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Northwood Civic Association meeting

Tom Waring reports this week in the Northeast Times on the Northwood Civic Association meeting held on April 15th.  You can read the entire article here.

I was not aware until I read the article of the meeting tomorrow night, April 24th, at Frankford High School.  The subject being:

“The state Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting on Thursday, April 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Frankford High School.
PennDOT will provide information and ask for comment on projects to improve Interstate 95 and the Bridge Street and the Betsy Ross Bridge/Aramingo Avenue interchanges.”

They may discuss the long awaited connection of I-95 to Torresdale Avenue.  It’s only been on the drawing board since the 1960s.  We’ll see.

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Frankford Business and Professional Association

Jon Campisi, of the Northeast Times, reports this week on the most recent meeting of the Frankford Business and Professional Association.  The subject of the revitalization of the business corridor was discussed extensively. 

The group discussed using ideas in a report by the Urban land Institure (Ten Principles for Rebuilding Neighborhood Retail) as a starting point.  While it may seem like we have been down this road before, this is a new group of people very focussed on success.  Do not fall into that old comfortable cynicism that makes it easier to sit back and do nothing. 

Read the entire article from the Northeast Times here and also the report by the Urban Land Institute here.

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William H. Sliker Photo and Arts Studio

The Norteast Times this week has another facinating (to me anyway) story on Northeast history.  The subject is the William H. Sliker Photo and Arts Studio in Bridesburg.  It is more personal to me because I grew up living on the opposite side of the street from the studio and remember the comings and goings of the studio very well.

The story is authored by Dr. Harry C. Silcox and Jack McCarthy of the Frankford Historical Society.  It is thanks to Sliker that we have so many views of Frankford and the Northeast surviving today.  These photographs were printed on postcards and offered for sale all throuthout the Northeast.  Back in that day when the telephone was rare it was at all unusual for people to send postcards the way we might call someone today.  To say, hey I got home ok or I’ll be coming to see you next month.  Many of them for sale on ebay still have those interesting messages

This is a Sliker image of the old police station and fire house in Frankford.  The fire house is now the Police Athletic League building.  They were a bit casual about the captions for their pictures and wrote them on the original negative in india ink which when printed came out white on the print.
Read the entire story here.

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Frankford Crime Map

Thanks to the Northeast Times, who is publishing the crime log every other week, we have been able to update the map and now have data for the past 6 weeks. This is a link to the map. It is interesting, to say the least. Better to be informed and know what we are up against. The police will say that statistics show a decline in most crime and that may be the case. To me it seems to be spreading to areas that we did not previously find it. No corner of Frankford is immune. We are all in this together and solutions are needed now.