Joe Anderson had always dreamed of owning a home, and in 2010 his dream came true with the purchase of a Kensington rowhouse. Then the nightmare started. At a neighbor’s house, a resident’s boyfriend returned from prison bringing a…
Evan M. Lopez From 1958 to ’67, Reeves grew up in Liddonfield, the housing project that’s now a vast, empty field on the edge of Upper Holmesburg. She blogs about the bad old days at publichousingstories.com. City Paper: What’s it…
It seemed an impossible cruelty that less than two years after Adam Goldstein, aka DJ AM, died in a drug overdose, his adoptive sister, Lara Long, was claimed by cancer. With a blaze of red hair and a laugh you…
As City Paper reported back in 2010, Tracey Gordon‘s victory celebration for winning the seat of committee person in South Philadelphia’s 40th Ward was short-lived. Gordon, who won despite the best efforts of the Democratic City Committee to stop her,…
You may not think it now, but Spring Garden Street, with its four lanes of rushing traffic, may have the potential to become one of Philadelphia’s most inviting boulevards. At least, that’s the theory behind the planned Spring Garden Greenway,…
Evan M. Lopez [ zoning ] Historic and leafy, Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill may look like any other public street. But in reality, much of it is owned by one company, Bowman Properties and in turn controlled by…
A packed agenda on today’s Philadelphia City Planning Commission meeting includes large-scale and controversial items aplenty. Among them: Toll Bros. proposal for a massive gated community of condos and townhouses on the 2400 block of South Street; remapping an area…
A series on under-the-radar stories worth reading. The Philadelphia Public Record has an odd story on an attempt to steal Bo De Buddhist Temple at 13th and Washington right out from under its 150 worshipers. A former member reportedly transferred…
The Delaware River Waterfront Corp. (DRWC) is sending its master plan for the Delaware River waterfront on to the Philadelphia City Planning m to be hopefully incorporated into Philly’s new zoning code. Neighborhood groups are cheering, but James Anderson, the…
Evan M. Lopez Sick of the illegal signage cluttering Philly streets, Christopher Sawyer just launched BanditProject.org to track so-called bandit signs. City Paper: Why launch this site? Christopher Sawyer: If we take a sign down, it goes right back up.…
