As Fishtown struggles to keep up with its growing reknown, developers have likewise tried to keep up with housing demand. Frankford Avenue alone looks drastically different than it did just five years ago, and on streets big and small throughout the neighborhood, new homes have sprouted like weeds. With the fourth and final installment of Fishtown Week, we survey the new housing that has grown—and continues to grow—the neighborhood

While demolitions have been plenty and new constructions have been many, Fishtown has an all-star list of old buildings breathing invigorated new life. Day 3 of Fishtown Week looks at the neighborhood’s best examples of adaptive reuse

With no end in sight to the real estate boom transforming neighborhoods across Philadelphia, perhaps no single neighborhood represents the recurring conflicts between development and historic preservation than Fishtown. Brad Maule launches a four-part series on the topic with this profile of the neighborhood’s properties on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places

Philadelphia’s only purpose-built Spiritualist church trades séances for office space at Frankford and Thompson. Michael Bixler reports.

At 2852 Frankford Avenue, a nice enough two-story building looks like it’d fit in early 20th Century small town Pennsylvania just as well as Kensington. Look a little closer to see the Native in a headdress—signifying the Improved Order of Red Men, the fraternal organization who built this object of The Shadow’s affection

On Sunday, one theoretical grocery store took a major step toward becoming a reality. Erin Bernard has the story of the Kensington Community Food Co-op’s forthcoming brick-and-mortar store

Flash fiction marathon? BiblioDiscotheque? Writer’s Night in America? Literary Mix Tape? The king of smut fiction? Yes, all that and more, including Hidden City co-editor Nathaniel Popkin and contributor Nic Esposito at the 215 Festival, which starts tonight

The time, it does fly. Johnny Brenda’s, a benchmark in the rebirth of Fishtown, turns 10 years old this week. Brad Maule, who’s spent a good bit of time hosting panels and hoisting pilsners during those years, looks into how JB’s has helped effect change in the neighborhood