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Article: Fighting for Kingsessing: residents feel frustrated in making rec center safer.(Kingsessing Recreation Center)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Byline: Robert Moran
May 1--Look around the Kingsessing Recreation Center and you can see the signs of an increasingly diverse neighborhood on the upswing.
While young blacks play basketball, young whites play softball. The sprawling grounds of the center and the sidewalks surrounding it are lined with 150 new trees. A colorful new playground is abuzz with children on sunny afternoons.
Take a closer look and it becomes clear that the neighborhood still suffers from crime and blight. Teens openly smoke marijuana on the picnic tables next to the playground. Drug paraphernalia is strewn about the grass and weeds. On the pavement, broken glass from ...