Happy Bear Coffee, with Carlino’s bites, coming to Philly’s Navy Yard
The Navy Yard is getting a coffee shop and wine bar as part of its redevelopment. Happy Bear Coffee Company is set to open its first physical location at the…
St. John’s Baptist Church at 13th and Tasker will be converted into apartments
Another former religious building is being redeveloped into apartments, with an assist from a law City Council passed in 2019 to preserve large, neighborhood scale historic buildings like churches. The…
New York State as weighed by the data
Last week, Gov. Hochul and her GOP challenger, Rep. Elise Stefanik, sparred over affordability in New York. To assess the Empire State’s level of affordability, they both turned to U.S.…
NYC needs a smarter transportation web
New York is a city built on movement. Every day, millions of us rush for buses, descend into subways, bike over bridges, or board ferries with the belief that the…
Amid City Hall tensions, Mayor Parker lobbies public support at churches across Philly for her H.O.M.E. initiative
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker traversed pulpits across West and North Philadelphia on Sunday, promoting her vision for her signature housing initiative that’s heightening tensions in City Hall. The 10-church circuit…
Spotify Wrapped season’s here once again. Here’s where to find your 2025 results.
It’s OK if you don’t want to admit how many times you listened to “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters — Spotify will tell us, anyway. Spotify Wrapped — the music…
Mamdani must use tech to tackle affordability
Zohran Mamdani’s unexpected rise was, above all else, due to New Yorkers’ deep concern that our city is headed towards becoming unaffordable. Whether our next mayor’s policies will help solve…
Don’t laugh: A humanities degree is a smart investment
As parents enter this fall’s college application season, they’ve likely been warning their children incessantly that a degree in art history or philosophy won’t pay the bills. “Study something practical,”…
How Delaware helped keep OpenAI from turning into a typical for-profit company
It’s been 10 years since OpenAI was set up as a nonprofit by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and other software developers and investors, friends, and rivals who didn’t quite trust…
The War On Drugs is bringing back ‘A Drugcember to Remember’
Once again, Philadelphia music fans can look forward to a Drugcember to remember. Next month, Philly rock band The War On Drugs will renew a tradition that has been on…