In East Kensington

You'd be forgiven for never having heard of Braddock Street, as it exists for exactly one block on the edge of East Kensington and then comes and goes in Harrowgate before disappearing forever at Glenwood Avenue. Today we look at the one block in East Kensington, which we have incidentally covered

For as long as we've been blogging about real estate, we've been complaining about the fact that City agencies own thousands of properties, scattered across town. Don't get us wrong- it's well and good for the City to own certain types of properties, like municipal buildings, parks, rec centers, and

Industrial buildings were first built at 2601 Emerald St. only a handful of years after the Civil War, evolving and expanding as different concerns operated within. For many years, a dye works operated out of this location, eventually transitioning to a bottling company and finally Agnew Signs over the last couple decades. As we've thoroughly documented

We've documented, over the last several years, countless projects in East Kensington that have truly changed the face of a neighborhood previously suffering from years of disinvestment. As time has passed, projects have pushed further and further into the neighborhood, starting on Amber Street, moving along to Coral, and then up to

If you've ever driven through Fishtown or East Kensington, it's possible you've found yourself junking up your alignment on the cobblestoned Trenton Avenue. The lack of traditional paving on this street gives a hint about its history, but you'd be forgiven if you didn't know that Trenton Avenue had rail

We were meandering around the River Wards the other day and spied a 'For Sale' sign on a building on Fletcher Street, between Coral and Emerald. We couldn't tell you what the double-wide property at 2010 E. Fletcher St. has been used for over the last few years- perhaps someone

While East Kensington has become a booming neighborhood in terms of residential real estate development over the last handful of years, its history is distinctly industrial, like many other sections of Kensington. Most of the factories went belly up or moved away decades ago, and years of disinvestment in the neighborhood

We were scrolling through the ZBA calendar for today, and it came to our attention that development could finally be in store for a corner we've eyed for many years. 1836 E. York St. is an oddly shaped property at the intersection of Jasper St. and E. York St., in

We were traipsing through East Kensington yesterday and happened upon some new construction at 2447 Amber St. which caught our attention but not in a good way. We'd been on this block a few times before, most recently a few months ago when we told you about Letterly Green, at

2110 E. Norris St. is a pie-slice-shaped property that sits a few steps away from Front Street, behind the Liberty Choice convenience store and Five Sisters ice cream. It's possible you've noticed the warehouse building on the property as you've traveled down Norris Street, but it's even more prominently viewed from