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Kids’ Fall Festival – Sunday, Nov 2
Liberty Lands Park from 1 to 5pm Moms! Dads! Mark your calendars! Attendance is FREE, with small donations requested for crafts. The festival will feature: Kids’ Costume Parade (by the stage at 1:45pm) Crafts Hayrides…
Read More »Important Zoning Meeting Oct. 24 – Neighborhood Remapping Workshop
THURSDAY – October 24 St. Michael’s Russian Orthodox Church (NE corner of 4th & Fairmount – one block west of the Northern Liberties Community Center) Should properties on your block be zoned residential, commercial, or industrial? For single-family…
Read More »Kids’ Fall Clothing Swap, October 20th
10am to 1pm at the Northern Liberty Community Center, 700 N. 3rd Street (N. 3rd & Fairmount) Come along and swap children’s clothes at this annual event! We are always looking for people to help with setting…
Read More »Property Tax Appeal Deadline TODAY
Latest Info on How to File Over the weekend we received new information on how you can file your property tax appeal with the Board of Revision of Taxes (BRT). Appeals are due Today, October 7. By Mail …
Read More »Property Tax Appeal: Deadline Oct. 7 – Info & Resources for Neighbors
Property Tax appeals are due in to the Board of Revision of Taxes (BRT) by October 7 (postmark deadline). You Have the Right to Appeal You can file a BRT appeal regardless of whether or not you filed a “first level review” request…
Read More »BOARD OF DIRECTORS MINUTES Meeting of September 10, 2013
PRESENT: Matt Ruben, President; Steve Richman, Treasurer; Janet Finegar, Secretary; Rick Angeli; Michael Coyne; Larry Freedman; Monika Kreidie; Katrina Mansfield; Sharon Richman; Chris Somers; Anne Waginger; Logan Welde. ABSENT: Don Phillips, Vice-President; Lystra Harris, Frank Robertson. ALSO PRESENT: …
Read More »Next Week’s Zoning Agendas – Sept 30 and Oct 1
SEPTEMBER 2013 — Zoning Agenda Location: NL Community Center, 700 N. 3rd Street (3rd & Fairmount) As always, the meetings are public and all are welcome to attend and participate. Monday, September 30, 2013 6:30 start tonight!!…
Read More »Introducing: Project Clean Streets
With support of neighborhood businesses, the NLNA is excited to announce Project Clean Streets. The focus of the project is to help alleiviate our neighborhood litter and trash problems. This summer, we hired a small crew to sweep…
Read More »Property Tax Appeal Info at September NLNA General Meeting – Thurs, Sept 26
Thursday, September 26, 7pm St. Michael’s Church, 4th & Fairmount Property Tax appeals are due in to the Board of Revision of Taxes (BRT) by October 7. This is separate, and more official, than the earlier “first…
Read More »Crime Alert from the 26th District
The 26th District has identified a severe increase in Burglaries over the past few weeks. The main target has been new home construction but existing residential properties are being hit as well. The majority of the burglaries…
Read More »Building Collapse at Orianna and Girard on August 16th
Recently an empty building collapsed on the NW corner of this intersection. No one was hurt. This property is in the boundaries of our civic association colleagues at South Kensington Community Partners, but we are monitoring the…
Read More »Update: Traffic Control Study at 2nd & Laurel
Earlier this year, at an NLNA General Meeting, the Streets Dept. pledged to conduct a traffic study of this area, in response to numerous residents’ and businesses’ requests. In the months since then, the study has not…
Read More »July Flooding around Wildey and American Streets
Some neighbors experienced significant basement flooding from the heavy storm on July 23. To our knowledge, this was the first major storm-related flooding since 2004. How it happened: The stormwater drains became overloaded, and because the Delaware…
Read More »Regarding this Year’s 2nd Street Festival and Cleanup
This was another huge success, and we thank the local businesses who organized it, the Philadelphia Folksong Society, and all the vendors and NLNA volunteers. The NLNA is aware that 2nd St. was not fully cleaned up…
Read More »Brooklyn Flea Market – Sundays at the Piazza!
Sundays through the Summer from 10am-5pm The well-known “Brooklyn Flea,” a 100+ vendor flea market, craft sale, and food fair returns with FREE browsing! More info on the Brooklyn Flea’s Philly web page. …
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