Daily News | North Philly community group petitions to stop planned police building in Diamond Street Historic District
“We demand the restoration of housing and the honoring of community assets that represent incredible Black-led contributions to the world. Our children deserve to be nurtured and surrounded by protected historic sites that affirm their lives and remind them of their potential. Not police stations that showcase the threat of arrest, imprisonment, and worse,” the petition states.
The police station would go up on vacant lots on Diamond Street, just a few blocks away from the historic Church of the Advocate, which Inquirer architectural columnist Inga Saffron described as “a soaring French Renaissance cathedral.”in 1986, because of a large collection of stately row homes “interspersed with several elaborate churches,” that were built between 1875 and 1897 in the Victorian, Romanesque and Gothic architectural styles.at 2809 W. Diamond St.
But Robinson said there are plenty of other vacant lots in North Philadelphia that could be used for a new 22nd District police headquarters. She said she remembers the beautiful brownstones that once dotted that block of Diamond Street. “The houses and 12-foot ceilings and vestibules that were beautiful with tiled floors and tiled half-walls. They had the marble steps everyone talked about scrubbing.”“They are calling it a public safety complex and trying to persuade people by putting a PAL center there.
Birchett also voiced frustration at the police station opponents who have called the vacant lots on the 1900 block of West Norris Street, where she has been planting fruit trees, as an alternative site for the police headquarters.
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