Ever wonder what happens to those plastic bottles and cardboard boxes after they leave your blue bin? Hidden City’s Michael Bixler ventures deep into Philadelphia’s curbside recycling machine in Grays Ferry

Grays Ferry and Northern Liberties are both two miles from City Hall and mirror each other in percentage of renters. Tracing the addresses of landlords in both areas, David Hilbert examines affluence and poverty through property owner distance and neighborhood investment

With the Land Bank finally open for business, urban gardeners and farmers hope for legal protection against the City’s “Revoke Clause.” Hidden City contributor and Kensington farmer Nic Esposito digs deep into the issue

The wrecking ball and the crane seem to be the symbols of the year as Philadelphia’s built landscape changes–in some places at a furious pace. Architect Andrew Evans has been paying attention–his time-lapse images capture the process as the new replaces the old

On the west side of South Philly, the 25th Street Elevated rail viaduct clearly defines it the boundaries of the Grays Ferry and Point Breeze neighborhoods. Over a dozen trains, including oil trains like the one that derailed over the Schuylkill River recently, rumble its weathering 86-year-old bones every day. Chris Dougherty goes back a century to find the Elevated’s origins in the heyday of the rail industry—and civic reform

Decades after its last active tenant cleared out—and 120 some years after its construction—Wharton Hall appears to have a new lease on life. GroJLart digs in at 26th & Wharton to find the story of this Grays Ferry building

Brad Maule joins Brad Peniston in dusting off a 175 year old public artwork that stands mysteriously next to a seriously active railroad trunk in Southwest Philadelphia

A major monument from the man who designed Girard College and the dome of the US Capitol stands jammed against the railroad tracks under a bridge in Southwest Philly. Brad Peniston wants to know why it’s not somewhere more noticeable