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How University City’s New Student High-Rises Will Affect The West Philly Market
About the authorStephen Currall recently received his BA in history from Arcadia University. Before beginning doctoral studies, he is pursuing his interest in local history, specifically just how...
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Marking Time–And Place–In North Philadelphia
Henssler’s Lock Shop from Hidden City Philadelphia on Vimeo.About the authorMeredith Nutting is a freelance filmmaker originally from the DC Metro Area. Since finishing her Biology/Studio Art degree at...
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Blazing Ballerinas And A Rampaging Elephant At 807 Walnut Street
Current prospect of 807 Walnut Street, not much to look at | Photo: Harry KyriakodisWalnut Street Theatre, the oldest in America, opened on the northeast corner of Ninth and Walnut Streets in 1809 as a...
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Blatstein To Transform Design Center?
Coming soon to the Design Center: a Tower tower? | Photo: Bradley MauleThe Marketplace Design Center, Philadelphia’s premier destination for interior design, may soon have itself a major makeover....
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Keeping Up Appearances On Market Street
Dan O’Brian | photo: Michael Persico, for Flying KiteFlying Kite reports on the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau’s (PCVB) initiative to make Market Street a truly sleepless corridor—ensuring...
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Steep Discounts For Hidden City Members As Festival Tickets Go On Sale
Hidden City Festival 2013 (May 23-June 30) tickets and passes were put on sale this morning and are now available at our terrific Festival website HERE. You can also visit our TicketLeap site HERE or...
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CHOP Facility To Offer More Public Space Along Schuylkill
The future CHOP site in 2012 | philly.comAt a community meeting last night, CHOP presented updated plans for its massive, four-phase clinical research facility to be built beneath the South Street...
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All Aboard For GPTMC’s New Neighborhoods Campaign
Mayor Nutter presses the flesh at Stateside in South Philly; executive chef Elijah Milligan approves | Photo: Bradley Maule“This is the city of neighborhoods in the United States of America,” Mayor...
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Overburdened South Philly Residents Speak Out Against Casino Proposals
About the authorStephen Currall recently received his BA in history from Arcadia University. Before beginning doctoral studies, he is pursuing his interest in local history, specifically just how...
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Old Town Hall Turns New City Hall
Chuck sez: buy your Festival tickets now! Significant discounts for Hidden City members | Photo: Bradley MauleWith the Philadelphia School Reform Commission’s March decision to close Germantown High...
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Benediction At St. John The Evangelist
The golden glow in the late day sanctuary at St. John the Evangelist | Photo: Chris DoughertyEditor’s Note: The Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist is being demolished, along with its rectory...
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The Green Grass Of The Middle Class
The lush, green, diverse streets of Oxford Circle in Northeast Philadelphia | Photo: Bradley MauleBack in 2006, the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program released a report documenting what researchers...
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Where To Put Philly’s Bike Share Stations?
photo: David Maialetti, for philly.comInga Saffron describes the difficult task ahead in choosing the initial 120 stations for Philadelphia’s bike share program.“With [our city’s] colonial-era street...
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Slaughterhouse 3000 (Market Street)
3000 Market | Photo: Nathaniel PopkinIn the early 20th Century, long before anyone had thought the area around 30th and Market could house an “innovation neighborhood” or a porch with candy-colored...
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The Platt Bridge Tells More Than Just Industrial Malaise
About the authorStephen Currall recently received his BA in history from Arcadia University. Before beginning doctoral studies, he is pursuing his interest in local history, specifically just how...
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Ghosts In The System
R U Still Down? (Remember Me) | Google Street View, Buck Hosiery EditionThere’s a world where the Buck Hosiery warehouse still stands tall and quiet, awaiting rebirth, where you can still drive down...
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How To Spot A Theater
Entrance to the Boyd Theater, 1928. Photo: The Irvin R. Glazer Collection, Athenaeum of Philadelphia.Editor’s Note:There are seemingly countless ways to imagine and understand the way cities like...
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Schuylkill Center To Construct Four “Ecoventions” With Knight Arts Grant
About the authorStephen Currall recently received his BA in history from Arcadia University. Before beginning doctoral studies, he is pursuing his interest in local history, specifically just how...
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On The Book Of Bacon: A Q&A With Greg Heller
Greg Heller, author of Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern PhiladelphiaEd. note: Greg Heller’s book, Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia—the first...
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On South Broad Street, A Lot Of Cool Stuff
South Broad Street’s newest (temporary) green space: Pop Up Garden | Image: University of the Arts (Facebook)When University of the Arts purchased the five-story City Club in 1987, it had visions of...
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