A 52-year-old construction worker fell to his death yesterday morning near the Globe Dye Works complex in Frankford.

The man, whose identity and hometown were not disclosed by police, was working on a roof, through which he fell on the 4500-block of Worth Street.

It’s the same block that has seen heavy development to the 11-building campus that was once the home to a fifth-generation textile manufacturing plant and has now been re-purposed for mixed-use residential and commercial space.

NEast Philly could not independently confirm that the worker was with the Globe Dye Works project.

Police believe the robber who targeted a Frankford 7-Eleven Friday morning is the same man responsible for robbing several other stores in December.

The 7-Eleven on the 5200-block of Harbison Avenue was robbed around 12:45 a.m. Friday, and the description — a white man in his 20s — matches that of a suspect wanted for at least seven 7-Eleven robberies late last year.

We don’t see too many of these, but when they come up, our editors can practically feel Northeast residents collectively slapping their foreheads in frustration.

In a story about a car accident that resulted in the death of a teenager Sunday, FOX29 made the simplest — and biggest — of our Right NEast/Wrong NEast mistakes: the reporter confused a neighborhood with a street. In other words, the writer assumed that because the car accident took place on Torresdale Avenue, that it also happened in the Torresdale neighborhood.

Except the accident occurred in Frankford. Not only is that an entirely different neighborhood, but it’s on pretty much the opposite side of the region as Torresdale. Frankford is the southern-most neighborhood in the Northeast, while Torresdale runs straight into the Bucks County border.

Thanks for taking the time to cover this, FOX, even if the most basic aspect of the story is inaccurate.

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 Philly 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.

An 18-year-old died early Sunday morning when the driver of an SUV carrying three people drove into the back of a flatbed truck.

The accident, which happened around 5:30 a.m. on the 4200-block of Torresdale Avenue in Frankford, sent a 24-year-old female and a 17-year-old male to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. They were later released.

Rescuers worked for 45 minutes to free 18-year-old Francis Mole of the 4900-block of Cottage Street, but Mole died of his injuries. Police say no one in the SUV was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident.

District Attorney Seth Williams addresses the Frankford Civic Association meeting Thursday, March 4, 2010 inside Frankford Hospital. Image from Frankford Gazette

District Attorney Seth Williams will assign his assistant district attorneys to specific geographic areas to increase accountability and familiarity, according to his presentation at Thursday night’s Frankford Civic Association meeting, as reported by the Frankford Gazette.

The meeting also featured a series of updates from City Councilwoman Maria Sanchez’s office, including her hesitance to support Mayor Nutter’s proposed “soda tax.”

See video of Williams and other updates from Jimmy Smiley at the Gazette.

Photo courtesy of CBS3.

The driver of an ATV died Sunday night after being hit by an SUV.

Police say the ATV was traveling northbound on Torresdale Avenue around 7:30 when the driver cut in front of an SUV around Kinsey Street in Frankford [map].

The ATV driver was pronounced dead at the scene, and his 25-year-old female passenger was rushed to Temple University hospital. Both riders were ejected from the vehicle, and the driver landed on the windshield of the GMC Envoy.

No on in the SUV was injured, but the driver was taken into custody on suspicion of driving under the influence.

Updated (Feb. 24) — The boy underwent surgery, and will not lose his arm, as doctors originally feared. One of the two dogs involved in the attack has been found.

A Frankford boy is in critical but stable condition after being attacked by a pitbull yesterday morning.

The 10-year-old boy was bitten on his arms and legs in a field on the 1900-block of Wakeling Street Sunday morning. He was taken to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. Reports say the boy is in custody of his grandfather, and the dog belongs to a neighbor. It’s unclear if the dog is still in its owner’s possession.

A 40-year-old woman was killed in Frankford Tuesday night by a jealous boyfriend who suspected her of cheating.

Linda Ellison was shot in the chest by her boyfriend David Bowen in his home on the 1100-block of Overington Street. According to reports, Bowen called a coworker of Ellison after the shooting, and the coworker then called 911.

Bowen, 49 has been arrested.

The Frankford Special Services District held a public meeting last Monday, Feb. 1, which included board member elections, and neighborhood discussions about Welfare to Work, public trashcans ongoing plans for area businesses.

The Frankford Gazette has the full story with video.

State Rep. Tony Payton at the February Frankford Civic meeting.

It has become something of a tradition at Frankford Civic Association meetings in the past year.

The first 15 or 20 minutes of the meetings, held in a conference room on the second floor of the old Frankford Hospital, are devoted to typical zoning issues, event announcements and new community concerns. Then something changes.

The meeting becomes more of a conversation and the topic is always the same: recovery homes.

True to form, it happened again Thursday night. Only three or four residents were in attendance, outnumbered by media and legislative aides and almost doubled by the association’s executive board, but the conversation was no less lively.

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