Blog: Personal Injury - Page 12

Climb the steel stairs at Huntingdon Station on a cold morning, and you can feel the century in the treads. The Market-Frankford El opened above Kensington Avenue in 1922. Many of those original stair landings are still in daily use today. Thousands of riders walk down them at rush hour and at midnight. The platform …

Step off the 13th Street curb at Walnut, walk one block east, and the ground changes. The concrete gives way to a single block paved in dark wood. Camac’s 200 block is the only street in Philadelphia still paved in wood. By daylight, it shows its deep history. At 10:00 p.m. on a wet Friday …

Walk North 31st Street between Master and Jefferson at midday, and the block tells two tales at once. Six- and seven-story brick brewery walls from the 1870s rise on one side. New concrete sidewalk pads, poured in the last decade, run right up to them. The seam where the eras meet is where many falls …