Kensington
Kensington is located in the Near Northeast section of Philadelphia, located just a couple of miles northeast of Center City.
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…
This half-acre strip along a pier is named after Casimir Pulaski, a Polish military commander and American Revolutionary war hero who died in the Battle of Savannah. This sliver of…
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…
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…
Circa 1847. Curving from Dyott Street up Aramingo Avenue
Before it was a street, Aramingo Avenue was a canal. And before that, it was a well-known natural creek called Gunner’s…
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…
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…
Richmond Power Plant
The property, just south of the Betsy Ross Bridge, is not within Philadelphia Park's 10-mile exclusionary zone. It was first mentioned as a possible casino re-site after…
