History Skid Row Deaths Of 1963 Echoes Today’s Opioid Crisis 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
History Digging Up Vine Street In Search Of Old Skid Row 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.
Urbanism U.S. DOT Workshop Explores Capping And Connectivity On Vine Street The U.S. Department of Transportation held a two-day community forum on July 16 and 17 exploring design interventions for reimagining Vine Street. Stephen Stofka has the recap
