Queen Village resident David O’Donnell is on a mission to fill his neighborhood with verdant pocket parks. He shares his playbook on how to save slivers of green space with HC contributor Joe Brin

The Shadow stops by Penn’s Landing Post Office in Queen Village where a former produce market became an incubating space for playwrights and performers

Charged with the financial burden of a fire-damaged restaurant on South Street, owners of Bridget Foy’s make plans to rebuild. Starr Herr-Cardillo has the story

In Queen Village there’s a rare attempt to bridge community divides between affluent residents and tenants of an affordable housing complex through summer programs for neighborhood kids, support for public schools, and representation on the civic association. Is it working? Jake Blumgart checks in on the process of building a more inclusive Queen Village

The Fetfatzes family, owners of Bella Vista Beverage and the Bainbridge Street Barrel House, take pride in converting the former B’nai Reuben Synagogue—most recently the Antiquarian’s Delight—into apartments, “because of the history and culture it affords.” Now, in addition to the demolition of the congregation’s ceiling murals, they’ve removed just a little more of that history and culture, with the filing off of Jewish iconography on the building’s façade today

Sixteen years after the opening of Beau Monde, at Sixth and Bainbridge, the corner’s evolution is near complete. Joe Brin has the story

A chance realization leads to this meditation on neighborhood change by Nathaniel Popkin

One of Philly’s most exuberant buildings is just as–or maybe even more–colorful on the inside as it is on the outside. We take a look at both, plus the story behind the architecture