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Construction of the PowderMill project is moving along on Wingohocking Street. Cayuga Street homes are finished on the exterior. Houses along the street connecting Cayuga and Wingohocking are now framed out.
See our slide show of all the pictures here.
Back in April, Penndot had a public meeting at Frankford High School to discuss the changes planned for the Bridge Street/Aramingo Avenue interchanges. This is a link to their website with a summary of what is proposed to happen at this point. Construction would not begin before 2012.
If you live in Frankford and use I-95 or the Betsy Ross bridge, your access will change. The Aramingo interchange will be completed and access will be from Aramingo Avenue or Torresdale Avenue. For me it will be easier to get to and from both. Some homes will be lost due to the realignment of the ramps and roadway.
You certainly could not complain about the weather last Saturday. It brought out a diverse crowd of codial folks looking for a good time. We did not have a lot of time to stay but we did video for about a half hour just as things were getting rolling. This is a rough cut but there is no sense in waiting till it’s perfect. We would like to add some video of the later musical performances. If you have any video (or stills) you would like to contribute, please contact us.
PennState’s online library has a 1941 paper about the old towns and districts of Philadelphia. It provides a nice history of the boroughs and townships of Philadelphia to the run up to the 1854 Act of Consolidation.
Of note is page 78, which is a map of the townships and districts of Philadelphia in 1854 and show’s us that Frankford was a little bit smaller then. It’s eastern border ended at Whitehall borough( which was centered at Bridge and Tacony Sts). And it shared a northern border with Oxford Township, along the Little Tacony Creek, Lieper, Harrison, and Horrocks streets.
I guess we could take credit for it but that isn’t true so I won’t even try. (We have been mapping cirme for 2 months now) The PPD crime map application now available online is a vast improvement over previous sources of information. It has its limitations but compared to the access to new data, they are minor.
One complaint we had with the information released to the Northeast Times in the past was that it did not include murder or rape for some reason. That is vital information to all of us. it is now available.
Take a look at it here.
