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Germantown is one of the best-preserved historical areas in the greater Philadelphia area. Home to 14 different historical sites, as well as one of the landmarks of Revolutionary War battles, walking around …

The detours on Germantown Avenue are unavoidable. All main street corners are decorated with stacked signs warning about construction, cars are forced off of the main road, and sidewalks lined with barriers.

“My father walks with a cane and I have a 4-month-old baby,” lamented Lashonda Copeland as she maneuvered a stroller around Germantown Avenue. and Ashmead …

It’s a warm sunny day at Vernon Park in Germantown. Moms bring babies out in strollers to get some fresh air. But it doesn’t take long for wrappers and bottles to get caught in those stroller wheels. It’s obvious Vernon Park, like many other areas in Germantown, has a litter problem. The residents whose everyday lives this litter affects have a lot to say on the topic, both of the city and of themselves.
“I think it’s a nice park, but the city needs to get out here and clean it up,” says Felicia Thomas, a Germantown …

It’s cleaning day in the Wilson-Heard home on Wagner Avenue. The father is using the vacuum upstairs, as 7-year-old Bryant runs down the stairs of the well-kept row home. “Mommy, can I pour my own cereal for breakfast?”
They are the sounds that can be heard within any typical home on a Sunday morning, but sadly, they are sounds that could be short lived in this house.
“There’s a lot of stress in my life these days and to maybe be losing our home,” Cindy Wilson-Heard says. “It’s hard …

Marie Tedesco looks at the impact of abandoned houses in Fairhill. View the photographs and listen to the residents’ comments about the problem.

Imagine, for a moment, you are back in elementary school. You are the kid who is always being bullied around and picked on. Perhaps you were. You know what it feels like, and it isn’t a good feeling.
The people of the Fishtown community in Philadelphia could make a case for being bullied. The only problem with this particular case of bullying is that no …

Every big city has its neighborhoods to avoid after the sun sets, but in Philadelphia, our problem can be seen everywhere and they cannot be avoided. The difference between a city such as Washington, D.C., and North Philadelphia is that in Washington, the slums are only seen from a distance. But in Philadelphia our badlands are an eyeshot away.
Scattered throughout Philadelphia, yet more prevalent in some areas, abandoned buildings, warehouses and homes provide a constant reminder of what was once a location for commerce, production and living. According to the 2000 Census, Philadelphia had almost …

Catherine Whalen’s day begins like many young, single mothers. Her alarm clock pierces the calm of the Fishtown morning at 6 a.m., leaving her just enough time to get her two children out of bed, fed, dressed and prepared …

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There is no shortage of customers at Colosimo’s Gun Store on the 900 block of Spring Garden Street. A group of young men are buzzed into the store every few minutes, each time bringing in a gust of cold air through the door with a National Rifle Association sticker plastered on it. Eager customers talk excitedly among themselves while they press their noses against the glass cabinets lined with handguns. Outside, two New Yorkers wearing Yankee caps smoke cigarettes while they wait for the …