A reader tipped us off about the addition plopped onto 2017 Carpenter St., located on a mostly two-story block with a handful of three story homes thrown in for good measure in recent years. Only framed out to this point, and featuring an unexpected bay, it kind of sticks out

If you enjoy delicious food and copious drink as we do, you should probably make your way to Passyunk Avenue today, between 1 and 4pm. Flavors of the Avenue, an annual event thrown by the East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement District, celebrates this vibrant commercial corridor with a big tent,

At the X-Games in 1999, Tony Hawk landed what history now documents as the first successful 900—two-and-a-half full rotations—after 10 failed attempts. The message? Keep goin’, kid.

Kids (well, any capable person) in West Philly will soon have a chance to practice their aerial twists on skateboards thanks to a $100K grant

A reader email gave us the heads up about an upcoming development on the northeast corner of 19th & Fairmount, and the zoning signs went up this week. This vacant lot, 1833-39 Fairmount Ave., had been owned by the Spring Garden CDC for over a decade, until it was purchased

Last week, Avram Hornik reopened Ortlieb's, the jazz bar at 847 N 3rd St. that closed down a couple of years back, when it was under other management. According to Uwishunu, several of the bar's old fixtures were preserved, but the place definitely has a new, shinier look. And the

Up the street from the future site of a Mormon Temple, and around the corner from the possible site of a future casino, developers are seeking to transform a tired two-story building at 17th & Wood into a contemporary five-story structure.

Developers from INTECH appeared before the Logan Square Neighborhood Association Zoning Committee this month with plans to

Right near Reading Terminal Market, there's a proposal currently on the table to add height to an existing building, along with a restaurant and a few dozen apartments. We're fairly certain it's the building next door to the former 8th Street Music location, though there's a chance that the project

If you’ve ever walked, cycled or driven the length of Bainbridge Street between 3rd and 5th Sts., you’re probably familiar with the strange island of parking spaces dividing Bainbridge Street into an east and westbound lane in the middle an otherwise fairly straightforward grid of one-way streets (aside from the

We were heading west from Northern Liberties and spotted a newly dug pre-foundation at 1022-24 Fairmount Ave., next to a huge vacant lot. Aside from a couple of privately owned homes and lots on the south side of this block, the rest of the immediate area is either owned by

Though Northern Liberties has experienced a tremendous amount of growth and development over the last decade plus, numerous lots and buildings remain that are underutilized and occasionally blighted. Case in point, 1120 N 3rd St., a one-story garage-front building that once held an HVAC contractor's office, and the poorly fenced