Crowd restrictions forced by the COVID-19 pandemic are resulting in the cancellation of the 2020 Lehigh Valley Puerto Rican Festival & Parade in Allentown scheduled for Sunday, July 26.

The city in partnership with the Allentown Area Chamber of Commerce and the Allentown Parking Authority is extending business expansion opportunities for restaurants, bars and cafés where food and/or beverages may be served.

The Allentown Department of Parks and Recreation will re-open Keck Skate Park as well as tennis and handball courts on Friday, June 5.

Repaving work will close portions of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in the city of Allentown through at least Wednesday, June 10.

Following unprecedented job loss due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Allentown Arts Commission chair, Jane Heft announced today a new program which would provide small grants to artists living or working in the city of Allentown.

The Lehigh Valley Food Policy Council in partnership with Muhlenberg College and the City of Allentown will distribute Operation BBQ relief meal boxes on Friday, May 29, 2020 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Muhlenberg College at 2400 Chew Street.

N. 6th Street will be closed from Whitehall Street to Sumner Avenue beginning on Wednesday, May 27 until further notice for a rain garden construction project.

The city's street cleaning program resumed today.

Allentown EMS is observing National EMS Week.

Public swimming pools and summer playground activities in the city of Allentown will be closed this summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic.