My last three columns have focused on ways that Philadelphia could launch or expand food scrap drop-off programs. And ...

When Robert Thomas, 78, was 11 years old, he envisioned a hiking trail in North Philadelphia that would follow the corridor ...

The offers come with a knock on the front door, a white envelope in the mail or a greeting from a fresh-faced salesperson at ...

We all have a routine that prepares us to conquer the day. We need our morning coffee, maybe, or to find the right playlist ...

Alphonse Pignataro, recently graduated from Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey), boarded a plane bound for ...

Philadelphia-based artist and educator Shira Walinsky has taken an interest in the lives of immigrants in the city. In 2016, ...

In the spring of 2024 the board of trustees of Parks & Rec Heroes, previously known as the Philadelphia Parks Alliance, voted ...

Olga Sorzano has a simple mission of making delicious, farm-to-bottle kombucha. In the ten years since she founded Baba’s ...

Every year the Trust for Public Land releases its ParkScore ratings, and every year Philadelphians have something to be ...

First raped at age 12 and then throughout her teens, Reverend Dr. Michelle Simmons began using drugs. In her early 20s, ...

On April 16, halfway through the City of Philadelphia’s annual budget hearings, Philadelphia Parks & Recreation answered City ...

Philadelphia’s park system is many things. It is big, but much of it is difficult to access. Some sections are practically ancient, home to historic buildings hundreds of years old; one even dates ...