500 scoops of cool, sweet water ice cheer hospital workers at Penn
West Philly staple Siddiq's brought enough for maintenance staff and patients, too.
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Siddiq’s Water Ice brightens West Philly’s troubled 60th Street corridor
Community leaders came out to toast the launch of the flagship frozen treat shop.
Sellers market: Philly’s spring 2017 real estate scene is cutthroat
Escalation clauses, all-cash offers and other new features from buys in suddenly hot 'hoods: “Twenty-four hours in this market is an eternity.”
Who even voted for Jill Stein in Philadelphia? Yep, millennials
She did about twice as well as expected in Fishtown, Cedar Park, East Passyunk and Pennsport.