A 23-year-old man was shot and wounded on Wednesday night when a large fight broke out on the 3900 block of Market Street, according to police (media reports say it was near 39th and Ludlow). Gunfire was heard shortly after 11 p.m. when someone fired into a crowd of people, striking the victim in the buttocks. He was transported to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and later released after a surgery.
Police told 6ABC that a group of women got into an argument and then several men got involved in the fight. That’s when the shots were fired. Police say the shooter is a black male, approximately 25-27 year old. Police say they have some videos from the scene.
August 26th, 2016 at 1:28 pm
That housing project is a huge impediment to the growth of the 40th St corridor. Does anyone know how the city obtained that parcel? Let’s face it…once they have their hands on property like that, they won’t let go. It reminds me the McD’s at 40t and Walnut.
August 26th, 2016 at 1:42 pm
The affordable housing on the 3900 block of Market was created as part of the agreement for the eminent domaining of the Black Bottom to create the Science Center.
Source: Becoming Penn by John L. Puckett and Mark Frazier Lloyd
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A book worth reading if one wishes to avoid ignorant comments in the future.
August 26th, 2016 at 5:58 pm
Pray tell, what about my comments would you deem “ignorant,” as in lacking information? I actually asked why there is a housing project at 40th and Market, a de facto gateway to University City. It does not belong there and sticks out like a sore thumb. The housing is in terrible shape…broken windows, rotting roofs, etc. And gun fire at 11pm on a weeknight? Someone shooting into a crowd of people? Is that really what we want in an area filled with pedestrians making their way to and from the 40th St station? Until that area is razed, the 40th St corridor will remain blighted.
August 27th, 2016 at 1:20 pm
So the poor people are an impediment to more overpriced development and junk food restaurants? You just want to bulldoze them, not caring where they go and what they can afford after losing their public housing?? The projects were built after an ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD was destroyed and people displaced to build the ugly science center. Your mentality is a huge huge problem. Hopefully one day you will develop a little empathy.
August 27th, 2016 at 3:24 pm
I came here for the racist comments. Was not disappointed.
August 27th, 2016 at 9:01 pm
To answer your question “angry”, yes. That housing “development” is an impediment. It’s terrible. It doesn’t serve the people who live in it.
Level it. Keeping it doesn’t help anyone. This isn’t a matter of empathy, it’s a matter of your guilt continuously holding people back.
August 28th, 2016 at 11:10 am
So if it’s an impediment as you say, will it be replaced by new low income housing? Very doubtful. More likely “luxury” something or other that will not help the people who currently live there.
August 28th, 2016 at 11:15 pm
Housing projects are basically minimum-security detention facilities. A low income development could be built on the same space with more security and better living conditions.
August 29th, 2016 at 9:32 am
That would be fine. But I doubt that the people who want to get rid of it would like to replace it with low-income housing.
August 29th, 2016 at 11:16 am
WPL should disable comments from their stories.. You people are just the absolute worst..
August 29th, 2016 at 9:15 pm
Alright North West, while these comments have definitely stepped into uncomfortable topics, they are nowhere near as offensive as those on philly.com. What we are having here is a discussion on a housing project designed to place local residents who were displaced decades ago by the expansion of Penn and Drexel into an area that was already fully developed and inhabited. At the same time we should acknowledge that this housing is deteriorating and a small percentage of the current residents are engaging in crime. Having said that, let’s have a discussion about the largely unoccupied storefronts on 40th street, between Market and Chestnut Street.
August 30th, 2016 at 1:44 pm
” Angry Says:
August 29th, 2016 at 9:32 am
That would be fine. But I doubt that the people who want to get rid of it would like to replace it with low-income housing.”
Which people? The ones commenting here who say raze the housing and re-build only this time let’s build more (un)affordable student housing?! I’d have to agree with you.
Penn doesn’t have enough housing, do they? That’s why there’s new student housing partially being paid for by the state (which monies could go a long way to building safe, solid affordable housing instead of more ‘luxury’ high end housing.
This housing should be brought up to standards, absolutely. HUD has not served the residents of that and other housing. Sections 202 and 811 are usually much better because they’re inspected often and maintenance is done. Any tenants who cause problems, according to every low income affordable housing application I’ve seen, have clauses giving the right to evict. When you start talking shootings, then yeah, it’s time to clean house.
What a few people commenting here probably don’t know is that the high-rise apartment building across the street is also low income affordable housing. It’s for the disabled and seniors (sections 202/811) and those people are good, quiet tenants who are also at risk when section 8 housing breaks down. There’s always security guards at the desk as soon as you walk through the front doors. There’s also a few small businesses in the “blocky” part of the building that goes to 40th. My dentist is in that part of the building. It’s clean, neat and quiet.
So not all affordable housing is bad, not all tenants are bad. It’s the minority who don’t care about themselves, let alone anyone else who make it seem like anyone in affordable housing is a “low life”. Affordable housing is NOT an impediment to 40th street corridor. I’d say Penn owning most of the property and charging insane rent for the commercial spaces is an impediment. The few businesses clinging on Market and 40th are probably long-term leases. Once those are up, the rents will go up prohibitively. Then it’ll be a line of chain fast food places with the occasional over-priced clothing store.
August 30th, 2016 at 2:55 pm
I would like to engage in a frank and earthy dialogue on this issue.
August 30th, 2016 at 3:23 pm
Some of these comments actually ARE right. I’ve shed my guilt and I just believe that older affordable housing around gentrified neighborhoods is just offensive. I mean, if I want to buy a sushi/burrito mashup or let’s say, a gourmet bbq sandwich along the 40th Street corridor, I have to walk through this housing project. And my girlfriend, who just moved to Philadelphia from Waterbury was like, whoa is this place safe? She actually asked me that?