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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia will temporarily shut down Kensington Avenue from East Orleans ... will just go into shelters for people living homeless. Others will just move." ...

A Kensington homeless encampment will be dismantled after the city of Philadelphia issued a 30 ... On Wednesday, May 8, Kensington Avenue from East Orleans Street to Allegheny Avenue will be ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Philadelphia's chief public safety director said the Parker administration's clearing of the homeless encampments along Kensington Avenue Wednesday morning was a "successful ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- An encampment along part of Kensington Avenue in the Kensington section of Philadelphia was cleared out on Wednesday morning, but the question remains: what happens now?

The encampment was dismantled after the City of Philadelphia issued a 30-day encampment resolution notice and posted signs in the area ahead of closing Kensington Avenue from East Orleans Street ...

Peacock's "Long Bright River" takes place in Philadelphia's Kensington, a low-income neighborhood that has been devastated by ...

UPDATE 8:34 p.m.: Philadelphia police dismantled ... City officials will clear a homeless encampment along a two-block stretch on Kensington Avenue on Wednesday. Kensington Avenue will be ...

Across Kensington Avenue and other areas of Philadelphia with high rates of ... that around 15% of the people in the area are truly homeless. The others are homeless addicted, wherein they are ...

A man and woman shared food from a styrofoam container Wednesday morning as they sat on the sidewalk of Kensington ... at a city homeless shelter at 2100 W. Girard Ave. with plans to connect ...

Unlike the distance I’d felt in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh’s not-quite-midwestern coziness seemed to bubble up wherever it ...

This week, police and outreach workers cleared a homeless encampment on Kensington Avenue. City Councilmember ... as well as our school system.” Philadelphia City Council holds several public ...