The ships of the “Dead Fleet” at Pier 78 rise at low tide from their watery graves in the Delaware River. It’s a curious sight, recalling a time when the riverbanks thrummed with a booming maritime industry. Philadelphia shipping historian Robert McNulty takes us on a salty voyage to uncover the backstory of South Philadelphia’s ghost ship graveyard

The flamboyantly Flemish Engine 46 seems destined to be one of the city’s next hot restaurants. Interior architect and designer Shila Griffith fills the vacant building on Water Street with Belgian beer and three levels of rich food and rustic dining in her series, Marked Potential

As the housing boom hammers along developers continue to experiment with residential façade design leaving simple, brick and mortar row home exteriors looking almost quaint. Ariel and Grace Diliberto checks out a few new faces in the neighborhood with this row house roundup

With construction on the South Philadelphia pier park set to start this fall, Nathaniel Popkin talks to landscape architect Bryan Hanes and his design team about their inspiration

As work has begun in earnest to transform South Philadelphia’s Pier 53 into the newest public amenity on the Delaware Riverfront, Michael Bixler can’t help but get a little verklempt about its postindustrial predecessor, “Tom Sawyer’s Island”

The threads that form South Philly’s ever evolving fabric of old and new currently converge at 240 Greenwich Street in Pennsport. Chris Mote reports that the old, the former Greenwich Street Church (more recently the Khmer Palelai Buddhist Temple), is being demolished to make way for the new, two single-family homes

Our Lost Buildings roundup concludes with five more entries, plus four that almost made the list

South Philly fast food fans will have to keep getting their Big Buford on at 20th & Oregon, as a plan to replace Engine 46 with a Checkers franchise has fallen through. Chris Mote has the details on how Engine 46 lives to see another day