Apr 26, 2017 · Skid Row was also in Philadelphia’s rooming house district. After the initial wave of upper-class flight to the streetcar suburbs in the late 19th century, this area’s housing stock was subdivided and became attractive to both workingmen and white collar workers of both genders.

Philadelphia’s Skid Row: Shocking video captures city’s homeless crisis with dozens camped out along ‘largest open-air drug market on the East Coast’ The video looks like a scene from an apocalyptic movie – dozens of disheveled people shivering in the middle of a winter night as they camp out around a trash bin on fire among a street ...

Mar 17, 2021 · Horrific footage from last Wednesday shows purported drug addicts on Kensington Avenue in northeast Philadelphia - the part of town known as the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast.

Apr 26, 2021 · Philadelphia’s Skid Row was located between Arch and Callowhill Streets and 5th and 12th Streets—deep in the Third District and mostly in what was then the 10th Ward. In the 1950s this was an enclave of seedy bars, flophouse hotels, religious missions, and other commerce catering to about 3,000 homeless men.

Philadelphia once had a highly visible skid row centered on Vine Street, just west of the approaches to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. This area was essentially obliterated by highway construction starting in the 1970s.

Public health scholar Steve Metraux exhumes the heart of Philadelphia’s Skid Row, buried under the Vine Street Expressway by the hands of urban renewal. Callowhill Street is now a two-way from 2nd Street to Columbus Boulevard, changing the one-way east-heading regulation that has been in place since I-95 was built.

Apr 13, 2021 · Homeless men lie on the sidewalk while others wearing blankets and rags loiter on a street strewn with garbage, feces, and drug paraphernalia along the notorious Kensington Avenue drag in...

When a traveler sees a tree-filled square with hundreds of men reclining on park benches or lined up for soup and salvation across the street then he has arrived in Philadelphia. The Health and Welfare Council (HWC) opened their 1952 report “What About Philadelphia’s Skid Row?” with this vignette of a motorist’s first impression of Philadelphia.

Mar 18, 2021 · The Kensington section of Philadelphia, where anyone can buy a lethal dose of fentanyl-laced heroin for $5 a bag, has been known locally as the ‘ground zero’ of America’s opioid epidemic, Philadelphia Magazine reported.

Apr 23, 2017 · Philly's Skid Row has been an obsession for me lately, and when I found it I was trying to piece together what the main drag of Skid Row looked like for an article I was writing for Hidden City Philadelphia. I instantly recognized the location of this photo from the names of the storefronts as being a piece of Vine Street between 8th and 9th ...