If you've driven or biked over the South Street bridge in the past week or so, you've probably noticed a demolition project going on at the base of the bridge, on Schuylkill Ave. Here are some recent photos, with accompanying shots of what was demolished.

The demolition is in anticipation

Created by a professional designer and his artist wife, 819 S. Warnock Street is an open and bright loft-like three-bedroom and two-and-a-half bathroom new construction with light oak floors on all floors. Three decks, two-car parking, open steel railings, white lacquered kitchen cabinets, a floating bathtub and large angled windows all come with the $799K package,

If you’ve got a green thumb, or want one and you’re willing to share, Mt. Airy-based Philly Garden Swap and its memberscan be your nursery. Maybe you’ve already got a garden, but want to add some black-eyed susan, lamb’s ear or mountain fox and petunias. The three-year old group holds

We talk a lot about new development on this blog, and Philly sure does have a lot of it, but what about spaces in the city that are not under development? Places that sit, and have sat, unused and dilapidated for quite some time. I mean, we're an old city

Biking around West Philly, the sight of St. Francis de Sales Church at 47th and Springfield Avenue hits you like a pleasant slap in the face. This church is enormous and unique; built in Byzantine style and loosely based on Istanbul’s incredible St. Sophia Museum. It was built using white brick,

At 5pm, a line of bartenders stand behind the soon-to-be crowded bar at The Plough & The Stars. One sneaks his nail under a RedBull tab; it hisses open and starts a line symphony of popped cans as each bartender jolts their head back in quick, instinctive habit to down

The tri-junction where Christian, Passayunk and Christian Streets meet is home to one of the tiniest green expanses you will see in the city. But you know what they say: good things come in small . . . park sizes. Triangle Park (the name this strip has been gifted with)

Black lacquered furniture, glass tables and red accents would be right at home in Gordon Gekko's Bridgehampton beach house, next to a fabulously late-1980s Daryl Hannah. ('You spent $400K on that Georgia O'Keeffe? You could get a beach house for that.' 'Yea, maybe in Wildwood, N.J.') This expanded 1,634-square-foot two-bedroom (plus den)

They have Art + Soulfood every year, are currently working on North28 and are eating from their Marathon Farm. Brewerytown is continually pushing forward as a community, but many Philadelphians still have no idea what B-town is all about. The boys behind MM Partners recently launched BrewertytownLiving.com online community to

Carter’s is the deli-inspired South Philly Primo-style sub shop coming to 2222 Brown Street by the end of the summer, a kid’s sandwich dream come true, even with the false local gossip (we had an early report on it here). That kid is now 31-year-old owner Brendan Sinni, who lives above