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URL:https://laiphilly.org/events/point-breeze-past-present-and-future-with
 -ori-feibush-and-lily-reynolds/
SUMMARY:Point Breeze... Past\, Present\, and Future with Ori Feibush and Li
 ly Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:The speakers at our December meeting discussed the re-developin
 g Point Breeze neighborhood. While Kensington was once the manufacturing h
 ub of Philadelphia during the City’s manufacturing heyday\, Point Breeze
  has long been a residential neighborhood\, first settled by working-class
  European Jewish immigrants\, followed by Italian and Irish immigrants\, a
 nd then\, in the 1930s\, by African Americans migrating from the Jim Crow 
 South. However\, in the 1960s\, the neighborhood began to face a number of
  challenges\, including civil strife\, followed by the heroin epidemic\, a
 nd then\, in the 1990s\, the crack epidemic. Revitalization efforts\, howe
 ver\, also began in the 1990s through the efforts of South Philadelphia HO
 MES and Universal Companies.\n\nMore recently\, Ori Feibush\, one of our s
 peakers\, has participated in the revitalization efforts in Point Breeze\,
  including along the Washington Avenue and Broad Street corridors. And now
 \, in an effort to make the neighborhood’s major thoroughfare more bicyc
 le and pedestrian family\, the City of Philadelphia has unveiled plans to 
 reconfigure Washington Avenue\, as noted in this presentation linked here 
 by our other speaker\, Lily Reynolds.
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