Public Space
Impact Services hosted an “End-of-Soccer Celebration and Back-to-School Backpack Giveaway” at Hissey Playground on Indiana Avenue and C Street.
By Solmaira Valerio
Community Life
The event was hosted by District 7 Councilmember Quetcy Lozada's office.
By Solmaira Valerio
Government & Policy
The event was sponsored by the Harrowgate Civic Association, Impact Services, Kensington Corridor Trust, and Ride Free.
By Solmaira Valerio
Clean Streets
Researchers are studying whether therapeutic writing exercises and cash incentives help motivate women with a history of drug use to continue taking PrEP and decrease their illicit drug use.
By Sammy Caiola
Public Space
Community members gathered for a special event celebrating the arrival of Roberto Lugo’s first sculpture installation.
By Solmaira Valerio
Housing & Shelter
Streets were closed from Kensington Avenue to Emerald Street and Orleans to Somerset streets.
By Jillian Bauer-Reese & Sammy Caiola
Health & Wellness
The medical services that the zoning exception would impact include HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing and treatment, HIV medication, substance use treatment, and wound care.
By Emily Rizzo
Government & Policy
Police leaders and prosecutors provided additional details about the incident during a news conference Monday at PPD headquarters.
By Jack Tomczuk, Metro Philadelphia
Arts & Culture
Artist Victor Sgro, who is in recovery, said he hopes his mural inspires others who are still struggling with opioid addiction.
By Khysir Carter
Los nuevos oficiales trabajarán en tres turnos y cubrirán el vecindario las 24 horas del día. La mayoría de los oficiales patrullarán el vecindario a pie, y algunos estarán en bicicletas.
By Emily Rizzo
Small Business
The Ma family’s lives were upended in 2016 when a fire at a neighboring discount store swept through their store.
By Lee Nentwig
Health & Wellness
During Tuesday’s primary, the 7th and 33rd Wards, which include Fairhill, Harrowgate, and Kensington, remained the two wards with the lowest voter turnout in Philadelphia.
By Khysir Carter & Emily Rizzo
Community Life
La carrera del 23 de abril incluye elecciones importantes para Fiscal General, Auditor Estatal y el Senado. Ah, y también esa cosa de la presidencia.
By Julie Platt & Lauren McCutcheon, The Philadelphia Citizen
Clean Streets
Ridgway, who founded Harrowgate Civic Association about 10 years ago, now serves as the group’s vice president.
By Emily Rizzo
Housing & Shelter
The city’s plan entails bussing unhoused residents to the surrounding counties and possible family reunification, plus increased police engagement, according to city officials.
By Emily Rizzo
Arts & Culture
Over the past year, in collaboration with Mural Arts, Lugo collected input from community members to get a sense of the neighborhood’s patterns — patterns that reflect their background, culture, and everyday life.
By Emily Rizzo
Community Life
Latino families in Philadelphia say they’re choosing charter schools operated by Latino-led nonprofit organizations because the schools are able to fill gaps not filled by the school district.
By Amanda DeJesus, Chalkbeat Philadelphia
Community Life
Las familias latinas en Filadelfia dicen que están eligiendo escuelas charter operadas por organizaciones sin fines de lucro lideradas por latinos porque estas escuelas pueden llenar vacíos que el distrito escolar no cubre.
By Amanda DeJesus, Chalkbeat Philadelphia
Government & Policy
Effective immediately, businesses without liquor licenses located between Kensington and Frankford avenues and Lehigh Avenue and Tioga Street must close from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
By Emily Rizzo
Community Life
El documento de 761 páginas menciona a Kensington un total de 16 veces, más que cualquier otro vecindario, incluido el Centro de la Ciudad.
By Jillian Bauer-Reese
Arts & Culture
A group of Kensington CAPA students took portraits of five Philadelphia women ages 59 to 86 and directed and produced a documentary film about their lives.
By Emily Rizzo
Arts & Culture
Durante un curso de producción de medios digitales, los estudiantes asumieron diversos roles: algunos fotógrafos, cineastas, ingenieros de audio, iluminadores, editores, entrevistadores y diseñadores de escenografía, y algunos desempeñaron múltiples roles.
By Emily Rizzo
Government & Policy
Durante el almuerzo anual de alcaldes de la Cámara de Comercio del Gran Filadelfia la semana pasada, la alcaldesa Cherelle Parker expresó su apoyo a la concejala del Distrito 7, Quetcy Lozada, y ofreció a los asistentes otra mirada de sus planes para Kensington.
By Khysir Carter