You are here

Philadelphia CityPaper: A decade of war in Philly's deadliest neighborhood

Philadelphia CityPaper did an incredible job with this enterprise piece on the long-standing violence in Philadelphia's Strawberry Mansion neighborhood. There have been 150 shootings and 30 murders in the last decade involving just three corners in the northwest part of that neighborhood--all stemming from one killing in October 2003.  "The street-corner killings that take many young black lives in Philadelphia are often manifestations of more complicated stories that few outside the neighborhood bother to interpret. This is one of those stories," CityPaper reports.