History Unearthing A Lost Temple Mayor-Elect Jim Kenney came out recently against Temple University's wishes to build a stadium on-campus in North Philadelphia. The team has rented a field from the Philadelphia Eagles for nearly 40 years—after having one of ...
Preservation Endangered: Manayunk’s Historic Shawmont Station Historic? Yes, this one is. SEPTA's Shawmont Station, closed since 1996, is the oldest railway station in the U.S. It marked the birth of the single industry that would transform the city. Mike Szilagyi reports ...
History A Hundred Years At Callowhill Depot New York's Grand Central Terminal has marked its 100th birthday with a yearlong celebration. Here in Philadelphia, Mike Szilagyi writes, a lesser known but no less important transit facility, West Philly's Callowhill Depot, also celebrates ...
Urbanism Schuylkill River Trail: Shawmont–MontCo Open Again, Better Than Ever The Schuylkill River Trail is back in business between Shawmont and Montgomery County. Mike Szilagyi tells us how it got here—and where it's ...
Urbanism SEPTA Buses Not As Green As They’d Like You To Think SEPTA's recent sustainability award and it's advertising claims belie a bias against clean electric trolleys and electric trolleybuses, says writer Mike Szilagyi. Even hybrid diesel buses, he says, are hardly ...
Art & Design The Tenderloin Doughboy The soldier who stands at the corner of 2nd and Spring Garden is one of the only remaining public artifacts from Philadelphia's sin-soaked Tenderloin district. Mike Szilagyi looks at the history of the Tenderloin doughboy ...
Urbanism ThinkBike: Dutch Bike Planning Comes To Philly The key to urban bike safety is the use of parking lanes and collaboration with the police, say leading edge Dutch Bike planners, here to to explore the cycling possibilities. They'll present tonight in a ...
