below: Womrath Park
Author: Jim
Photo Essay: I Used to Walk to School
A few weeks ago it was so warm I retraced my walk to high school from Penn and Harrison to North Catholic at Torresdale and Hunting Park.
below: Frankford Creek looking north on Frankford Ave
below: Frankford Creek looking south on Frankford Ave
below: Frankford Creek looking south on Kensington Ave
below: shopping cart in Frankford Creek at Kensington Ave
below: Steven is a wiener at the KFC/Taco Bell, corner of Hunting Park and Kensington Ave
Neighbor Beaten to Death is Frankford’s First Homocide of ’09
According to the PPD’s crime map, there have been seven homicides in Northeast Philadelphia so far in 2009. Not one of them has been in Frankford. This time last year we already had four. And that’s been something to write home about. But the tenth is probably ours because as of now I can hear the helicopters circling overhead because some moron beat his neighbor to death and has barracaded himself inside a house. So says CBS3.
Update: NBC 10 says it happened on the 1300 block of Anchor, and calls that Oxford Circle. So does Fox 29. And as much as I’d like to give this one up to OC, Anchor Street is south of Cheltenham Ave and is definitely in Frankford.
Update: Michael Boccinfusso has been charged with murdering his neighbor Dallas “Chief” Custalow.
Someone Finally Posts on our Message Board
Here at the Gazette, we’re used to things taking time. Frankford will not be rushed. Now I don’t even remember when we put a link for the community message board up, it must have been months. And yesterday, someone actually posted something. Nothing really positive, more like “wow does it suck since I’ve left”. But what can you ask for.
Come join the conversation over at the Message Board.
Frankford Makes Rare Appearance in Philadelphia Weekly
A quick search for “Frankford” on The Philadelphia Weekly‘s website doesn’t show much, an entry here and there talking about the Market-Frankford El, but Frankford’s Chris Wink got his article Kicked The Habit in this week’s edition.
