Good luck everyone

Good luck finishing your projects

recent re-Development

Recent city redevelopment plan for Germantown area
Redeveloping Germantown is again a part of the city plans. Here is the plan, I will let you decide on its merits for yourselves.

MOBILIZING TO REVIVE GERMANTOWN AVE. AFTER YEARS OF STRUGGLE, ORGANIZERS OF THE EFFORT SAY THINGS ARE FINALLY STARTING TO HAPPEN IN THE COMMUNITY.
Fixing Germantown Ave, while keeping conscious of its historic significance.

Historic Burial Ground is Brought Back from the Dead
Although in North Philly, this project demonstrates the blending of historical preservation with taking back the neighborhood.

Others

Once choice areas falling to decay
Germantown's fortunes continue to decline rapidly in the 1980's-90's

Germantown youth club making waves
About the reinvigoration of the Boys and Girls Club of Germantown

Black Artists: Painted into a Corner? Some say Racism and Ignorance still Limit Options in the Galleries.
Is there Racism in Art galleries?

Germantown church balances mission with longevity
Recent article about a Germantown church, mentions suffering from economy

gangs/crime

GANG MEMBERS HEAD FOR POCONOS
Gangs in the northwest sent on retreat-read for problem of gangs in Germantown

6 shot in Germantown; Injures not serious
Germantown still isn't perfect, read this article and notice how mundane and non-sensational it reports the shootings, would have been different if they had occurred elsewhere in Philadelphia?

racism in art?

BLACK ARTISTS: PAINTED INTO A CORNER? SOME SAY RACISM AND IGNORANCE STILL LIMIT OPTIONS IN THE GALLERIES

urban archives photos

These photos are from the Urban Archives, previews are available online, e-mail the urban archives for high resolution copies

Ruby Cutts picks up litter around the Johnson House at the corner of Germantown Avenue and Washington Lane, which was once the home of a Quaker family and a stop on the Underground Railroad.


Once a town pump but no longer in use it stands at one corner of the old [Concord] school house.


Midway May market in Germantown

Oxford Street and Germantown Avenue in North Philadelphia. There is a street sign for Germantown Avenue and two pedestrians walking in front of the building. The smokestack on the building has the word "Gretz" painted on it. In image P089002 and African-American boy walks by a sign advertising Gretz Beer.

Slavery Protests

Germantown Anti-Slavery Protest

Article about the first anti slavery protest by quakers

Area residents mark slaves' freedom
House adopts Myers' Juneteenth resolution
Articles about Freedom Day (Juneteenth)