Jacob Downs explores the origins of the Market-Frankford Line and the El’s only surviving Beaux Arts station

Harry K. takes us on a tour of the city’s extensive pedestrian underground concourse network, soon to be rebranded by SEPTA as the “Downtown Link”

Eight years after being submitted, a nomination to legally protect Philadelphia’s ornate subway entrances with placement on the local register has been denied by the Historical Commission. Contributor Starr Herr-Cardillo has the story

Photographer Jeffrey Stockbridge captures the lives of Philadelphia’s opioid crisis in his new book, Kensington Blues. HC editor Michael Bixler has the review

The Shadow takes us to Front and Dauphin where the tragic downfall of a prosperous women’s apparel merchant is entombed in sneakers and stucco

In Frankford, the Roosevelt Theater faces the El like a careworn sentry guarding the legacy of the city’s last movie palaces. Shila Griffith invigorates the empty, ivory giant with a photography and filmmaking center for teens in this month’s Marked Potential

Under the El at Girard, a couple sets out to turn an historic bathhouse into a progressive playspace for children. Co-editor Michael Bixler reports