All Philadelphia public schools will remain closed on Friday, Jan. 5, due to heavy snowstorm that hit the area on Thursday. All after-school activities, including all athletic programs and professional development sessions scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday are also canceled. All District early childhood centers will also be closed.

School District headquarters will open on a two-hour delay.

All Archdiocesan high schools and parochial elementary schools will also be closed on Friday due to today’s storm.

Snow emergency for Philadelphia will end at 8 p.m. on Thursday.

UPDATE (3/14/17, 1:20 p.m.): The snow emergency was lifted at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, and parking is again allowed on snow emergency routes.

Due to the anticipated winter storm a snow emergency will be in effect in Philadelphia beginning at 9 p.m. this evening, which means all the vehicles parked along streets designated as snow emergency routes should be moved. Enforcement, with ticketing and towing, will begin at midnight. Cars left on snow emergency routes will be moved to other parking spots to assist in snow plowing operations. If your car is moved, call 215-686-SNOW to find it (don’t call 911).

Here you can find more information about snow emergency routes and here is a map.

The Philadelphia Parking Authority has announced that they will not be enforcing meters or time limits on residential blocks during the snow emergency.

All trash and recycling collections will be suspended for Tuesday, March 14. If your collection day is Tuesday please hold your trash until the next week.  Continue Reading

UPDATE (2/9/2016): Due to the low snow accumulations, Streets Department crews will be collecting Tuesday’s trash and recycling on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Residents whose trash collection day is Tuesday can now put their materials on the curb.

On Monday, the Streets Department announced  that it cancelled Tuesday trash and recycling pick-up ahead of an expected snowstorm that will put garbage trucks to work as snowplows.

Due to the weekend snow storm, all Philadelphia public schools and pre-kindergarten programs will be closed again on Tuesday, Jan. 26, according to the District’s announcement. There will be a two-hour delay opening for all administrative offices.

Archdiocese of Philadelphia schools will also be closed on Tuesday.

Here’s some good news following the monster weekend storm and the enormous snow removal work: Trash and recycling collections are expected to resume on Tuesday, Jan. 26.

As concerns the problem of many side streets still not plowed after the 4th largest snow storm in Philly history, City officials expect to have all thruway streets plowed by the end of the day on Wednesday.

How does your street or block look today? If it’s still bad, contact 311 (twitter @philly311) to request plowing and salting (please provide your approximate address).

The Philly311 Contact Center is open until 8p tonight to answer all your @PhiladelphiaGov info and service requests including for #phlsnow

— Philly311 (@philly311) January 25, 2016

Before the winter storm hit on Friday, a large sinkhole had opened up on 40th Street between Walnut and Chestnut, closing the block down to traffic (and plows). The weekend storm delayed the sinkhole repairs. Here are a few photos taken today on the block:

And here’s the sinkhole:

According to a West Philly Local reader, who posted a comment on the site, there is a creek that runs under the street and “there used to be a door under the Free Library on the corner (might still be) that you could open and see the creek.” Reportedly, there is a brick arch covering it, but the bricks are more than 100 years old.