South of South St. from River to River
Four local bakeries will assist with residents’ Thanksgiving dining prep. Are you desperately seeking oven space as you plan your Thanksgiving feast? Need help prepping the culinary centerpiece? Looking for a feast without all the fuss? How about having fresh-baked
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By Catherine Murray With warm and sunny weather just around the corner, we want to share some of our favorite brunch spots in South Philly that are the perfect places to reemerge from your weekend hibernation. In no particular order,
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A Neumann-Goretti student will become the East Passyunk Crossing school’s first University of Pennsylvania enrollee in three years. By Joseph Myers As a boy, Ikym Simon developed an intense interest in reading, with the discipline proving quite helpful last year
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By Catherine Murray On a cold and misty afternoon, I briskly walked through Mifflin Square park and admired the Buddhist temple in the distance and marveled at the diversity that makes up South Philly. The fabric of our neighborhoods is
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By Sandy Smith for the Passyunk Post What was a series of low-slung commercial buildings in the 2000 block of South 11th Street is now an empty lot. Soon, that lot will be filled with eight brand-new four-story townhouses called
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by Sandy Smith When the Lipkin family started their kosher bakery at Fourth and McKean streets many decades ago, the neighborhood surrounding it was 90 percent Jewish. By the time Mitch Lipkin moved it to Northeast Philly’s Rhawnhurst section in
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