Naval Square Home Asks $779K + Your Forgiveness/Help
Listen, we've all shown up to a cocktail party in a bunny suit. Or some equally inappropriate sartorial selection. So try and have a little empathy for this custom built three-bedroom, two and a half-bath home in Naval Square. On the market for $779,000 plus about $500 a month in HOA dues, the owners apparently used their own architects, interior designer, lighting designers, and Jo-Ann Fabric enthusiasts to finish this property "to their exceptional taste." The 23' wide property features two landscaped balconies, 9-foot ceilings, a custom kitchen, and, well, custom just about everything. And now, a poem by Robert Frost:
"Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."(Not even this godawful wallpaper)(Yay).
3rd Floor Knights Bridge Condo Asks $829K, Bookworms Rejoice
Literally right around the corner from the most drool-worthy carriage house this side of Broad, this third floor, 1,500 square-foot condo is a bookworm's dream. Including private parking and an elevator, this two-bedroom, two and a half-bath residence features an open kitchen and dining area, bright living area, and access to a private outdoor terrace where you shall sit and sip your tea and drum your fingers on your lounge chair waiting patiently for Karl Ove's third installation to arrive in May.
Down the hall, the den has enough built-in bookshelves to house the complete Knausgaard saga, an encyclopedia set or two, all the Harry Potters, and all those other hard-cover books you bought before waiting for the paperback to come out because you just had to. The bedrooms are nice, and so are the bathrooms. You could probably read books in there, too.
Down the hall, the den has enough built-in bookshelves to house the complete Knausgaard saga, an encyclopedia set or two, all the Harry Potters, and all those other hard-cover books you bought before waiting for the paperback to come out because you just had to. The bedrooms are nice, and so are the bathrooms. You could probably read books in there, too.
The Carpenter's Union's alleged Saturday shenanigans resulted in a restraining order on Sunday, banning members and leaders of theMetropolitan Regional Council of Carpentersfrom "vandalizing or destructing" Auto Show vehicles, and "threatening, harassing, intimidating" show attendees." But could their actions have even a wider effect, and hurt Philly's bid for the 2016 Democratic Convention? [Philly.com] 
Stephen Stofka over at Plan Philly does an impressive job of analyzing the Partners of the 30th Street Station District Plan's ambitious redesign of the area surrounding the grand railway landmark. The plans are complicated, and the reality "is messy," he says, but "it is not insurmountable, but the resources necessary to realize the plan are going to be deep and this will limit how much time and resources the partners of the 30th Street Station District will want to spend altering starting conditions." [Hidden City]Elkins Park Mid-Century Modern by Arthur B. White Hits Market
Listing photos via Estately
Did you know that the only synagogue designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright is in Elkins Park? The structure is considered by many critics to be Wright's most expressive house of worship. Translucent walls allow natural light to stream into the interior during the day, and at night, the entire building is illuminated with artificial lighting. "It is said that the sanctuary of Beth Sholom Synagogue demonstrates Wright's "unmatched capacity to translate ritual into space and experience."
Drawing copyright the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, via Wright on the Web
Drawing copyright the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, via Wright on the Web
Onto our listing. Another Elkins Park architectural gem, a 1950's mid-century modern designed by prominent Philadelphia architect Arthur B. White, is on the market at the asking price of $299,000.
McCallum Street Renovation Opens Up First Floor Interior
Photos via inHabit
Facelifts are not for everyone. Fact. But for this house on McCallum Street in Mount Airy, whose first floor rooms were closed off from each other, a transformation was indeed called for. The owners lamented that the living room was never used, even when entertaining, because it was cut off from the rest of the floor. Also that kitchen was in desperate need of a little jeuge, dontcha think?
Here are the before photos:
Sale of Vacant Lot at 19th and Walnut Postponed; Union Woes
Photo of lot's glorious stint as a PHS Pop-Up via Philly HomegrownThe lot will be vacant for another two decades. -Liz Spikol
· Southern Land Company Expected to Close on Lot at 19th and Walnut[Philly Mag]
· Bicycle Coalition hiring Bike Share ambassadors [West Philly Local]
· Convention Center gets restraining order against Carpenter's Union[PBJ]
· 1844 Stone home in Pottstown asks $625K [Estately]
· Drexel undergrad sparks 'most heated Shark fight ever' on 'Shark Tank' [Technical.ly Philly]
· Bicycle Coalition hiring Bike Share ambassadors [West Philly Local]
· Convention Center gets restraining order against Carpenter's Union[PBJ]
· 1844 Stone home in Pottstown asks $625K [Estately]
· Drexel undergrad sparks 'most heated Shark fight ever' on 'Shark Tank' [Technical.ly Philly]
All of these new neighborhood names are getting to be kind of cheesy. Are we really that lazy to be naming them after movies or shortening them into acronyms? They're becoming rather banal. —context [What You Get When You Decide to Live in The Eraserhood]
Geniuses at Billy Penn Help Us Remember Order of Streets
Photo via Steve Ives
We all were once new here. And we all had a method of remembering the order of Center City streets (maybe some of us invented a handy little rap, just as an example). Our friends over at Billy Penn shared a question posed on Philly Reddit a month ago:
"Is there an easy way to remember the order of East-West [directional] streets in different parts of the city? Like an anagram our sentence that they all spell out?" user TeeHomes asked. "I seem to have a severe mental block on remembering them."
It's not just you, TeeHomes. You're just one of the few brave enough to admit it.
Reddit user bierdimpfe was quick with a reply:
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Photograph Luxury Cars in $1.5M North Philly Pad
Photos via Estately
This 5,000 square-foot literally at the intersection of Northern Liberties, Fishtown, and Old Kensington is, as you can see, currently occupied by the person with the coolest job in the world. Besides being able to drive luxury cars straight into your living room through a 14' x 16' garage door, this space features a 34' x 26' "cyc" (photography backdrop) and radiant (in the floor) heating system. To help facilitate any old kind of photography you darn well please. The $1.5 million property includes a 24' x 60' outdoor space and there's an open kitchen, living room, and a lofted bedroom and bath.
The Fairmount Park Welcome Center, a.k.a. the flying saucer in Love Park that is actually nowhere near Fairmount Park has joined a list of seven endangered sites issued by the statewide educational and advocacy group Preservation Pennsylvania. "The round building, at the southwest corner of what is known as LOVE Park, is threatened by a planned city redesign of the plaza." [Philly.com] What You Get When You Decide to Live in The Eraserhood
Remember that kind of neat one-bedroom condo at 449 North 13th Street that was being listed for $500K? It's still on the market. And incidentally, you can also test-drive the place on AirBnb. All the options. But whether you'd want to buy/rent a glass-encased loft on North 13th is almost besides the point. Because the price alone is indication enough that Eraserhood is trying to happen. Whether we like it or not.
But any of the regulars and owners of the neighborhood haunts detailed in the map below will tell you: this neighborhood is a lot morethan the promise of new condo buildings and an elevated rail park. It's hole-in-the wall taco joints, cutting-edge music venues, and 100 year-old watering holes, that really don't give a crap what you call the 'hood, just as long as you tip well and leave the place as you found it.
$250K for SS United States; GroJLart Opines on Museum Towers
Rendering of Museum Towers via GroJLart
· $250K for the SS United States [Philly.com]
· Habitat for Humanity ReStore for Washington Ave [Passyunk Post]
· SEPTA Union says sometimes 14-hour shifts are too long [NBC]
· GroJLart weighs in on Spring Garden Towers [Philaphilia]
· Habitat for Humanity ReStore for Washington Ave [Passyunk Post]
· SEPTA Union says sometimes 14-hour shifts are too long [NBC]
· GroJLart weighs in on Spring Garden Towers [Philaphilia]
At first read I was thinking, "3 bed, 3 bath, roof deck, and parking in Northern Liberties for just $450k?" That would be a hell of a deal. Except this isn't in Northern Liberties. This is in Poplar. Not a bad location, but this is in NoLibs like Ellsworth St. is in G-Ho.—guest [3 Bedroom 3 Bath New Construction in NoLibs Asks $450K]
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