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With Churches Fast Disappearing In Fishtown, A Chance To See What’s At Stake
Preservation

With Churches Fast Disappearing In Fishtown, A Chance To See What’s At Stake

What to do with all the churches? With the imminent loss of another Fishtown church, New Kensington Community Development Corporation wants you to see what’s at stake–join them for a post-holiday tour. Michael Bixler reports

In East Kensington, Housing Development To Replace Little Berlin’s “Fairgrounds”
Art & Design

In East Kensington, Housing Development To Replace Little Berlin’s “Fairgrounds”

Viking Mills owner selling lot that artists collective has activated for the past four years. Emma Jacobs reports on what’s coming and why

Truck Into The Fire
History

Truck Into The Fire

The Philly History Truck steps—err, drives—into action this evening with the opening of Manufacturing Fire, the first exhibition to come about from the truck’s creative community process.

Last Gasp For Two Historic Banks In Kensington?
Preservation

Last Gasp For Two Historic Banks In Kensington?

Two adjacent banks built in Kensington in the 1880s are threatened with demolition. Christopher Mote has the story of the state tax credits that might make that happen

A Little Magic At The EverNever Night Market
Art & Design

A Little Magic At The EverNever Night Market

A pop-up interactive art show on a vacant lot in Kensington–“the greatest underground art carnival you’ll ever see”

Two Historic Kensington Bank Buildings Get Short End of Zoning Board Decision
Preservation

Two Historic Kensington Bank Buildings Get Short End of Zoning Board Decision

The ZBA approves the Women’s Community Revitalization Project’s plan for 25 units of low-income housing at the long-disputed site under the El. Preservationists and community groups in Fishtown and Kensington are opposed to the project

This Could Be A Park
Urbanism

This Could Be A Park

East York and Emerald, in Kensington, a neighborhood plagued by massive vacant lots–all former mills–and yet no public green space


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