Article: The Philadelphia Inquirer Table Talk column: Inn ready to roll out at old Trolley Stop site in Skippack.(Column)

Article: Northern Liberties, then, now and forever: A glossy guide aims to be a keeper, and to raise money through ads to strengthen the neighborhood.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  October 24, 2006 ;     661 words ......block of North American Street in Northern Liberties. Back then Upin, 58, was part of...called them hippies -- and for years Northern Liberties remained a tightly knit village of...multi-unit condominiums rising throughout Northern Liberties and the population expanding, those...

Article: A Neighborhood Watched; Home invasions, armed robberies and car break-ins plague Northern Liberties.
Philadelphia Weekly;  August 31, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Hong Chen bought a fixer-upper in Northern Liberties for $30,000. Over the next five years...in December. But after living in Northern Liberties for just nine months, Gardner and...years developers have swooped down on Northern Liberties, and transformed abandoned factories...

Article: Fear and Loathing in Northern Liberties; Could a spate of nasty muggings pop the real estate bubble in the city's hottest neighborhood?
Philadelphia Weekly;  April 30, 2003 ;     700+ words ......heading north on Fourth Street in Northern Liberties on a sunny April Sunday as the final...April Sunday. Rodgers, who moved to Northern Liberties two years ago, is fairly typical...Starting in late March, nine people in Northern Liberties had been beaten unconscious with...

Article: Let Them Eat....Beefcake? A neighborhood comes together over chest hair.
Philadelphia Weekly;  September 18, 2002 ;     465 words ......soon-to-be-published 2003 "Men of Northern Liberties" calendar that stars Ortiz, Schoolly...teaches English at Temple. Fellow Northern Liberties resident Maureen Wellner snapped...way, are totally nude. The "Men of Northern Liberties 2003 Shirtless 'Beefcake' Fundraising...

Article: High Rents, Big Plans Come to Philadelphia Neighborhood.
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  August 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Linda K. Harris Aug. 13--Northern Liberties, the perennial Next Hot Neighborhood...few years ago would have lived in Northern Liberties, the neighborhood that stretches...head of the zoning committee for the Northern Liberties Neighbors Association, said rents...

Article: The Second Coming of Bart Blatstein
Philadelphia Weekly;  October 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ......be determined by what happens in Northern Liberties. As business breakfasts go, this...The then-executive director of the Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association (NLNA) brought...much drama. It's Oct. 6, and the Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association is watching...

Article: Brownfield Blues; Northern Liberties residents demand Tower Investments share information about cleaning up environmental contamination at the former Schmidt's Brewery site.
Philadelphia Weekly;  September 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Brewery site at Second and Girard in Northern Liberties just after midnight on June 26, 2002...slapped the owner of the property, Northern Liberties Development Inc., with seven violations...L&I notice, the agency cited Northern Liberties Development Inc. with allowing ...

Article: Community Chest
Philadelphia Weekly;  December 20, 2006 ;     700+ words ...NEIGHBORHOODS A new Northern Liberties bank tries to reinvent an...the perfect neighborhood. "Northern Liberties has progressed tremendously...Matisoff hopes to appeal to both Northern Liberties' older residents and to the...

Article: Developers Promise Prize Waterfront, With a Pool and a Park
Jewish Exponent;  October 23, 2003 ;     616 words ......a primarily industrial section of Northern Liberties. "This parcel of land ranks among...City, into neighborhoods such as Northern Liberties and Queen Village. Most of that development...Noyes, executive director of the Northern Liberties Neighbors Association. "There is...

Article: Activist heeds another calling.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  June 25, 2001 ;     700+ words ......director of the civic association in Northern Liberties, an up-and-coming neighborhood in...seminary. Her resignation from the Northern Liberties Neighbors Association, at which she...visible, more of an administrator. Northern Liberties, which runs from Spring Garden Street...

Article: Zoning board decision leaves strip-club plans out in the cold: A developer's proposal for an adult cabaret near Old City and Northern Liberties was denied.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  May 11, 2006 ;     514 words ......owns on North Sixth Street between Northern Liberties and Old City. The zoning board's...said Matt Ruben, president of the Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association. Hanson...led by Ruben and other residents of Northern Liberties and Old City, argued that times had...

Article: Setting down roots.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  October 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ......organizers hope will be a landmark for the Northern Liberties revival. Among the bank's investors...what Matisoff calls the funkiness of Northern Liberties. Not that Hyperion plans to restrict...most of the money is. Still, the Northern Liberties base -- and the lack of heavy ...

Article: Digging Up District's Past; A Neighborhood Of Diversity Being Unearthed in Shaw
The Washington Post;  October 30, 1997 ;     700+ words ......opportunity to document the life of Northern Liberties, a neighborhood erased from the city...neighborhoods rather than save them. "If Northern Liberties had survived, it would have been...communities. That was the case with Northern Liberties, which dated to the 1840s. By the...

Article: The Space
Philadelphia Weekly;  July 8, 2003 ;     573 words ......Today, and Playboy). Neighborhood: Northern Liberties. Space: Three-story house. Jonathan...seriously. A master host, he's filled his Northern Liberties home with endless possibilities...me, that's the great thing about Northern Liberties." How he wound up here: "I was living...