Renovation on the centerpiece of a Roxborough institution is underway and will result in the doubling of space provided for homeless and transitioning teenage mothers. Jessie Fox checks in on the progress at Merrick Hall on the campus of Northern Children’s Services

Photographer Jessie Fox found herself down below, in an abandoned subway station; here’s what she saw

A dozen years of planning and organizing produces Philadelphia’s first intentional skate park, which opened yesterday

The youth and neighborhood development project Urban Roots will help transform Ralph Brooks, Jr. Park, a place that has come to represent the neighborhood’s struggles with violence. Jessie Fox has the story and photographs

Jessie Fox spent more than a year photographing the neighborhood lately dubbed “Templetown.” Her photos, published for the first time here, document a rich vein of community life