Contributor Jared Brey takes us under the overpass and down in the trenches of the 95 Revive archeological excavation where field workers are piecing together centuries of lost Philadelphia history

DRWC and Hargreaves pulled the curtain on the first phase of designing a better, bolder Penn’s Landing last night. Brad Maule draws highlights in this report

With a public meeting tonight, the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation and Hargreaves Associates will reveal the first designs for the future of Penn’s Landing, including the completion of the I-95 cap between Walnut and Chestnut, planned development of the open spaces, and a new pedestrian bridge at South Street over Columbus Boulevard.

Harry K gives us the tortured history of the foot of Vine Street, from Front Street to the Delaware River, and how this spot of ground was so contested that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania had to get involved

Faced with major sources of mostly unmonitored air pollution, Port Richmond residents, empowered by the Clean Air Council, have taken to “citizen science,” monitoring for serious pollutants themselves. The aim, says new contributor Alex Vuocolo, is to create a more localized system for understanding hidden threats to public health

Turn Roosevelt Boulevard into a submerged expressway with a subway in the middle, argues veteran journalist and new resident of the Lower Northeast Sandy Smith

Harry K searches out traces of the old Quaker town, Callowhill, named for William Penn’s second wife

Police evicted Occupy Philly from Dilworth Plaza Tuesday night. Some of the homeless among them have pitched tents under I-95 in Port Richmond–to the dismay of local residents