In Passyunk Square

For many Passyunk Square residents, most of the bars on Passyunk Ave. don't always feel like home. Especially on weekends, when hipsters from across the city descend onto otherwise wonderful places like P.O.P.E. and Cantina, locals don't necessarily have the pick of the litter for a comfortable nighttime pint. Enter

The Passyunk Square Civic Association will be holding their annual neighborhood home tour on Saturday, November 5th from noon to 4pm. Once again, residents in the Passyunk Square area will have the opportunity to offer self guided tours of their spaces to the community. This is an event that takes

A long vacant lot at 1203 Ellsworth St. that has been a small community garden for several years was recently introduced to Mr. Backhoe. Murray Development LLC purchased the property for $95K back in June, and appears to be preparing to build a new home on this property.

The 960 sqft

For years, we've seen older gentlemen sitting outside at cafe tables at 1501 S. 12th St., at the corner of 12th and Dickinson Sts., playing cards, hanging out, and speaking Italian. Though this area has become more vibrant in recent years with the revival of Passyunk Ave. and the ever-more-crowded

We were out and about in South Philly and noticed an addition being built at the corner of Juniper and Wharton Sts., on top of a sizable garage.

You'll notice that the garage door in the front of the building has been transformed into two windows, and the height of the

We were gliding down South Broad St. today, with thoughts of another parade in our heads (or at least a win tonight, please God), when we were stopped dead in our tracks by an orange Liquor License application in the window at 1131 S. Broad St.

In case the name on

For reasons we don't really understand, a few streets in the Passyunk Square neighborhood break their east to west path and suddenly turn at an angle and become perpendicular to the diagonal E. Passyunk Ave. While this makes for some stressful driving and confusing walking, it also creates some oddly

The Broad St. Diner, at the corner of Broad and Ellsworth Sts., will apparently live once more after having been closed for the past several years. As we learned yesterday from Michael Klein, Michael Petrogiannis, the gentleman who owns the Melrose along with several other diners, will be running the

If you find yourself near Passyunk Square (the park itself, not the neighborhood named after it), you might notice a large warehouse on the northwest corner of 12th and Wharton Sts.

While no one has recently mistaken Passyunk Square for Rittenhouse Square, it does seem strange for this large, seemingly vacant

This 3 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom new rehab offers about 1400 sqft. of living space. The first floor includes a living room, dining room, powder room, and eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, and a tile backsplash. On the second floor are two large bedrooms and one smaller bedroom,