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 (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?

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 ...

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 ...

sweep the streets and curbs and pick up trash left behind by people who were homeless and living there, or passing through to buy and use drugs. The Philadelphia police installed barricades along ...

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 ...

The administration announced that it would remove homeless encampments Wednesday along two blocks, the 3000 and 3100 blocks of Kensington Avenue. mcerino@phillytrib.com 215-893-5700 ...

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 ...