Hidden City’s Skid Row scholar Steve Metraux examines rigged polling in the 1950s and the flophouse vote

Steve Metraux takes a look at the “Canned Heat Wave” poisoning of 1963 that took the lives of 31 people on Skid Row. The public health scholar says the parallels between this tragic incident and Kensington’s opioid crisis is telling

In 1973, a battle ensued between a boozehound bar and the residents of Chinatown. The outcome would change the course of the neighborhood forever. Contributor Steve Metraux has the story

Public health scholar Steve Metraux exhumes the heart of Philadelphia’s Skid Row, buried under the Vine Street Expressway by the hands of urban renewal.

Callowhill Street is now a two-way from 2nd Street to Columbus Boulevard, changing the one-way east-heading regulation that has been in place since I-95 was built. Harry K connects the new ordinance with the salty history and sad ending of the surrounding neighborhood