Kensington’s Somerset Station, managed by SEPTA and located on the Market-Frankford Line, will reopen on Monday, April 5 after two weeks of repairs and changes to improve safety and security, according to a SEPTA press release.

On March 23, Kensington residents, workers, and local leaders gathered at the then closed SEPTA Somerset Station to march up Kensington Avenue in protest of the closure…

City Councilman Mark Squilla had just delivered a rousing speech to Kensington residents protesting SEPTA’s surprise decision to close the Somerset El station for repairs when…

Over 200 people from Kensington-based community development corporations, nonprofits, civic associations and neighborhood residents marched last evening in protest of SEPTA’s decision to close the Market-Frankford Line (MFL) station at Somerset Street…

The temporary shutdown of the Market-Frankford Line stop has brought renewed attention to the plight facing the neighborhood that has for years been the face of Philadelphia’s opioid epidemic….

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Residents marched Tuesday night to protest the closing of the Market-Frankford El’s Somerset Station for cleanup and repairs. They call the stop a community lifeline.

On Tuesday night, hundreds gathered in Kensington to protest SEPTA’s decision to temporarily close the Somerset Station along the Market-Frankford Line.

Philadelphia, PA: Two Kensington-based community development organizations, Impact Services and New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC), are launching Connected Community: A Trauma Informed Community Engagement Toolkit to improve the quality and effectiveness of community-based work in neighborhoods that experience high levels of trauma.

A group of artists associated with Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods touted the social benefits of public art during a community panel discussion Tuesday night on Zoom.

Two years ago, three community service organizations in the Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods — the New Kensington CDC, Impact Services Corporation, and the Latino support organization HACE — collectively formed an initiative to reduce crime. It’s called We CAN — or Change and Action Now — and is designed to mobilize neighbors to address community concerns.

Philadelphia, PA: Two Kensington-based community development organizations, Impact Services and New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC), are launching Connected Community: A Trauma Informed Community Engagement Toolkit to improve the quality and effectiveness of community-based work in neighborhoods that experience high levels of trauma.

Think of all the unexpected phrases that defined the past year. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Social distancing. For Adriana Abizadeh, that list includes “highest and best use” — the phrase often uttered by real estate developers and urban planners as their end goal for every plot of land in a city.

Coordinating block clean ups, organizing food drives, fundraising, and building community gardens are just a few of the ways Impact Services’ community connectors show up for their neighbors and build trust in Kensington…

JPMorgan Chase announced an investment of $530,000 to the Kensington Lending Partnership (KLP) to aid in their support of small businesses impacted by the economic recession and COVID-19 pandemic…

Just a few steps from the Tioga El station in Kensington, where wraith-like drug users bob and sway in front of vacant storefronts, J Street has been remade, as if for a movie set…

Preservation should be community-driven and focused on people, according to the report, but too often it is dictated by outside forces…

The federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has reopened applications for eligible businesses. Businesses that did not receive a PPP loan last year ("First Draw" businesses) are eligible to apply if they have 0-500 employees.

Anyone who has ever applied for federal or state benefits programs knows that it can try one’s patience. Experience with government websites can make you dizzy and interacting with overworked staff in government bureaucracies can leave you in despair.

The news comes a little more than a year after it paused grant-making for the foundation, which has handed out more than 100 multi-year grants for a combined $100 million over the past 22 years.

The city says it clears encampments using a national model. Critics describe “squeezing a balloon” — moving people around without addressing root causes.

Two of the country’s most prominent urban thinkers have teamed up to offer Philly a bold plan for inclusive and resilient recovery from Covid-19. Could a $250 million “Philadelphia Regeneration Fund” be in our future?

Michael DonPailin lives and works in Kensington. As part of his job with the area nonprofit Impact Services, he supervises street cleaning in the neighborhood. “This is the bottom of the barrel — there’s no part of the city that looks as bad as Kensington,” he said.