Urbanism For Callowhill Neighborhood, Whose BIDing Will Be Done? Longtime Callowhill residents and real estate developers clash over the creation of a Business Improvement District as the neighborhood begins to transition. Kimberly Haas has the ...
History An Indelible Corner Of The Eraserhood The Shadow heads down to the corner of Ridge Avenue and 11th Street where an attractive wire and steel warehouse stands out like a diamond among broken ...
History Running Away With The Circus At 10th And Callowhill Harry K. takes us under the big top on Callowhill Street where acrobats, elephants, and clowns once charmed city ...
History Assuming Room Temperature At The City Morgue The Shadow gives us a stiff lesson on corpse storage and the history of Philadelphia's ...
Architecture Marked Potential: Northern Savings Fund Interior architect Shila Griffith brings SoHo art space sensibilities to the vacant, fortress-like Northern Savings Fund bank at 6th and Spring Garden with this month's Marked ...
History At 7th And Spring Garden, Confronting The Racism Of Poe Edgar Allen Poe's time in Philadelphia will forever be enshrined in masterful gothic tales and bouts of boozy mania. But the author's reputation as an anti-abolitionist? Contributor Max Marin visits Poe's old stomping grounds where ...
City Life Brewing With Solidarity At W/N W/N Coffee Bar A cooperative-run coffee and cocktail bar on Spring Garden Street goes deep for the W/N W/N. Joseph Brin has this story of building a business with ...
History A Rich Past And Possible Green Future For Spring Garden Street The Pennsylvania Environmental Council is hosting a block party this Saturday to highlight plans that would transform Spring Garden Street into a progressive urban greenway. Harry K. is optimistic and gives us the history of ...
