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& 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!
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The PSSS 2017 Historical Streets Restoration Program’s "Annual Update &
Review Meeting & Report"
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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
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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.
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