Philadelphia on Monday plans to temporarily shut down a stretch of Kensington Avenue — a street known worldwide as an open-air drug market — to clear out homeless encampments. Kensington has for years ...

Gloria Cartagena Hart vividly remembers the scenes and sounds of her Kensington block just three years ago: The streets filled with trash. The sidewalks lined with dozens of people openly using drugs.

Philadelphia police will send 75 foot patrol officers into Kensington next week to start the second phase of the city's plan to address quality of life concerns related to high levels of violence, ...

The tents have been removed, debris cleared out, but people who are homeless and dealing with substance use or mental illness are still living on the streets around Philadelphia’s Kensington ...

As Philadelphia plans a clean-up of a neighborhood that’s home to the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast, questions are emerging about whether the tough-on-crime talk by the city’s ...

Dozens of new police officers graduated from the Philadelphia Police Academy on Monday and their first duty will be to hit the streets of Kensington as part of the push to improve the city's poorest ...

This story was originally published by Kensington Voice, a fellow member of the Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative. Sign up for Kensington Voice’s newsletters here. Thomas Bradley approached the ...