Broadway actor Vincent Jamal Hooper, currently starring as Simba in “The Lion King,” was among the tenants displaced last weekend after a 5-alarm fire at a Washington Heights apartment building.…
On Wednesday morning, more than 300 people lined a narrow street in Nicetown, waiting to pick up groceries in a parking lot. Some held the hands of young children in…
The City Council on Thursday endorsed Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s call for the state to pony up more money for childcare programs in the Big Apple — and laid out a…
The record-breaking federal government shutdown marked yet another impediment to scientific research efforts at the Wistar Institute this year. After a year in which federal research funding was thrown into…
A West Virginia coal miner was found dead inside a flooded mine on Thursday morning after a desperate five-day search, officials said. Steven Lipscomb, a 42-year-old Elkview native, died in…
It’s a tale of American independence not taught in schools. For centuries, the story of how a small community of Jews living in America and on a tiny Caribbean island…
Want to hold a parade, festival, or block party in Philadelphia? Be prepared to pay — sometimes tens of thousands of dollars — to cover police overtime, paramedics, and other…
A surefire way to get in the holiday spirit is to be whisked away to a place filled with twinkling lights, towering spruce trees, mugs of hot cider and cocoa,…
They help blind students learn to navigate the city. They empower autistic students to communicate their needs. They monitor the well-being of children with severe medical conditions. They are the…
Jacqueline Chapman was one of thousands of Pennsylvanians who received their federally funded food assistance late last week before the commonwealth paused payments as the Trump administration’s efforts to cease…
