Hunting Park Avenue is not in Frankford. Never has been.

See there’s this thing called the Frankford Creek. It’s a blue squiggly line on the map that separates the southern portion of Northeast Philadelphia from the rest of the city. And Hunting Park Avenue is on the not-Northeast side of the Creek.

One could therefore deduce that Hunting Park Avenue is not in Frankford. Unless one works for the Daily News. continue reading »

We get it, Daily News. You don’t own an updated map and you don’t send reporters to the Northeast unless someone commits a crime or gets elected to office.

So allow us to explain, then, that Burholme is absolutely not in the Far Northeast (Far should be capitalized, by the way; it isn’t in your story).

The Far Northeast begins along Grant Avenue, north of the Northeast Airport. Burholme begins at Tyson Avenue which is roughly three miles south. continue reading »

Police are looking for carjacking/robbery suspects in the 15th District around Northwood and Juniata.

Meanwhile, the Daily News is looking for Crescentville.

Just before 5 a.m. Sunday, two males fled the Wawa at Castor and Wyoming with items from driver they tried to carjack.

That Wawa is in the 15th District near the Northwood/Juniata border, as resident Mike Ferris pointed out.

The Daily News says the cops are looking for suspects in a Crescentville crime. That’s way across Roosevelt Boulevard and in a different police district  and a different ZIP code. continue reading »

Holmeburg, Holme Circle and Burholme are all derivatives of some sort of the Holme family of Philadelphia. They’re all also different neighborhoods in the Northeast, which has proven a difficult fact for Philadelphia’s larger media outlets to navigate around.

So when the Daily News picked up on the Holme Avenue Bridge closure story this week, it wasn’t too surprising when the neighborhood was called Holmesburg. Not a very helpful report from the Help Desk.

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Take  a look at 4625, 6420 and 6855 Frankford Avenue. Do any of those addresses look like Kensington to you?

Didn’t think so. Kensington is about a mile away from the southern-most of the aforementioned addresses. So imagine our smirks when we saw the Daily News run this: continue reading »

The process was simple: reporters from the Daily News went to each of the 21 police districts in the city and asked to file and anonymous complaint — as is the department’s policy.

Not all the districts were compliant, and some were downright aggressive in requesting ID, but the four districts in the Northeast turned in positive reports. continue reading »

Here’s a summary of the week’s Northeast news we didn’t cover. See others here.

The Philadelphia Police Department’s Northeast Detectives Division is seeking the public’s help in locating its most-wanted suspects in connection with crimes linked to the Northeast. Call 215-686-3153 to report information about any of the suspects.

Keep reading for an update on a bank robber helped caught by Daily News readers, vandalism at Nifty Fifty’s and more. continue reading »

By Shannon McDonald

The body of a man with two gunshot wounds was found Wednesday morning in Frankford. The victim, a Hispanic male believed to be in his mid-20s, was found in an alley between Margaret and Wilmot streets near Torresdale Avenue – an area neighbors say is a hotspot for drugs and crime.

No arrests have been made.

By Christopher Wink

Here’s a summary of the week’s Northeast news we didn’t cover. See others here.

The 22-year-old daughter in the alleged mother-daughter prostitution operation that advertised on the popular Craigslist Web site and was busted last fall has received a three-year probation sentence, the Daily News reported Wednesday. The woman, Tami Smith, and her now 39-year-old mother were caught soliciting an undercover police officer in a home they rented in Wissinoming, as CBS3 reported in October. continue reading »

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.