
Posts tagged with Fairmount Park


Experience Fairmount Park’s cherry blossoms at a pop-up with food, drink, and fun

An art-filled exhibit on segregation and swimming is finally open at Fairmount Water Works
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Photo tribute to the Belmont Plateau sugar maple, felled after nearly a century in Fairmount Park

Día de los Muertos: Where the holiday came from and how to celebrate in Philadelphia

How racial profiling drove away Philly’s first heavyweight boxing champion

Ex-employees and ex-trustee accuse Please Touch Museum leadership of abusive culture

Cars will return to MLK Drive early August, with slimmed down traffic pattern

‘First of many’ protests over teardown of Philly’s only rec center for people with disabilities

Stealing Royal Paulownia trees used to be a thing people got arrested for in Fairmount Park

The best place in Philadelphia to see the summer solstice sunrise

Philly is closing the city’s only rec center designed for people with disabilities

Picnic among Philly’s cherry blossoms at Parks on Tap

What happened with the arrest at the Art Museum steps, and why tourists are so important to city leaders

Trailer truck sliced open on Kelly Drive shouldn’t have been there anyway

When the police watch your family picnic, none of the options are good

‘Safety, positivity and love’: Philly couple’s maternity photos go viral with message of hope

Art Museum’s ‘Oval’ to become permanent park, many other Philly public spaces advance

One tenth of a mile: What Philly looks like from above
