He said he tried to get to know each person and learn more about how they ended up on Kensington Avenue. "A lot of the people I interviewed don't want to be there but they don't have a choice. They have to be there because they are so dependent upon drugs. Whether it's fentanyl...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia will temporarily shut down Kensington Avenue from East Orleans Street to Allegheny Avenue on Wednesday in Kensington as city workers clear an encampment of people in the neighborhood's main corridor. "The temporary closure is needed to ensure the safety of ...
To help her community, Rodriguez knew she would need to go to college. But she had a long road ahead of her: she was a first-generation student from one of Philadelphia’s most well-known neighborhoods. From the 1800s through the late 1950s, Kensington was a thriving, working-class neig...
I was sober, I got paralyzed by a chiropractor and I was in Jefferson for a month and a half and they were giving me opioids for the pain. And I got out and I last like a week. I went to Kensington got drugs, yeah, that’s where everybody goes. And I used and then I set i...
Those who sold drugs had torched the Quaker Lace ruins, which in turn had provided a new home for another unfortunate byproduct of the area's economic collapse鈥攚elfare recipients. It was like a forest fire that cleared out old growth and made way for new vegetation. (Zucchino 1997, 59...