
Kevin Riordan
Writer at Freelance
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2 weeks ago |
inquirer.com | Tom Fitzgerald |Kevin Riordan
Imagine South Street, a longtime cradle of creativity, buried under concrete like the Vine Street Expressway. It almost happened. Today, the Vine is sunken below grade, a stub of a freeway. Parking lots front blocks above, the thrum of vehicles is constant, and the air reeks of exhaust. On the east end, ramps to I-95 and the Ben Franklin Bridge and speeding cars on surface streets menace pedestrians.
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1 month ago |
inquirer.com | Kevin Riordan
The Friends Enrichment Program began in the late 1990s with an in-line skating class for kids in a Moorestown parking lot. But the program’s roots were grown in 1940s Montreal, where a wealthy French Canadian girl and some of her Catholic school classmates collected donations from tavern patrons to buy winter coal for needy families. “Sow love, reap love” is FEP’s slogan. “After the war I saw legless [veterans] sitting on mats on the ground in downtown Montreal,” said Monique Begg, 93.
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1 month ago |
inquirer.com | Kevin Riordan
All that’s left of 2716 N. 12th St. in North Philadelphia are sun-bleached rectangles of plaster clinging to the party wall of an adjacent house that still stands. Traces of stairways, shelving, joists, and tilework overlook demolition sites in the city’s older neighborhoods — like illustrations for a story about depopulation, disinvestment, mass demolition, and loss. The story of a tenant named Elizabeth Cornog at 2716 N.
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1 month ago |
inquirer.com | Kevin Riordan
Joel Spivak, 85, a free-spirited carpenter and artist known for his quirky, scholarly passion for all things Philadelphia, died Monday, April 21, of heart failure at his home in the city’s Bella Vista neighborhood. Mr. Spivak was an authority on Philly trolleys, delis, soda fountains, and neighborhood traditions, including “rowhouse sports” such as half-ball.
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1 month ago |
miamiherald.com | Kevin Riordan
Off-price retailers tend to do well when the economy doesn't. That's good news for Burlington Stores, the nationwide off-price retailer founded in South Jersey. Burlington opened 100 new locations in 2024 and plans to continue that pace of expansion this year and beyond.
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