Please be generous to others in need!! On the West Side: The People's Fridge 511 South 52nd Street Instagram: @thefridgeon52nd Email: THEPEOPLESFRIDGE@GMAIL.COM DONATIONS: VENMO @THEPEOPLESFRIDGE215 For perishable items. (Remember to close the door when you are through.) On the East Side: Baltimore Avenue Free Community Pantry in front of Spruce Hill Provisions, 4529 Baltimore Avenue. For non-perishable items. (The previous wooden pantry cabinet, a Bar Mitzvah project of t

Good morning All, This Thursday, March 31st, 2022 is the 18th Police District Town Hall meeting. Please feel free to share this invite with your neighbors on your block. Please write down your concerns and the topics that you would like to address during this meeting. We hope to see every on Thursday. Thank you. Topic: 18th District Philadelphia Police Department Town Hall Time: Mar 31, 2022 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j

That's right: FREE CAMERA and INSTALLATION for Tenants occupying residential zoned property, Property Owners, and Tenant business leasing commercial zoned property in all of West Philadelphia. Take advantage of this limited opportunity from West Philadelphia Corridor Collaborative: Click on the button below for more info. Apply before funds are exhausted at www.westphillycc.org We are grateful to Captain Nicole W. McCoy, Commanding Officer of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusio

Congratulations to Garden Court Neighborhood Winners at the University City Historical Society's 2022 Valentine Tea and Awards Ceremony: Bilal Ezzeddine and Salma Khan, 4827 Hazel Avenue Vivian Gadsden and Lindsay Johnston, 400 South 46th Street Susanna Greenberg and Joshua McNeil, 430 South 46th Street Watch the well done 42 minute youtube video showing all the homes of the 2022 winners:

March 19th Deadline

Garden Court Community Association has a regularly scheduled Zoning and Development Committee meeting at 8pm on Wednesday, March 9th. We are still meeting virtually, via Zoom; log-in detail are at the bottom of this post. Meeting Agenda: 1. Zoning cases: None 2. Report: any status updates for ongoing projects of significance 3. Report: December Garden Court real estate activity - permits issued, home sales, and apartment rentals Public Comment Committee Working Session (close

For close to a decade, the Education Committee (EC) of the Garden Court Community Association (GCCA) provided volunteer tutors to the Henry C. Lea School at 47th and Spruce Street. Its focus was new readers who had fallen behind their peers. For two decades, the EC held an annual Book Choosing event, also for new readers. Since the pandemic began, the EC has not been able to offer in-person literacy support to Lea’s students. When COVID subsides, it looks forward to seeing t