Daily News | A Nicetown community festival goes on amid - and despite - historic gun violence
Thousands of people are expected to head to Nicetown Park on Germantown Avenue on Friday and Saturday to eat, drink, listen to recording acts, watch boxing matches, be entertained by street performers and celebrate the arts, culture and economic development of the Nicetown community.
The West Philadelphia Corridor Collaborative, which represents more than 2,000 businesses, wrote to its members that the West Fest Block Party was off just days after shootings on the rec center grounds and“Even with the support offered by the 18th Police District, I feel the risk is too great for us to continue this event as planned,” collaborative president Jabari K. Jones said.
“We worked with the 14th Police District, which has done an outstanding job, and we also brought in additional security just to make sure everybody felt safe,” she said Thursday at the news conference heralding the Nicetown festival. “I keep saying to anyone who asked me, the level of fear is legitimate in the city of Philadelphia. So each organization that’s contemplating having an event needs to do a deep dive into their security process, because the worse thing you want is for somebody to get hurt or killed at your event,” he said.
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