At Eastern State Penitentiary, layers of history reveal more mysteries inside a famous gangster’s old prison cell. Kimberly Haas has the details

Eastern State Penitentiary takes an innovative approach to contemporary prison issues and public education with their new exhibit, “Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration”

The former First Presbyterian Church of the Northern Liberties knows the business of conversion. This low-key brick structure built in the early 1800’s on Fairmount Avenue spent decades as a theater, a hall for German singing societies, a Polish community house, and now lives out its days as a children’s learning center. The Shadow tallies up the building’s long list of reuse

Elusive real estate partners and scant details of a large-scale proposal for residential development and a supermarket on the 1300 block of Fairmount Avenue raises more questions than answers. Contributor Stephen Stofka takes a look

1930s-era Art Deco auto showroom at 15th and Fairmount Avenue is bound for the Philadelphia Register after Historical Commission approves nomination

Eastern State Penitentiary kicks off its annual toy drive for children of parents behind bars

With urban renewal at mid-flight in the 1960s, neighbors in lower North Philadelphia’s West Poplar banded together to build a park from the ground up. But, as Anna Goodman describes, without city assistance, it wasn’t built to last

Sustainable mixed-use project at Broad and Ridge to offer 53 affordable units, retail, and office space–and great views of the monument across the street