In Queen Village

Butterflies and the windows of curiosities are coming soon to a long neglected Fulton Street wall often subjected to graffiti and public urination in Queen Village.

Queen Village artist Conrad Booker is scheduled to begin painting his mural “Harmony and the Windows of Curiosities” in mid- or late-May, at 770 S. 4th St. Booker is known

Almost a year ago (wow, how time flies), we told you about Queen's Walk, a sixteen-home development under construction at the corner of 5th and Montrose Sts., formerly the site of a dessert topping manufacturer. At the time, the development consisted of wood framing and some foundations.

As the past ten

In Queen Village, a Chinese fast-food take-out restaurant that opened a few months ago has caused some concerns for local neighbors. It seems that the owners opened their eatery, located at 942 S. 5th St., without proper permits or zoning.

Owners appeared before the Queen Village Neighborhood Association (QVNA) zoning committee at its meeting this

Back in October, we openly wondered about the ongoing demolition work at 825 S. 4th St., former home Queen Village Pizza. At the time, the never-impressive pizza shop had recently closed, and it appeared as though demo work was going on both in the downstairs retail space and in the

After more than a year scanning the city’s neighborhoods for a perfect location, DIG Yoga is set to open by late spring or early summer in Queen Village, at 412 Monroe St.

The studio will fill a space that's removed from the street, up a driveway and next to the building that's marked

Over the weekend, we noticed a SOLD sign on a warehouse located at 531-33 Bainbridge St.

Used for the past however many years for fabric storage for nearby Fleishman's Fabrics, this building has not had any sort of retail use for quite some time. Looking at the faded painted signs on

Over the summer, when we told you about a bunch of activity on the 500 block of Washington Ave., one of the projects we mentioned was a large, new construction building on the northwest corner of 5th St. & Washington Ave.

Since we last checked in, this building has come along

Neighborhood improvements are on in the way in Queen Village, where new schoolyards will soon be built at the Meredith and Nebinger schools.

Since August, neighbors and parents of students at the Meredith School, located at 5th and Fitzwater Sts., have participated in a series of meetings designed to generate community input

While the streets of Philadelphia were once home to abolitionists and hideouts on the Underground Railroad, slave traders also lived and worked here.

In colonial days, Captain William Spafford traded slaves along with all sorts of goods like candles and West Indian rum, out of the store on the ground-floor of his

We enjoyed a tasty fresh bagel from South St. Bagels today and afterward spotted a number of Zoning Notices on the 200 block of South St., in the space that formerly held Chef's Market. For those who don't remember, Chef's Market filled several commercial spaces on this block for years