I was down in their neighborhood this afternoon (picking up some cheese babka at the excellent Polish bakery there) and it's all the old ladies were talking about.
They don't really mention in the article how the neighborhood is really low income and borders a very high drug traffic zone. If you want the really hard stuff in Philadelphia this is where you go. Hell, last year a black family bought a house in nearby Kensington and the locals broke in and trashed the place before they moved in. Lots of tension thereabouts.