Spring wasn’t so hot this year. Scratch that. It was hot — often way too hot for spring. It was pretty cold other times, and […]
Fitler Square is an intimate park of about half an acre at 23rd and Pine. The quiet, tree-lined streets that surround it have pretty homes […]
Check out this beauty from a time when even a small-time office building was something to design the crap out of. The Vulcanite Building, besides […]
Since the building collapse at 22nd and Market, the building trades union, represented by Pat Gillespie, have been saying that if union labor had been […]
Attorney Steven Wigrizer and Richard Basciano will probably be crossing paths–again. Basciano is the owner of the building that collapsed and killed six people in […]
The most expensive Rittenhouse home that sold this week was at 10 Rittenhouse. It’s a 3,700-square-foot, three-bedroom unit with a den and four-and-a-half bathrooms, plus […]
One of the reasons Sean Benschop was arrested and charged was because he was allegedly operating a vehicle while impaired–there was marijuana detected in his […]
Rittenhouse Square Fitness Club (RSFC) is closing its doors on June 15th, and doing so, according to a recent announcement, “with a heavy heart.” The […]
Let’s start the morning with a fun juxtaposition. In the photo above, there’s a union protester handing out fliers in front of the Federal Donuts […]
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams is giving a press conference announcing that a grand jury will be convened to “investigate any and all aspects that […]
The lawyers are gathering–that much we know. But who is legally responsible for what happened? Or, perhaps better said, who will be targeted as legally […]
The Friends of Rittenhouse Square have been on an improvement tear. Last summer, Friends President Betsy Hummel announced Phase One of the group’s lighting project–including […]
After search and rescue, it’s a different kind of work.
Sean Benschop was the man operating the excavator–a giant vehicle of far greater complication than an automobile–when the building collapsed at 22nd and Market. Given […]
This is a photograph illustrating a story pertaining to the building collapse at 22nd and Market, which is probably the most photographed event in recent […]
