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Tag Archives: Kensington
Philly’s Kensington Yet Again
BEHOLD THE TRANSFORMATION of a neighborhood before your very eyes. That’s what a walk around parts of Philadelphia’s Kensington is like. Whenever I visit, every two months or so, there’s new development, and it’s spreading fast. In 2008, when I … Continue reading
Ambling Around Kensington
I’M MORE BULLISH THAN EVER on Kensington, the Philadelphia neighborhood north of Center City where I bought a small row house for investment in 2007. Eight years ago, the area was full of crumbling, sagging buildings. Now it’s being spiffed … Continue reading
Posted in MISCELLANEOUS, PHILADELPHIA, REAL ESTATE/INVESTING
Tagged Kensington, Norris Square
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Investing in Philly? Consider Kensington
FROM TIME TO TIME, people ask me where to invest in Philadelphia real estate. (Sometimes they ask me where to invest in Brooklyn, and I say: “Philadelphia!”) But within Philly, I say Kensington, particularly the southern section sometimes known as … Continue reading
Playing Tourist in Philly
The brand-new LeMeridien in Center City TODAY BEGAN WITH COFFEE AND A CROISSANT at the Reading Terminal Market, an indoor foodie paradise the likes of which no city should be without (though I know of no other such place anywhere) … Continue reading
Posted in HISTORIC PRESERVATION, INTERIOR DESIGN, LANDSCAPING, MISCELLANEOUS, PHILADELPHIA, ROAD TRIPS, TRAVEL
Tagged City Hall, Fishtown, Garden Conservancy, Greensgrow Farms, hotel, Kensington, Le Meridien, Love Park, Old City, Open Days, Queen Village, Randall Rosenthal, Reading Terminal Market, Southwark Restaurant, Standard Tap, Starwood, Winterthur, Wood Turning Center
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Philadelphia Garden Clean-Up
YOU CAN TELL JUST BY LOOKING at this 20’x25′ backyard with its battered brick wall, which is attached to the rear unit of the double-trinity house I own in the Old Kensington section of Philadelphia, that the garden is a … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, LANDSCAPING, PHILADELPHIA
Tagged annuals, backyard, clean up, cleaning up, gravel patio, Kensington, pea gravel, PHILADELPHIA, salvaged brick, trinity house, urban garden, weeds
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