FishtownLocated immediately northeast of Center City, its borders are somewhat disputed today due to many factors, but are roughly defined by the triangle created by the Delaware River, Frankford Avenue, and York Street. Newer residents of the area consider it to go all the way up to Lehigh Avenue.
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Delaware Avenue and Poplar Street Website This Northern Liberties site appears is the location of the next skyscraper along the Central Delaware (after Waterfront Square). The development team is led by Marc Stein, third-generation Philadelphia steel…
This unassuming structure sits across Delaware Avenue from Penn Treaty Park and serves some of the best sandwiches in Philadelphia. Known for its cheesesteaks, roast pork and hot sausage, Johnny’s…
Delaware Avenue and Shackamaxon Street Website One of two sites licensed for slot casino development by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, the site was so named because of its former use as a sugar refinery. The…
Richmond Station is one of three early power plants built by the Philadelphia Electric Power Company in the early 20th century. It once housed the world’s largest Westinghouse turbo-generator, and…
Promoting itself as one of the oldest active music venues in Philadelphia, the Barbary has been a breeding ground for up-and-coming rock musicians since 1969. Located at the edge of…
Look past the industrial buildings that line Fishtown and cross Delaware Avenue, and you will find Philadelphia’s only true waterfront park. Located at the foot of Columbia (Cecil B. Moore)…
This site has been vacant so long it resembles natural grassland, and in fact provides quite a beautiful stroll in autumn. And it will remain vacant for a time, with…
The looming white oil storage tanks along Allegheny Avenue are there for a reason. Oil has simply supplanted coal on a site that, 150 years ago, was famous for making…
The toy that walks down stairs was invented on the Delaware waterfront, at the old Cramps Shipyard in Port Richmond.
One day in the 1945, a naval engineer at the…
Buried in the 1850s, Cohocksink Creek once formed the boundary between Northern Liberties and Kensington. The stream emptied into the Delaware at Brown Street. Its name, an Indian term with…
Richmond Street at Dyott Street
Nowhere does the widespread destruction of Philadelphia’s waterfront history seem crueler than at Dyottsville. Nothing but a grassy field today that was the proposed Pinnacle Casino site, this area on the…
Only one building remains of the once world-famous Cramps Shipyard, and it’s about to be torn down. The Cramps Shipyard Building is a square-shouldered former machine shop that stands with…
The Edward Corner Marine Merchandize warehouse is a utilitarian four-story warehouse fronting North Delaware Avenue in Fishtown, near the site of the demolished Jack Frost Sugar Refinery. Edward Corner purchased…
One of two riverfront sites selected by Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. Sits on 22.6 acres in Northern Liberties at Delaware Avenue and Shackamaxon Street. Though it is further…
