History In West Poplar, A Reminder Of The Limits Of Small Scale Change With urban renewal at mid-flight in the 1960s, neighbors in lower North Philadelphia’s West Poplar banded together to build a park from the ground up. But, as Anna Goodman describes, without city assistance, it wasn’t built to last
Preservation Humming A New Tune At 13th & Mount Vernon Substation Old trolley substation turned auto body shop may turn multi-family housing. Brad Maule takes a look at the changes proposed at 13th & Mount Vernon
Photography The Metropolitan Opera House Revisited Eric Blumenfeld, who recently purchased the former Divine Lorraine hotel, is now talking about helping to restore the Metropolitan Opera House. We’ve got photos of the bedraggled North Broad Street beauty taken this summer, plus a few dug out from the archives of the 2009 Hidden City Festival
