For our spring series Building Stories, we're bringing you design postcards from around the city. We're asking Philadelphia architects to take us to their favorite underappreciated or misunderstood buildings in Philadelphia, and explain…
Emil Nunez liked to walk along the Schuylkill River Trail. During the day, he could admire the trail’s handful of landscaped gardens, the silty river’s languid tranquility, and the statues dotted…
I think of Zach Woods almost every day. The multiple car crash that took his life happened just seconds before I arrived at the intersection of Walnut Street and 30th Street…
Philly’s streets are about to get $525,000 safer. Philadelphia has been selected as one of just three cities across the country to receive $525,000 in federal funding for increased pedestrian safety…
It's looking ever-more likely that someday the historic Provident Mutual Life Insurance Building at 46th and Market streets will become a new headquarters for the Police, Health Department, and city morgue. …
Thomas Nestel III remembers the days when SEPTA police didn’t have radios because they couldn’t pick up a signal underground, when officers were assigned to a single train and would ride…
It looks like one those handheld price scanners you’d see at the grocery store, but this tool that’s being piloted by one Philadelphia Police district is a bit niftier: it cuts…
Autumn street| Eyes on the Street Flickr GroupGood morning, Streeters. It’s GIS Day and we’ll be hanging out with mapmakers at the Free Library and at PennDesign to mark the…
An idea Councilman Brian O'Neill, R-10th, proposed in June will be presented to voters on the November ballot, and could affect the future of the city's police and fire departments. Initially…
Over the weekend L&I launched its newly redesigned website complete with property histories and the property data mapping capabilities – from vacancies to violations, permits to appeals – reports PlanPhilly’s Jared…
Go to the Philadelphia Police Department's districts web page and what'll you get? The first thing you'll see is a colorful map breaking down the department's districts and their Police Service…
Currently, the children of police and firefighters who've died in the line of duty receive a service credit on their qualifying exams to follow in their parents' footsteps. Councilman Brian O'Neill…
Ground was broken yesterday at a new tactical training facility at the Philadelphia Police Academy at 8501 State Rd. in Upper Holmesburg. The new building will combine the department's SWAT,…
Good morning, Streeters. It’s Good Friday and the beginning of Passover today, baseball is back, and the weekend promises to be nothing short of gorgeous. Here's this morning's…
NEast Links: Bringing you additional Northeast news Three people were injured Wednesday morning in a Morrell Park fire. It took firefighters 20 minutes to extinguish the blaze on the 3200-block of…
Today the vacant but majestic Provident Mutual Life Insurance Building has one inhabitant - a hawk living in the tower. But soon enough the Philadelphia Police Department could join the hawk's…
They live in Frankford; Northwood; Mayfair; Wissinoming; Lawncrest; and Tacony, and they're 11 of the Philadelphia Police Department's most-wanted violent offenders. The department released a video slideshow Tuesday of the city's…
Who should be on the hook for unpaid gas bills – the tenant or landlord? PGW goes after landlords with liens to cover for deadbeat tenants, and the Daily News reports…
Title & Trust | flickr user phillytrax, Eyes on the Street flickr group The Inquirer details the large-scale police operation to clear Dilworth Plaza, starting with readings of the First…