The city is full of youth athletic programs, but you’d be hard pressed to find one more diverse than the Kensington Soccer Club. The organization was created to provide instruction and outreach to children of the area’s growing immigrant population. Nic Esposito caught up with the club’s founders to discuss an observable shift in the neighborhood’s cultural dynamic through the lens of their sports program

Craft beer may flow in Philadelphia’s 21st century veins, but liquor manufacturing has a long, spirited history here. Nic Esposito gives a toast to the city’s past, present, and future of distilling

Close quarters, coworking, handmade furniture, and city government all converge inside One Parkway Building to form THE SUPERCUBE

With the Land Bank finally open for business, urban gardeners and farmers hope for legal protection against the City’s “Revoke Clause.” Hidden City contributor and Kensington farmer Nic Esposito digs deep into the issue

Drinking al fresco reached new heights this summer as brilliantly designed beer gardens popped up all over the city. This isn’t anything new though, says Nic Esposito. Philadelphia has been publicly drunk since 1671

Over a century since its founding on Dock Street, this legacy Philadelphia fruit importer is still expanding. Nic Esposito goes behind the facade for the story of banana king M. Levin and Company

At home in Kensington, Nic Esposito had put off addressing the water leak that was discoloring his wall. But when he finally did, he went literally behind the façade, and in the process became intimate with his home’s history. His column charts a course through the City Archives that any homeowner can use to navigate their own home’s story

As the push and pull of the ongoing land bank legislation trudges along, vacant mega-lots like those in Kensington have jumped to the top of the news cycle. But they’ve long inspired artists to dig beneath the grime to find their story. Nicolas Esposito talks with one such artist, Maria Möller, as her Hexamer Redux project uses the old Hexamer maps to resurvey Kensington’s post-industrial spaces