Philadelphia Prepares To Remove Illegal Advertising Benches Citywide
The advertising benches are typically cement and wood, and advertise everything from strip clubs to diners.
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The advertising benches are typically cement and wood, and advertise everything from strip clubs to diners.
They're not much to look at and not even good eating, but it's tough to overstate the importance of freshwater mussels.
It's an idea to breathe new life into a languishing former industrial area between Philadelphia International Airport and University City.
The list, which highlights the 12 fruits and vegetables that are most contaminated by pesticides, included an additional "Plus" category for the second year in a row.
One by one, kids dipped a thumb into green paint and then put their mark on a white planter box which will be given to first lady Michelle Obama for the White House garden.
People have a myriad of reasons for deciding to get out of second homes, some of which have been in the family for generations.
On Monday, world-renowned artist Peter Hutchinson added his touch at the Artlantic site.
The spring allergy season, which had been forecast to be a bad one, is living up to its billing.
Friday, May 10th, is National Public Gardens Day, and Philadelphia is home to more gardens than any other city in the country.
"Operation Photo Rescue" is setting up shop this weekend in the Home Depot store in Seaside Heights, NJ.
By a 15-0 vote, councilmembers approved a measure that would for the first time allow advertising on publicly owned buildings such as recreation centers, and on city vehicles including trash trucks.
PA officials said Thursday that $340 million in federal disaster-relief funds will be available to New York communities affected by Superstorm Sandy.
The decision is a victory for open-land advocates, who saw the project as the first test of the city's two-year-old "Open Lands Protection Ordinance."
The columns stood by the entrance of Einstein for nearly 100 years, until a project to open access to the hospital from Broad Street forced their removal.
Once the weather and the ground warm up, some parts of the Delaware Valley will see one of nature's spectacles
That's according to a study by the nonprofit science journalism group Climate Central. It says that's equivalent to having Central Park covered 41 feet high with sewage.
Thousands of volunteers are taking to New Jersey's beaches, but not to get an early tan.
The City of Philadelphia celebrated Arbor Day Friday as it does every year, by planting trees and shrubs.
The DRWC's Lizzie Woods says they'll be unveiling new designs for the rotting, long-abandoned pier.
Earth Day comes a little late in Cherry Hill, but organizers of Saturday's festival at Croft Farm say it'll be worth the wait.
Now in the third year of a five-year, $130-million grant, the hub will finally get its own building: a retrofit.
Tuesday's chilly weather didn't exactly have people fighting for outdoor seating at Old City restaurants.
It'll be another breath of fresh air every time the Phillies "go yard" this season.
Earth Day is on Monday so hundreds of runners took part in an annual 5-K run for clean air.
The Franklin Insitute is asking for city permission to put up digital display panels to replace its static sign at the corner of 20th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
