September 10, 2019
Have you ever looked at a pair of jeans and wished there was a way to upgrade them in order to keep them in your wardrobe? Well, there is a solution for you and it’s called sustainable fashion! Learn how to spruce up your closet while saving money in your pocket and keeping waste out of the environment. This workshop series with a fashion designer and founder of Stellar Design, Keyonna Butler, will teach basic sewing, stitching, and sustainability in fashion.
This free workshop will be held every Saturday in October from 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. at Neighborhood Time Exchange (4017 Lancaster Ave.). Email ntx4017@gmail.com to register. You can also register online. Registrants must participate in all workshop dates.
September 9, 2019
On Monday morning, SEPTA, local officials, including mayor Jim Kenney, and community members gathered on Woodland Avenue between 47th and 48th Streets to celebrate the completion of the Woodland Avenue Bridge Replacement Project. The bridge, which carries SEPTA Trolley Routes 11 and 36, and crosses the Media/Elwyn Regional Rail Line, has been fully replaced.
The bridge was originally built in the 1920s and had severely deteriorated due to age, weather and traffic. SEPTA partnered with the City of Philadelphia and PennDOT to manage the design and construction of the replacement bridge. Funding for the $7.3 million project was made possible by Act 89 of 2013, which has provided a large funding source for transportation infrastructure improvement projects throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The project began in Spring 2018 and was completed last month. Both trolley lines and street traffic were detoured during construction.
September 6, 2019
If you have a car parked along Baltimore Avenue between 49th and 51st Streets, you should move. Same goes for 50th and 51st from Pentridge to Catharine. Cars should be moved by 11 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 6. or they will be towed, according to police.
All of this is for the N2N Festival in Cedar Park this Saturday, Sept. 7, featuring Salt-N-Pepa.
Cars can be parked again on those streets starting 12 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 8.
September 5, 2019
An uptick in thefts from autos was reported back in May in the 18th Police District, which covers West Philadelphia neighborhoods south of Market Street, and the number of such thefts and car break-ins has remained high throughout the summer, according to several crime alerts from police.
Last Thursday, a string of thefts from cars parked on the 4800 block of Hazel all the way to the 5100 block of Hazel was reported. The thefts took place between the early morning hours of 2 a.m. to 4:30 a.m.. Check out this video: Continue Reading
September 3, 2019
A new Mexican restaurant, Taco Taco, quietly opened last month in the former Honest Tom’s Plant Based Taco Shop location at 261 S. 44th Street. According to a recent report, Honest Tom’s longtime kitchen staff members – Alvaro, Maria and Eli – took over the space after former owner Tom McCusker left at the end of July to start a new business, Fruitadelphia.
The new restaurant is no longer vegan, although it still features some vegan items, like BIFF (a walnut-based “meat”) tacos and burritos. The new owners brought back the old menu, including breakfast on the weekends, which Honest Tom’s used to serve before it went all-vegan in the summer of 2018.
Taco Taco is open Monday – Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
For more info, check out their Facebook page.
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