In Queen Village

Early in the twentieth century, South 4th Street existed as the commercial center of Philadelphia’s Jewish community. In the 1920s, City Hall issued pushcart permits thus laying the groundwork for what would later be known as Fabric Row. In its heyday, as many as 500 people made their living as a

Last week, we told you about a 200-unit apartment building being proposed on North Columbus Blvd., between to Sugarhouse casino and Waterfront Square. At the same Planning Commission meeting where these plans were discussed, the same architects, Cope Linder, presented plans for another tower on the same street, just a

South Street’s Theatre of the Living Arts (TLA) has been a mainstay on Philadelphia’s visual and performance art landscape since its founding in 1964.  Though the venue officially became Fillmore Philadelphia at the TLA in 2007, its longstanding moniker is still preferred by just about everybody.  The sentimentality is not misplaced given the building’s important role

After the market went in for a long winter’s nap in 2008, a number of retailers along South Street went out of business. Unfortunately, a few years later, many vacancies remain on this once-bohemian strip.

Worried by the number of empty storefronts, in 2009 Julia Zagar, owner of Eyes Gallery, located at 400 South

When you live in a Philly row home, the sun could be hanging like a medallion outside, and the streets alight like a storybook photograph and you can enter your home and sit by the front window and almost be convinced it’s raining outside. Darn neighbors blocking your light! We

If you’ve ever seen a driver navigating a scooter, maybe a Vespa, around town, perhaps you thought, that person looks ridiculous. Or maybe you thought, ah, they know the score.

Whatever the case, you may be soon seeing a lot more folks on scooters, especially in Queen Village or Society Hill.

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Philadelphia Style Magazine... home to Philadelphia’s well-heeled debutantes, its immaculately groomed beautiful people, its denizens of the finer things.  The high society print publication, founded in 1998 and reaching a circulation of roughly 70,000 readers, is headquartered on the quiet Queen Village block of League Street between Front & 2nd.

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If you’ve ever walked, cycled or driven the length of Bainbridge Street between 3rd and 5th Sts., you’re probably familiar with the strange island of parking spaces dividing Bainbridge Street into an east and westbound lane in the middle an otherwise fairly straightforward grid of one-way streets (aside from the

We've heard rumblings about Weccacoe Flats for months now, but only yesterday did we happen upon the future location of this neat development. 817-19 S. 5th St., just around the corner from the soon-to-be-made-over Weccacoe Playground, currently consists of two fairly standard Queen Village 2.5 story homes that look like

In Queen Village, plans are developing for the revitalization of a site once referred to by local youths as “Broken-Glass Park.” Those involved envision their park will become an innovative 21st-century urban enclave.

Over the past decade, the Friends of Weccacoe Playground (FWP) have worked to clean the 3/4-acre public park situated between Catharine, Queen, Leithgow,