History Rediscovering The Dead Fleet Of The Delaware River 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 ...
Architecture Marked Potential: Engine 46 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 ...
Architecture Many Ways To Skin A Row House 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 ...
Art & Design At Pier 68, New Ways To Connect To The “Working” River 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 ...
History Ode To Tom Sawyer Island 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 ...
Preservation A New Year, A New Demolition In Pennsport 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 ...
Preservation Lost Buildings of 2013-Part II Our Lost Buildings roundup concludes with five more entries, plus four that almost made the ...
Preservation No Checkers At Engine 46 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 ...
