City Life My Favorite Place: Rare Book Department At FLP Join Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, and Grip the raven inside the Rare Book Department of the Free Library in the newest installment of My Favorite Place
City Life My Favorite Place: The Light Research Lab At Thomas Jefferson University In the early 20th century offices of 1015 Chestnut Street, experiments with light and space travel converge. Photonic researcher Ben Warfield leads us out of the abyss and into the sensory control pods of his favorite place
City Life My Favorite Place: Carman Garden Skating Rink Take a peek inside Carmen Gardens, where we’ll be celebrating the Hidden City Daily’s third anniversary this Friday, October 3rd
City Life My Favorite Place: Smith Memorial Playground It’s like a slide in your dreams, the 44-feet-long by 12-feet-wide slope of hard maple at Smith Memorial Playground that’s been around since 1905. Small wonder this remarkable place is someone’s favorite spot in town
City Life My Favorite Place: Eastern State Penitentiary Work in your favorite place? Sure, if your job’s at a historic prison in a state of fabulous decay. Director of Tours Fran Dolan takes us behind the scenes to some of Eastern State’s secret spots
City Life My Favorite Place: Imperfect Gallery Step into the heart of Germantown and see why Imperfect Gallery is Renny & Rocio’s favorite place, in this latest episode of Meredith Nutting’s video series
City Life My Favorite Place: Reading Terminal Market This month’s My Favorite Place takes us into what is certainly many, many Philadelphians’ true number one: the Reading Terminal Market. Meredith Nutting’s beautiful video with Elizabeth of Flying Monkey Bakery reminds us why–and even takes us somewhere new
City Life My Favorite Place: The Walnut Lane Bridge Take a look at this graceful span built over Wissahickon Creek in 1908 through the eyes of Germantown resident (and Clivedon Executive Director) David Young