PSSS NEWS & LETTERS!
Mar 27, 2024: Request to restore more historic streets, particularly 200 block of Quince Street with "modified aggregate" foundation
Mar 17, 2020: WATCH PBS 39 Counter Culture's Grover Silcox talks with Paul Downs, NYTimes Blog and Cabinetmaker; Ed Eisen, Journalist, and Lynn Landes, Founder of Philadelphia Society of Small Streets. Skip to 19:30 for Lynn's interview.
Jan 21, 2019: Report on Dec 4, 2018 Meeting with Streets Department and Representatives of Historic Streets
Jan 21: 2019: Philip Street has been restored! Congratulations all around!
Apr 7, 2018: The “Historic Streets Restoration Program” 2018 Meeting Report
Mar 19, 2018 "HISTORIC STREETS RESTORATION MEETING" REPORT & SAMPLE LETTER (Full Agenda agenda)
Aug 31, 2017: Another American Street Mishap
Jun 20, 2017: American Street Mishap
Jun 28, 2017: Please End Plumbers' Patches!
The PSSS 2017 Historical Streets Restoration Program’s "Annual Update & Review Meeting & Report"
Information on Philly's LED Street Light Health & Safety Issues
Jan 21, 2016: PSSS Letter To Mayor Kenney re: snow removal on small streets
Jan 18, 2016: PSSS Letter to Mayor Kenney re: Philadelphia's Historic Restoration Program
Jun 5, 2015: PSSS Letter to Mayor Nutter re: Philip Street and the Historic Streets Restoration Program
Philip Street Residents' letters to Mayor Nutter & other city officials How much has Philip Street sunk? Allowing for a 4 inch curb, the street and curb on the east side has sunk from 8-12 inches (along with 50% of sidewalk), depending on the location. About 75% of the street appears to be affected, starting at the manhole cover at north end.
Jun 4, 2015: Urgent: Need to push restoration of Philip Street! (send letters to city and press contacts below)
May 16, 2015: Letter to residents of historic streets on PSSS Priority List
May 13, 2015 PSSS Response - PSSS Suggested Restoration Priority List
Apr 29, 2015: Street Department's Top Ten Streets featuring Google "Street Views"
Jan 5, 2015: The Historic Streets Assessment Report (very disappointing)
Oct 2010: JessupStreetReport.pdf - An October 2010 study by Milner + Carr Conservation, LLC, that Cliff and Lynn Landes commissioned prior to Jessup Street's restoration by the Streets Department. It contains a brief, but interesting history of street paving in Philadelphia.
MORE NEWS:
http://planphilly.com/eyesonthestreet/2014/05/20/historic-street-repair-pilot-program-starts-in-july
http://planphilly.com/articles/2012/07/09/look-down-historic-street-paving-thematic-district
Go to "Wood Streets" to find articles on Camac and wood streets elsewhere.
Go To Blue Streets to find article and list of Blue Streets
NY
Times: article about controversy over making historic streets safe for
pedestrians and bicycles --
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/30/nyregion/time-is-past-for-many-of-citys-old-cobblestones.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&