Outside media don’t care about the Northeast. We have all seen them misuse, misspell and mistake our neighborhoods and our streets, so we at NEast mag wanted to do something about it. When they get it wrong, we set it right in a segment we like to call Right NEast/Wrong NEast.

This isn’t the first time a street/avenue confusion has happened. The Daily News will have to take all the blame for this one. In its coverage of the bus driver who was attacked by two teens on April 2, the paper lists Algon Avenue, the home of one of the accused teens, as Algon Street. A small mistake, but not an innocent one. It should be easy enough to find the proper name on a map. Despite the fact that larger publication ignore the Northeast, we do still appear on Philadelphia maps.

By Shannon McDonald

The two teens charged for the April 2 attack on a SEPTA bus driver are from the Northeast.

Estebon Santiago, 47 was attacked when he stopped his 124 bus at 12th and Market streets. The teens, whom he allowed to ride from King of Prussia while they searched for fare money, began beating Santiago after they refused to pay once the bus stopped in Center City.

Carlos Masip, 18 of Algon Avenue near Devereaux Avenue, turned himself into the 15th Police Distrisct at Harbsion Avenue and Levick Street Friday, after his accomplice was arrested. The second teen’s identitiy has not been released, as he is only 17, but he is from Anchor Street near Torresdale Avenue.

Updated: 5/5/09 10:16 p.m., added education and family details

By Christopher Wink

This Thursday, NEastPhilly.com is co-hosting with WHYY a panel discussion among the three Democratic candidates for city controller — incumbent Alan Butkovitz and challengers John Braxton and Brett Mandel. Butkovitz and Mandel both have ties to the NEast, so we sat down with each. The first came yesterday with Butkovitz, and today read our interview with Mandel.

Brett Mandel wants to be city controller enough that he is running against Alan Butkovitz, a high-profile incumbent in a citywide election that rarely garners citywide attention: city controller, charged with overseeing city government spending.

But the Rhawnhurst native says he has to, because Butkovitz is more about show than substance and the city, his city, is in worse shape because of it.

NEastPhilly.com interviewed both Mandel and his opponent Butkovitz and are sharing their interviews.  The incumbent went first – see our Q&A with Butkovitz here. See Mandel’s below.

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By Shannon McDonald

He’s been featured on Gawker and Street Talkin’, Philebrity loves to mess with him, and Country of Cretins make it its personal philosophy to mock him. But Arthur Kade doesn’t care.

He left his career as a successful financial planner to pursue his dream of acting, and Kade recently opened up to NEastPhilly.com about his life growing up in Rhawnhurst and how the Northeast has influenced his acting career.

NEAstPhilly.com: You mention predominantly on your site that you’re from Northeast Philadelphia. What neighborhood did you grow up in? Where did you go to school?
Arthur Kade: I grew up in Rhawnhurst on Algon and Borbeck, and went to Northeast High School. Class of ’96.

NP: Where do you live now? Do you still have ties to the Northeast?
AK: I live in Center City Philadelphia – Rittenhouse Square – and am constantly traveling to New York for acting work, and will be heading to LA each month to work with my acting coach.

Continue reading to find out how much Arthur made as a financial planner, see a picture of him as a teenager and some videos of him.

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