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Kensington Residents Debate Quetcy Lozada’s Mobile Services Ban

On Wednesday night, Kensington residents gathered for a community meeting to discuss Councilmember Quetcy Lozada’s bill, which would ban mobile service providers from operating in residential areas and certain...

Philadelphia’s Most Expensive Neighborhoods in 2024

Philadelphia's real estate market in 2024 continued its upward trend, with housing prices reaching a two-year high despite persistent high interest rates.  According to Bright MLS data, the median home...

Philly won’t be getting a safe injection site anytime soon. Supporters of the cause think there’s plenty of blame to go around.

Despite Safehouse’s efforts to implement the country’s first safe injection site in Philadelphia, many members of the city’s pro-safe injection site community have told...

Interiorscape made by Portside Arts Center featured at Philadelphia Flower Show

The last thing Portside Arts Center’s founding director, Kim Creighton, expected was a call from the Philadelphia Flower Show. “They just called us out of...

A whirlwind week for supporters, opponents of safe injection sites

For a brief, roughly 24-hour period last week, Philadelphia was set to become the first city in the United States to open a safe...

Hearts on their sleeves

Joann Fithian, 61, has a long road to recovery, but she’s already talking about returning to her corner at Cedar and Allegheny in Port...

Rendell: Safehouse will have a safe injection site in Kensington “if all goes well”

A day after Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Gerald A. McHugh’s ruling that Safehouse’s “proposed operation is to reduce drug use, not facilitate it,”...

Fishtown neighbors green light two companion development proposals

Fishtown residents green-lighted two development projects planned for the corner of Oxford and Belgrade at Tuesday night’s FNA zoning meeting at the First Presbyterian...
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