Spring Garden

After a two-week closure due to asbestos abatement, the Franklin Learning Center has reopened. But a few dozen parents and students are still insisting on more to be done. Read more here.

A contingent of Philadelphia students, parents and teachers is heading to Harrisburg Wednesday morning to rally against toxic schools. Coincidentally, this comes as a school in the city, for the fourth time this school year, has had to shut down because of asbestos. Read more here.

A yearlong detour started Wednesday morning in Spring Garden, as crews began construction on the 15th Street bridge. And as expected, it’s already wreaking havoc for drivers. Read more here.

A Philadelphia jury has convicted a man of second-degree murder in the shooting of two friends after spending a night out in the city’s Spring Garden neighborhood. The shooting was all over some necklaces. Read more here.

A yearlong detour is in store for drivers and walkers in Philadelphia's Spring Garden neighborhood, when the 15th Street bridges closes for reconstruction. Read more here.

Another brewery has opened in Philadelphia at Ninth and Spring Garden streets, but this one's mission goes way beyond the beer.

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The Made in America Festival is the marquee event in Philadelphia for Labor Day Weekend, but it also means street closures days in advance as crews prepare the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Thousands are expected to descend onto the Ben Franklin Parkway this weekend. It'...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Some creepy crawlies are causing a stir at a SEPTA stop in Northern Liberties. SEPTA says a few years ago, the outdoor platform for the Market Frankfort Line's Spring Garden stop was inundated with orb-weaver spiders and their webs. Since that time, SEPTA has been...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia Police are investigating anti-Israel graffiti that was found in SEPTA's Spring Garden station Tuesday morning. The graffiti was scrawled across five or six pillars and a maintenance door on one of the passenger waiting platforms. It included various...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A wind-fueled fire is now under control in the Spring Garden neighborhood. Fire crews took about an hour to extinguish the blaze, which started around 4 p.m. Flames could be seen from all sides of the building, leaping from the roof of a four-story brick building on...