There are several Northeast Philadelphia sites for residents to help tidy up on Saturday, April 5, the date of the seventh citywide spring cleanup. The following is the latest list of Northeast projects. Bring yourself and a willingness to rake, shovel, sweep and plant for a few hours.
• Grant Avenue, from Bustleton Avenue to Krewstown Road; Red Lion Road traffic islands
• Wilmot Park, Mulberry and Meadow, streets; community garden, Tackawanna and Meadow.
• Over-ing-ton Park, 4600 Leiper St.
• St. Mar-tin’s, 5450 Roosevelt Blvd.
• Take Back Your Neigh-bor-hood, 6500 Castor Ave.
• May-fair Me-mori-al Play-ground, 3201 Ry-an Ave.
• 8297 Bustleton Ave.
• Tar-heels Com-munity Clean, Sum-mer-dale Av-en-ue and the Boulevard to Sum-mer-dale and Ox-ford av-en-ues
• Lard-ner’s Point Park, 5101 Levick St.
• 7300 Frank-ford Ave.
• 1300 block of As-cot Place, Somer-ton
• Hayes Play-ground, 9935 Pres-id-ent St.
• Light-house Soc-cer Club, Roosevelt Boulevard and Southamp-ton Road
• Poquessing Creek near Southampton Road
• Max Myers Rec Center, 1601 Hellerman St.
• 15146 Carter Road
• 4000 Orchard Lane
• 2000 Princeton Avenue
• 7900 Ridgeway St.
• 8950 Ashton Road
• 9000 block of Convent Avenue
• 2000 block of Glenview Street
• 2100 block of Montour Street
• Rising Sun Avenue and Comly Street
• 6700 block of Ditman Street
• 6400 block of Ditman Street
• 2100 block of Carver Street
• 4700 block of Northwood Street
• 6300 block of Revere Street
• 1800 block of Cottman Avenue
• 6100 block of Jackson Street
• 6400 block of Walker Street
• 1601 Cottman Ave.
• 8000 block of Montague Street
• 1500 block of Sellers Street
The city provides rakes, shovels, brooms and work gloves. Participants can bring their own tools as well. The city provides trash pickups for re-gistered pro-jects. ••
