For years, the Philadelphia neighborhood has been inundated with addiction, homelessness, and fear, while city officials stand idly by and neighbors suffer. But something new is on the horizon.
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One afternoon in April, a beautiful spring day, I drive with Eddie and Anthony from the Last Stop in Kensington to Graffiti Pier on the Delaware River.
Eddie Zampitella founded the Last Stop, a nonprofit that helps people with drug and alcohol addictions, 30 years ago. It is what the name implies: a place for anyone to go when they’ve run out of hope…