Charges have been filed against a Holme Circle man for the crash that critically injured a Temple University student.

Ivan Pauline of the 2900-block of Welsh Road is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, and reckless endangerment. continue reading »

Let us preface this by saying how great NEast Philly’s relationship with MURL is. For the past two semesters, we’ve had a total of six students from Temple University’s Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab working with us, exploring the region, and helping us cover the Northeast.

And while we love the idea of sending student journalists out to unfamiliar neighborhoods, this is the second time said students have included Fairhill in the Northeast. (Other infractions have included Fishtown and Port Richmond). continue reading »

During the tense six-game World Series, many residents of Northeast Philadelphia want to show their Phillies pride, but still have enough money to pay the bills.  Bargain shoppers found that the several Forman Mills stores in the area have Phillies championship merchandise at lower prices.  They have some very similar items found in other stores, like the Modell’s in Roosevelt Mall.

See video of some of the Northeast’s most popular sports retailers and their customers below. continue reading »

NEast Philly intern and Temple University student Christeen Vilbrun interviewed Mayfair Civic Association President Joe De Felice about the neighborhood’s latest undertaking: rebuilding the Mayfair Memorial Playground at Rowland Avenue and Vista Street. Video below. continue reading »

The backyard of Frankford resident Majorie Rivera's neighbors, where she says she's seen drug deals take place.

It was early afternoon on Feb. 28, 2009 when Frankford resident Marjorie Rivera got an unexpected scene. She was getting ready to celebrate her wedding anniversary with her husband when they noticed a moving van outside of their two-story home. That chilly February day would be the first time Rivera would learn that the house next door was being turned into a recovery home for men.

As a mother of two daughters and aunt of many nieces, Rivera panicked as the thought of living right next to a recovery home settled into her brain.

“I’m thinking, ‘Oh wow, I got problems. These are all men. Recovery home? Well that’s for drugs. And don’t courts usually send people to them? What if these guys did something?’ I don’t want that next door to me,” she said. continue reading »

Photo courtesy of Sean Supplee.

For the next few months, NEast Philly will welcome two new contributors to the site – Christeen Vilbrun and Sean Supplee. Christeen and Sean are students in Philadelphia Neighborhoods, Temple University’s senior journalism capstone class, and they’ve been assigned to explore the Northeast. From now until the end of the year, Christeen and Sean will be hitting the streets of the Northeast to find stories. Their work will be a great addition to NEast Philly, as they explore our corner of the city from an outsider’s perspective. This is the first of many stories and videos from Christeen and Sean. You can also see this story at Philadelphia Neighborhoods.

For more than 100 years Pennypack Park has provided Philadelphians with a place to do numerous activities. One can walk, jog, roller blade, play a game of baseball or simply just relax and enjoy nature. The park, which covers almost 1,400 acres, is part of the Fairmount Park system. It is one of the most popular places in Philadelphia and provides excellent scenery for photographs and paintings.  Every month the park holds a recycling day. On this day, volunteers get together to clean the park and keep it a safe and visibly appealing place for people to enjoy. continue reading »

Christopher Wink

The Inquirer launched Student Union 34, an offshoot of Philly.com targeted at and produced by college students, on July 1. The site comprises 34 colleges in and around Philadelphia, with news, features and op-ed pieces from students with the help of some Inquirer editors.

The college education blog from the New York Times introduced the site to its readers, noting 34 has content from all the four-year schools of our region, including “lesser-known schools like Holy Family.” While a few of the bigger universities like Temple and Penn have students generating content, Holy Family University at Grant Avenue and Academy Road, is also on the list.

But that doesn’t mean anyone is representing the college by writing under the Holy Family mantle.

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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.

By Shannon McDonald

Those Temple students are at it again. It’s week one of Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab’s summer session, so the students are out in the neighborhoods.

Team 9 was assigned to Fishtown, which, by their calculation, is in the Northeast. Even Fishtown natives will tell you they don’t live in the NEast, but we’ll cut the MURL students some slack, as it’s their first week out. To the school’s credit, at least Temple is teaching its students about Philadelphia.

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.

By Shannon McDonald

Those MURL kids are at it again. A  post on Temple University’s senior journalism class blog places Abby Auto of Frankford in Port Richmond. The lede of the post reads,

Mohammed Alkurid, 47, was sitting in his office at Abby Auto Shop, located at 4608 Torresdale Ave. in Port Richmond on Sunday afternoon when he heard a loud bang.

The address given in the post is at Torresdale and Orthodox, unarguably in Frankford. Torresdale turns into Erie at Kensington Ave., and veers slightly west, in the opposite direction of Port Richmond.

Geographical error aside, author Lydie Miller wrote a great story. But more importantly, how did MURL’s Port Richmond team end up in the farthest reaches of Frankford?

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.

By Shannon McDonald

The latest installment of Right NEast/Wrong NEast comes to us from MURL, Temple University’s senior journalism class.

In a post about North Philly’s Fairhill neighborhood on MURL’s blog, one student writes:

The people who inhabit this area around 5th street and Lehigh avenue in Northeast Philadelphia are as proud of their Latino heritage as anyone you will find.

Granted, these are student journalists from all over who’ve been assigned to cover neighborhoods they’re completely unfamiliar with. That being said, this is a pretty big oversight that even a quick visit to Google Maps could have corrected.

We’ll call it a learning experience.