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Building Stories: The Roundhouse
- Friday, May 6, 2016
- By Ashley Hahn
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- 750 Race Street, Philadelphia PA
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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…
Eyes on the Trail: Officials respond to Schuylkill River crime with lighting and town watch
- Friday, February 12, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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- Lloyd Hall
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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…
From the Editor: Pedestrians need safer streets. Now!
- Monday, March 2, 2015
- By Matt Golas
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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 gets $525,000 for pedestrian safety efforts
- Thursday, May 1, 2014
- By Christine Fisher
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- 1401 JFK Boulevard
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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…
New Police headquarters in West Philly means sale for Roundhouse, Health Department buildings
- Tuesday, March 19, 2013
- By Ashley Hahn
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- 4601 Market Street, Philadelphia PA
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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. …
Q&A with SEPTA Police Chief Thomas Nestel
- Wednesday, January 2, 2013
- By Christine Fisher
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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…
7th District Police testing license-screening technology
- Thursday, December 6, 2012
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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…
Point Breeze eminent domain moves ahead | more variances for retail? | Police still use typewriters | Germantown trash woes | Native American Museum decays | record Restaurant Week
- Wednesday, November 14, 2012
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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…
O'Neill: Ballot question will leave service test bonus in voters' hands
- Thursday, September 13, 2012
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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…
L&I's web overhaul | reclaiming West Kensington blocks | Preston's Paradise grows | Schuylkill embankment landscaping | SugarHouse expansion delay
- Tuesday, August 14, 2012
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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…
Makeover for police department's district web pages
- Monday, July 2, 2012
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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…
O'Neill pushes for extended hiring benefits for police and fire grandchildren
- Tuesday, June 5, 2012
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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…
New tactical training facility at Police Academy
- Tuesday, May 8, 2012
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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,…
Workforce matchmakers | inequitable REO maintenance | earthen architecture | city tax reform stalled | iWatch crime reporting
- Friday, April 6, 2012
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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: Fire, arrest reward, more news in Frankford
- Thursday, March 15, 2012
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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…
Don't feed homeless outdoors, Kenzo's new Police Captain, OCF wins at ZBA, Clarke stonewalls on Council budget, Phone thefts up on SEPTA, Corbett signs Voter ID bill and Rove smiles
- Thursday, March 15, 2012
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Provident Mutual Life Insurance Building to be reused as Police Command Center
- Thursday, March 8, 2012
- By Ashley Hahn
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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…
11 of the city's most sought-after violent offenders are from Northeast Philadelphia [slideshow]
- Thursday, March 8, 2012
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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…
PGW liens target landlords, $1.5m foundation grant for school reform, SEPTA protests House Transportation bill, Kenny Gamble's urban mansion, PPD's Real-Time Crime watch
- Thursday, February 23, 2012
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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…
Behind police eviction of Occupy, City Council considers raft of planning and zoning measures, Magarity Ford redevelopment clears committee, stray horse in Kensington
- Thursday, December 1, 2011
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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…
