History Skid Row Deaths Of 1963 Echoes Today’s Opioid Crisis Steve Metraux takes a look at the “Canned Heat Wave” poisoning of 1963 that took the lives of 31 people on Skid Row. The public health scholar says the parallels between this tragic incident and Kensington’s opioid crisis is telling
History The Barroom Brawl That Changed Chinatown In 1973, a battle ensued between a boozehound bar and the residents of Chinatown. The outcome would change the course of the neighborhood forever. Contributor Steve Metraux has the story
History Digging Up Vine Street In Search Of Old Skid Row Public health scholar Steve Metraux exhumes the heart of Philadelphia’s Skid Row, buried under the Vine Street Expressway by the hands of urban renewal.
