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Advocates For Elderly Advise Staying Put After Snowstorms
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - We’re all having trouble getting around since the latest snowstorm. But the infirm and elderly are having an especially difficult time. Outside a hospital complex in center city...
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Penna. Hospital Plans Medical Office Highrise Near Jefferson Campus
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The City of Philadelphia’s planning commission has received a first look at plans by Pennsylvania Hospital to build a medical office tower next to that of a rival, Thomas Jefferson...
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Public Invited To Watch Sendak Mural Conservation At Center City Museum
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A mural by author and illustrator Maurice Sendak is undergoing restoration at a center city museum, and visitors are invited to stop by on Wednesdays to watch the work as it...
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Center City Jazz Club Serves Up Mounds Of Crawdads For Mardi Gras
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A center city Philadelphia jazz club and restaurant is celebrating Fat Tuesday today with a bounty of crawfish. Everywhere you looked in the cramped kitchen at Chris’ Jazz Cafe,...
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Theatre Review: ”Superior Donuts” At The Arden
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The Arden Theatre has raised the curtain on another play by multi-award-winning playwright Tracy Letts. This creation, titled “Superior Donuts,” while impressive, may be too...
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City Council Committee OKs Plan For Penn Medical Tower at 8th and Walnut
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Plans for construction of a medical office tower in center city by Penn Health System got an initial okay today in Philadelphia City Council, despite concerns voiced by nearby...
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West Philadelphia Man Will Serve 5-20 Years For ‘Flash Mob’ Assault on Cyclist
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A 23-year-old West Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty to a vicious assault on a bicyclist during a “flash mob” riot at Broad and South Streets two years ago. As part of a plea...
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Nutter Sets 9 PM Weekend Curfew For Minors In Center City, University City
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Mayor Michael Nutter today announced a tighter weekend curfew in the Center City and University City regions of the city, as he continues grappling with the threat of “flash mobs”...
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Saturday Night March Planned To Protest Philadelphia’s New Curfews
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Critics of the Nutter administration’s new weekend curfew for underage teens (see related story) are planning to protest the executive order tomorrow night. Several community...
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In Center City Philadelphia, A Pro-Fitness Dance Rave
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A center city lunchtime crowd today was treated to a street performance promoting fitness through dance. Participants in the mass performance were dancing to Beyoncé’s “Move Your...
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Phillies ‘Rally Trolley’ Fires Up Philadelphia Ahead Of Crucial Game 5
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A Phillies “rally trolley” rolled through the street of center city and South Philadelphia this afternoon, surprising passersby and revving up baseball fans for tonight’s deciding...
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Market Street, JFK Blvd. Narrowed For City Traffic Experiment
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Market Street West in center city and JFK Boulevard look a little different today. The city has begun a two-week test of reducing both thoroughfares by one lane. The lefthand...
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Horticultural Society’s Downtown Community Garden Going Fallow
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The end is near for a community garden in center city Philadelphia, but the bounty will live on. You may have stumbled upon the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society‘s “pop-up” garden...
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Positively Philadelphia: Art Gallery Owner Fulfills Her Dream
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Ten years ago, Bridgette Mayer had an idea: open up her own gallery and show young artists. “I decided to really focus on young artists who are stepping out of graduate school and...
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A Tiny Urban Park Renamed To Honor A Prolific Philadelphia Landscape Architect
By John Ostapkovich PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A tiny park in center city Philadelphia has been refurbished, and renamed for the guy who put his heart and soul into it. John F. Collins designed the tiny...
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Pennsylvania Voters Asked To Show ID Cards As State Prepares For New Law
By Cherri Gregg PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary provided a “dry run” for the state’s new voter ID law (see related story). Only the most dedicated voters tend to show up for the...
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W Hotel Could Be In Philadelphia’s Future
By Hadas Kuznits PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A world-class hotel could be coming to Philadelphia. Katie Martin with the Mayor’s Communication Office confirmed on Thursday that there is talk of a W Hotel...
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Suspect Identified In Attack On SEPTA Bus Driver
By Steve Tawa, Anne-Marie Green PHILADELPHIA (CBS) –Scores of police officers swarmed a SEPTA bus this morning in Center City Philadelphia in response to the desperate pleas of a driver being choked...
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Positively Philadelphia: The Wells Fargo Museum
By Lauren Lipton PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — You may have walked by and never noticed it, but there is the coolest little museum at Broad and Walnut Streets in center city. The Wells Fargo History Museum, at...
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Center City Retailers Eager To Get Their Street Back After Water Main Break
By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Foot traffic is flowing fairly smoothly near the intersection of 16th and Walnut Streets in center city Philadelphia, but dump trucks and front-end loaders have yet...
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