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In the winter you see the birds on our deck easier without all the leaves in the trees. My wife is always looking out for the wildlife and spotted this hawk this afternoon. Does anybody know what kind it is. I’ve never seen it in the neighborhood before although I have seen a few along the median on the Boulevard.
Let us know if you can identify it. It has a reddish underbelly.
Previously, we’ve shown you Philly Car Share’s cars at Margarette/Orthodox, and now that we’ve found where they hide their cars at the Frankford Transportation Center, we have pics of those also. A Prius liftback and Dodge Caravan are available, although on our stop we only found the Prius. I found the pod a bit hard to locate. It’s located at 1A in the large parking structure next to the FTC. The easiest way seems to be to take the pedestrian stairs at the corner of Bridge and Bustleton that lead up to the parking garage. You can’t miss the signs.
Philly Car Share at the FTC
Prius liftback at the FTC
PhillyCarShare is a non-profit organization that provides members with access to a fleet of vehicles on an hourly basis. A tromendous resource for city dwellers that wish to shed their car payments and insurance and embrace transit oriented development. A search of their website shows that for all of northeast Philly, and for the hundreds of locations citywide, the farthest Philly Car Share goes into the northeast is Bridge and Pratt streets. That speaks volumes to me. While Frankford is down, it’s on pace with the rest of the new city’s future.
From the Philadelphia Business Journal:
Jefferson Health System and Frankford Hospitals finalized their previously announced realignment agreement Wednesday.
While Frankford — which operates hospitals in the Torresdale and Frankford sections of Philadelphia and a third in Falls, Bucks County — is not longer part of the Jefferson group, it will remain closely affiliated with the health-care system.
Frankford is pursuing plans to build a new Bucks County hospital in Lower Makefield to replace its existing medical center across from the Oxford Valley Mall.
The realignment agreement required Frankford to pay the Jefferson Health $67 million for its portion of the system’s overall bond debt.
Jefferson Health is now comprised of six acute-care and two rehab hospitals operated by Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Main Line Health, and Magee Rehabilitation Hospital.
Frankford’s departure followed a similar move by the Philadelphia-based Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, which left the Jefferson system in September.
This is a list of some of the real estate transactions in Frankford in December of 2008.
5432 Discher St $14,900
2044 Margaret S $79,800
1237 Adams Ave $76,900
5282 Glenloch St $93,900
1144 Anchor St $100,000
5014 Saul St $183,000
1138 Brill St $102,000
4539 Tackawanna St $27,500
5434 Large St $60,000
1113 E Sanger St $103,000
4554 E Stiles St $67,500
4360 Bermuda St $68,000
5401 Torresdale Ave $120,000
| 4931-35 Charles St $248,000 |
| 1118 Kenwyn St $74,500 |
| 1119 Kenwyn St $165,000 |
| 1440 E Bristol St $104,787 |
| 4643 Leiper St $147,000 |
| 1111 Fillmore St $124,900 |
