Those were a few of the encouraging stats deputies of the Kensington Initiative shared on Monday, while touting their progress in combatting the neighborhood's infamous open-air drug market.

Table of Contents Kensington, a neighborhood in Philadelphia renowned for its massive open-air drug market and severe substance abuse running rampant through its streets, has been the center of ...

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker made cleaning up the embattled Kensington neighborhood a priority. The community has long been plagued by violent crime and one of the largest open-air drug ...

Despite those gains, there are still people without homes living on nearby streets and open-air drug use still occurs ... “K and A,” for the intersection of Kensington and Allegheny avenues, the site ...

That’s according to our November 2024 testing of fentanyl samples collected in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, regarded as the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast. The industrial ...

That’s according to our November 2024 testing of fentanyl samples collected in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, regarded as the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast.