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Romain House Update

Romain HouseAs we reported back in March, the Romain House, 4245 Romain Street (map), was awarded a makeover in the HGTV voting.  Inqlings at Philly.com reports that the work began on Friday:

HGTV is in town with host Carter Oosterhouse and designer Monica Pedersen as they rebuild a house off Frankford Avenue for the Pennsylvania American Legion Housing for Homeless Veterans Corp., which will put up three veterans there. Jack Prichard, Adam Norbutti, and Chris Wray, three electricians from Local 98 and Iraq war veterans, are among the volunteer workers. The project will be shown on Veterans Day on an HGTV special that also will profile local veterans, including Stanley Fabiszewski, who served under Gen. George Patton in World War II. Flyers coach John Stevens and Mayor Nutter attended Friday’s opening ceremony. Closing ceremony is scheduled for June 28.

Good news for the residents and Romain Street as well.  We’ll try to get down there to get some pictures.

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Crime Map Update

crime graphicI’ve updated the crime map page to include the period from May 5th through May 24th.  During that period there was one murder and two sexual assaults.  On the other hand, robbery for some reason is down significantly again.  The numbers look like this.

2008 2009
Homicide 0 1
Rape 1 2
robbery 25 3
ag assault 7 11
Theft 36 46
burglary 17 12
Total 86 75
guns 12 3
knives 6 2
other 2 8
Total 20 13
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Frankford Real Estate Transactions

sold_graphicHere are some real estate transactions courtesy of our friends at ReMax CitySpace.  Data includes sales of Frankford properties in May of 2009.

936-38 Herbert St $199,900
1118 Kenwyn St $55,000
1660 Granite St $27,500
5115 Valley St $65,000
5220 Oakland St $85,000
4339 Tackawanna St $45,000
5154 Leiper St $60,000
1105 Harrison St $110,000
930 Anchor St $55,000
2139 Carver St $56,000
4704 Large St $94,000
4310 Milnor St $99,000
5432 Discher St $89,900
5314 Sylvester St $125,000
5129 Walker St $89,900
2074 Simon St $71,000
1228 Wakeling St $175,000
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Say Hello To Jason Roberts, Metal Smith And Artisan

Jason Roberts, 28, is a metal smith who has set up shop at the Globe Dye Works, it’s very first tenant, for more than a year and four months.  He’s originally from Royersford in Montgomery County, and after studying fine metal and silver smithing at Kutztown University, he plied his trade in North Carolina, Illinois and England.  What’s he do?  Apparently tons of stuff that deals with working metal into cool stuff.

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Jason is the real deal, and while he’s in Frankford doing his thing, we’ll try to keep up with him and show this city what great things are coming out of Frankford these days.  Case in point, do you see what he’s standing in?  Can you take a guess what it is?  Or better yet, where it’s going to be installed.  Cause when I found out, I was pretty impressed.  You only have a few days to guess, cause I just gotta share this.  Welcome to Frankford Jason, even though you’ve been here a while.

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Fox News Geographically Challenged

Fox News must be geographically challenged or just too lazy to check where the 6400 block of Frankford Avenue (map) lies.

The FBI is hunting for a bank robber who attacked a customer in Philadelphia’s Frankford section.  Police say the man jumped the counter at the Wachovia Bank Branch on the 6400 block of Frankford Avenue around 10:25 a.m. Friday.

It does not lie in Frankford but in Mayfair.  Why do they call it myfoxphilly of they don’t know the neighborhoods.  Of course they could always do a correction but they never have in the past.