Blog: Slip & Fall - Page 10

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 …

Walk into Jefferson Square Park on a weekday morning, and the surface under your feet tells two stories at once. The newer concrete paths feel modern. The old granite walls and pillars at the corners date to the 1870s. That mix of eras is part of the charm. It is also part of why people …

Walk Christian Street between 15th and 20th, and the sidewalk changes every 20 feet. Old slabs sit next to fresh pours at new condos. Brick paving lifts where street trees have grown for a century. The strip known as Black Doctors Row sits inside a historic district, which shapes what owners can do when a …

Walk east on Catharine Street, and the sidewalk under your feet starts to change. Brick gives way to concrete, then back to brick. The block in front of the Fleisher Art Memorial at 719 Catharine looks beautiful from across the street. Up close, the seams between old and new tell a different story. Rand Spear …

Two pieces of modern trail infrastructure connect Fitler Square to the Schuylkill River. Both tie into sidewalks that were poured generations earlier. The line where new surfaces meet old residential pavement is where a routine walk turns into a fall. At Rand Spear – The Accident Lawyer, our Fitler Square, Philadelphia, slip and fall accident …

It is a Saturday afternoon on Fairmount Avenue. A family steps out of a rideshare and starts walking the last few blocks to Eastern State Penitentiary. Their eyes are on the prison’s tall stone wall up ahead. Their feet are on a sidewalk that was poured before anyone alive today was born. Around 200,000 visitors …