IF you were in charge, how would you change your neighborhood.

                  If I could charge my neighborhood I would charge everything such like the drugs use the shooting and killing in the kensington neighborhood.

Find at least five news articles on your neighborhood, good and bad

               

Kensington: After-School Program Allows For A Comeback In The Arts

An elementary school in Kensington John Moffet has started an after school program.Moffet has been able to maintain an after-school program that focuses on enriching students through art and music education.

In Kensington, the drug trade tells a tale of two neighborhoods

The ones who got into the game in their teenage years, served a few stints in prison, and by some statistical miracle survived to age 30 or 40, still working in the only trade they know — they try to keep the beef to a minimum. Gunshots are bad for business.

Kensington: Local Gardens Cultivate Community, Help Revitalize Neighborhoods

It was in the 1970s when drug use and the violent state of the neighborhood spurred a unique change among a small group of Puerto Rican women in West Kensington.

Philly's Cop-Free Heroin Zone

the biggest ever to flock to this well-known drug corner. The city’s unrelenting heat wave has left them worse for wear, their exposed skin coated in a glaze of sweat, their tank tops and shorts smeared with street grime.

Explain the negatives of your neighborhood

     Most of Kensington is severely drug infested. I mean there is needles and other drug related items littered on the ground. It is littered with trash. There are prostitutes always under the el train at night.

Explain the positives of your neighborhood.

      Rentals grew by 13 percent. Vacant lots are being cleaned up. The community is getting involved.

Give a brief history of your neighborhood

 

1. When did your neighborhood begin? 1732
2. What ethnicity first settled in your neighborhood? Irish
3. What types of your industries were in your neighborhood? Textile industry, Factories, Carpet making 
4. Has there been any change in the ethnicity of your neighborhood? When? Why? As of the 2010 Census Kensington was 38.9% Hispanic of any race, 37.4% non Hispanic white, 14.8% non Hispanic black, 6.2% Asian, and 2.7% . Deindustrialization eventually took its hold on the neighborhood in the 1950s, leading to a significant population loss, high unemployment, economic decline, and the abandoning of home.  Some sections of the neighborhood have been revitalized in recent years.

List all of your neighborhood schools.

 

1. Elementary Schools: Hackett,Horatio B
2. Middle Schools: Jones,John Paul
3. High Schools : Kensington HS for International Business

People who have been voted into office to represent you

1. US Representative:Robert Alan Beady
2. PA Senator:Christine M Tartaglione
3. PA Representative:Angel Cruz
4. Philadelphia District Council Member