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Special Reports (Page 22)

Features•Special Reports

NYC Cold: Street performers, homeless seek warmth of ferry terminal

The entryway also plays host to a tin man and golden statue.

Audio•Features•Special Reports

NYC Cold: Coney Island’s Nathan’s Famous attract tourists in the bitter cold

Nathan's hot dogs is comfort food for cold New Yorkers and tourists.

Features•Special Reports

NYC Cold: Despite the cold, carriage rides continue in Central Park

Snow adds some magic to the horse and buggy rides in Central Park.

Features•Special Reports

NYC Cold: Bad Weather brings big business to plumbing store

The brutal winter is this shop’s good fortune.

Features•Special Reports

NYC Cold: Homeless man seeks other places to stay warm

“The shelters are a zoo,” he said of crowded city shelters.

Features•Special Reports

Philadelphia Life: Tourism keeps the city vital and alive

Visitors dollars help schools, libraries and other public services stay afloat.

News•Politics•Special Reports

Philadelphia Life: Pennsylvania is an easy place to buy guns, officials say

Whether you’re a cowboy or a bandit, you will not have trouble obtaining a firearm in the state any time soon.

Features•Special Reports

Philadelphia Life: Illegal guns are a way of life in some neighborhoods

Obtaining a pistol can be as easy as walking up to a corner and asking for one.

Multimedia•News•Special Reports•Video

Philadelphia Life: The Golden Block fights to revitalize in the face of urban ills

Amanda Plasencia report's from Philadelphia's "El Bloque de Oro" a Latino community that faces stiff economic pressures and battles the ills of drug addiction and high levels of crime.

Arts•Features•Special Reports

Philadelphia Life: Walnut Street Theatre “getting better with age”

The oldest theater in the country has the largest subscription base.