Ready for a picnic?  Well bring your dinner out to the park on Tuesday night and meet some of your neighbors.  Relax on the bench and watch the kids run around.  Look at the progress of the new… Read More

Love Your Park Week, May 7- 14th 2016   We would love to see you at our “Love Your Park” event, Saturday May 7th, from 10 AM to Noon. We’ll have ongoing lessons in weed pulling and identification… Read More

If you have not encountered Hidden City (hiddencityphila.org), this is a good place to begin (post from 4/2016): Reassessing Horace Trumbauer

Philadelphia Parks and Recreation and Philadelphia Parks Alliance   Since it’s Spring and we’re about to launch the annual “Love Your Park” campaign, we’d like to point you to these two Facebook pages and the My Philly Park/Fairmount… Read More

The Friends of Julian Abele Park are pleased to report the presence of two bike racks, located on the 22nd Street side of the Park. We are not certain who our mysterious benefactor(s) is/are, but we are grateful… Read More