What’s life like under the El in Kensington? There are a million answers, and here are a few of them courtesy of three street photographers

The first decade of the 21st Century was harsh on West Philadelphia’s 60th Street. As the much-needed reconstruction of the 100-year-old Market-Frankford Line dragged on, businesses closed and people left. But now, a coalition of invested neighbors have high hopes for the corridor’s renaissance. Theresa Stigale meets with many of the people bringing 60th Street back to life in this photo essay

Last year, Hidden City asked who moved the Newkirk Viaduct Monument. And since then, we’ve learned that the 176-year-old sculpture might be incorporated into park plans for Bartram’s Mile—at its original site at the foot of the Grays Ferry Bridge over the Schuylkill River. Just upstream, an even older monument once commemorated the first bridge at Market Street. The Shadow looks into what ever happened to it

For the first time in decades, developers are building under the El. But how will they handle the many constraints–and the stigma of living “under the El?” Dan Shurley reviews a series of rather uneven new projects

A plantation house by the El on the 4400 block of Market Street in West Philadelphia? The Shadow, well he knows–and here’s the story

Yet another classic tower meets its inevitable demise…SIKE! GroJLart has the story of how Kensington’s Northeast Title and Trust Company Building, a.k.a. Flomar Building, staved off death and emerged anew as a community health center

Rachel Hildebrandt on the Haddington apartment building that pioneered the combined use of historic and low-income tax credits 20 years ago, which just received a new–and powerfully evocative–renovation by BWA Architecture and Planning

Debuting today, a new Daily video feature, with filmmaker Meredith Nutting, at the Spring Garden Station of the Market-Frankford El.