continental Army marched across the Pennypack Creek Bridge toward a monumental victory in Yorktown during the Revolutionary War. Saturday, neighbors marched across that…
Pennypack Park cleanup inventory: 14 types of balls, 4 kinds of flip flops, a gas canister, part of a shopping cart and more
- Friday, September 28, 2012
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What do a shopping cart, a blue comb, four car tires without rims, two baby dolls, and a frisbee have in common? They're all on a bizarre list of "other" things…
Prison costs, crowding strain Philly resources
- Tuesday, September 18, 2012
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Philadelphia spends more on prisons -- $231 million last budget year -- than it does on libraries, parks, City Council, the district attorney's office, the board of ethics, and licenses and…
At first civic meeting of the season, a preview of what's to come in Homesburg
- Wednesday, September 12, 2012
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Cars lined two full blocks of Ditman Street on either side Tuesday night. Children and their parents made use of the playground out the rec center as the Holmesburg Boys Club's…
How to have a wedding at the Pennypack Park gazebo
- Friday, August 17, 2012
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Pennypack Park has many beautiful features, but the gazebo on the Delaware River in Upper Holmesburg really stands out. It's no wonder Bridesburg resident Donna Ludwig wants to help her daughter and…
Help Desk: Pennypack on the Delaware as a wedding venue?
- Friday, August 17, 2012
- By Ashley Hahn
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Today Eyes on the Street's Help Desk takes on a new kind of planning question: wedding planning. Donna Ludwig is helping daughter Danielle and her fiancé Nick plan their wedding. The…
Right NEast/Wrong NEast: Mayfair gets credit for Tacony's cool sign
- Wednesday, August 15, 2012
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Updated: A reader has called to our attention the Mayfair neighborhood banner hanging in front of Stein's in the photo used for the Naked Philly story. We can't fault them for…
After the flood South of South | Assumption lawsuits continue | Lower Northeast plan update | Liddonfield site to Holy Family | illegal work at Knights of Pythias Greenwood Cemetery
- Monday, July 23, 2012
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After a water main broke at 21st and Bainbridge Sunday night, the Fire Department helped evacuate residents via boat. | Rob Lybeck, Eyes on the Street Flickr groupIf you’re a…
Lawmakers: PHA picks Holy Family to develop Liddonfield site
- Friday, July 20, 2012
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State Sen. Mike Stack, state Rep. Mike McGeehan and City Councilman Bobby Henon applauded PHA’s decision today to select Holy Family University’s development plan Upper Holmesburg's Liddonfield property, according to…
New name for Fairmount Park Art Association | construction at Police Academy | Fumo and tax relief | zombie graduates | $15m to Philadelphia U
- Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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The Fairmount Park Art Association has changed its name for the first time since 1872. Now it’s the Association for Public Art (aPA is how they want it abbreviated), a name…
New tactical training facility at Police Academy
- Tuesday, May 8, 2012
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Ground was broken yesterday at a new tactical training facility at the Philadelphia Police Academy at 8501 State Rd. in Upper Holmesburg. The new building will combine the department's SWAT,…
No decision yet on who will redevelop PHA's Liddonfield property [video]
- Friday, April 20, 2012
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Upper Holmesburg Civic Association President Stan Cywinski breaks the news to members that the Philadelphia Housing Authority has not settled on development plans for Liddonfield. Photo/Shannon McDonaldUpper Holmesburg residents holding…
LED traffic light savings | strengthening East Falls through school closing | South Street West's boom | PHA mum about Liddonfield | Inky wins Pulitzer | weird 2012 weather
- Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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Thanks to LED traffic lights, the city anticipates saving $1 million annually, NewsWorks reports. Streets Commissioner Clarena Tolson estimates that the city is saving 70% on its electricity costs for…
PHA considers Liddonfield proposals
- Monday, April 16, 2012
- By Jared Brey
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- Torresdale Drive
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Late last year, the Philadelphia Housing Authority issued a Request for Proposals for the redevelopment of the 32-acre site of the former Liddonfield Housing Project in the Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood of…
$25,000 judgment in suit against Philly over permitted gun
- Monday, March 12, 2012
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Photo courtesy of Mark Fiorino A gun-toting Lansdale man has received a $25,000 judgment in his lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia. The information technology worker says he was tired of…
Stokes House changes hands, redevelopment or restoration possible
- Monday, March 5, 2012
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The Stokes House, a 19th century stone farmhouse in Holme Circle, offers a rare peek into the area's more rural past, standing alone among the neighborhood's mid-century houses. Over the years, the Stokes…
As city focuses on waterfront revival, conversation turns toward I-95
- Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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Flickr Photo/tom_allen Interstate 95 is a much-used highway in Philadelphia. It also happens to separate parts of neighborhoods like Wissinoming, Tacony, Holmesburg, Upper Holmesburg and Torresdale from the Delaware River waterfront.…
