City Council passes Kensington business curfew | Here's what you should know

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The curfew would require some businesses to close at 11 p.m. and not reopen until 6 a.m. They include smoke shops and corner stores that, right now, stay open late and attract illicit activity.

City Council passes Kensington business curfew | Here's what you should knowA vote inside Philadelphia City Hall could have a big impact a few miles away in Kensington.

"I put all my life into Kensington Avenue," he said of the neighborhood, which is struggling with crime and an open-air drug market. The newly passed piece of legislation could change that by placing Kensington on a curfew from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. "What's happening now is some illegal activity is occurring and happening after 11," said Roberto Rodriguez who works as a commercial corridor monitor for the nonprofit IMPACT Services in Kensington.

 

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