A recent site visit by Philadelphia YIMBY has noted that construction is complete at a single-family residence at 2059-61 East York Street in Kensington. The building will span a 1,604 square foot footprint and will feature a roof deck. The structure replaces a three-story prewar rowhouse occupies the site at number 59 and a vacant grass lot at number 61. The project sits on the east side of the street, around midblock between Amber Street to the south and Coral Street to the north.
2059-61 East York Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. February 2023
2059-61 East York Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. February 2023
2059-61 East York Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. February 2023
The area is well serviced by mass transit, with the York-Dauphin station of the Market-Frankford SEPTA line several blocks to the northwest and a number of bus lines traversing the surrounding area. Hager Street Playground sits a block to the east and the much larger Norris Square Park is situated several blocks to the west.
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Talk about boxes….
A view of the front would have been nice. Especially as this covers two lots.
No Thanks.
the corner house shown in all the images has been there since 2014. what exactly are you trying to show here?
Exactly this. Pretty sure it’s one of those “Bright Commons” houses that sprung up everywhere in the neighborhood in 2014/2015.
Yes, that’s true. The pictured townhome is located at 2400 Amber St. at the northwest corner of Amber and York and was constructed in 2014.
Jamie Meller, it’d be good to get some photos of 2059-61 East York Street. VO, if you can’t match photos with commentary, make that clear to your loyal readership.
It would also be helpful to photograph 2059 York before demolition so we can cry over the lost architecturally adorned classic Philadelphia townhouse. Even the vacant lot is a loss, a loss of a dog run.
SAD
With all these lots in north Philadelphia how come there are no massive construction going on their and there are plenty of lots we need marketplace we commercial places and the housing authority has a 12year waiting list it don’t make no sense and we need a wawa to think you
and it’s already cracking. This building has all the charm of….well, no charm at all.
I don’t understand how hard it is to take good pictures of these places. It’d be nice to see the front of the building don’t u think? Was it too difficult to take the extra 20 steps and snap an extra picture? Its hilarious how low effort this site is compared to NY Yimby or Chicago Yimby. It’s not this one post either you guys always post stuff like this where u can’t get a nice view of the building ur posting about. I check this site to see what the building looks like, as does 99% of anyone else visiting this page.
Worse than that, the wrong house is photographed. See my comment above. And worse than that, neither Vitali Ogorodnikkov nor Jamie Meller have fixed the discrepancy. And worse than that, Vitali Ogorodnikkov has not informed readership, despite comments more than 24 hours ago that point out the problem.
Maybe he doesn’t read the comments…..
God damn that is heinous ugly
God damn that is heinously ugly…
this house has been there for years FYI.
it is also quite possibly the ugliest house in philadelphia. like unbelievably, ridiculously, banal and ugly. up close it is downright awful.