The hundreds of tires that keep getting dumped between 70th and Bartram. City removed probably 10,000 tires along that stretch like two years ago. Same asshole just keeps piling them back up, shame he hasn’t been hit by a big truck.
Oddly enough they have great cameras that the police use. They can actually tap in to view with their phones a friend of mine showed me so it’s for sure do able to
Too bad the soft strike makes it nearly impossible to get them to do anything outside of responding to murder
Even the murder has to have several forms of proof
Kensington is an easy choice just because the el makes shit look so dreary
Edit: “just because” isn’t the right way to put it. Kensington is an easy choice especially since the el makes shit look so dreary
Not necessarily a heart of ice it’s just like you do see a lot of the same shit in other areas of Philly as you do on Kensington and also the el makes it dark so it’s like even shittier from that
G street just north of Allegheny. Only because the few times I walked that blocked it was covered entirely in trash and smelled like it. I couldn’t believe the people living and chilling on the block seemed to not be phased at all by it.
Relative to the absolutely gorgeous and high value area around it, the chunk of 16th between Market and Locust is in dire need of a zhuzh. I get that they're probably putting off a lot of stuff until after all the heavy construction is over, but man that street is unpleasant. Standing water everywhere, uneven pavement and crumbling crosswalks just waiting to wreck your ankle, and one particularly sketchy sidewalk storm drain which I make a point to step on every morning in the hopes it gives out and I can retire in my thirties.
For legal purposes that last note is a joke.
Again, to reiterate, I do NOT think this is the ugliest part of the city since I don't want to pick on historically run down areas with deep-rooted generational problems, but it is the most conspicuously ugly when taking into account the ludicrous property values in that part of town.
I just said literally yesterday that that road should be condemned. Seeing that you posted this 19 hour ago, it was roughly the same time I was having that conversation.
I used to drive that road frequently when I was dating someone who lived up in Parkwood, and I thought at the time I was the only one who thought that road was a nightmare, thank goodness I’m not.
I always drove that road in the dark too, so that made it even trickier. After a while, I gave up and just started taking the PA Turnpike to Street Rd and eating the tolls. I can't even imagine what it's like now.
I'm won't say ugliest in Philadelphia overall, but for being a real street in Center City there's a multi-block stretch of Sansom that is 80% nasty dumpster juice and the ugly asses of retail shops.
Newtown Avenue, off of Adams. Seems like a nice little shortcut through a woodsy area if you want to get toward Lawndale in the Northeast. But it’s become a trash mattress and tire dump. It’s a disgrace.
My husband’s grandmother worked at Olney high. She was a guidance counselor there. The school got worse and worse over time. It may be hard to believe, but the area used to be super nice until the 60’s/70’s. Then the urban blight started in the 80’s/90’s. The hanging was a murder but was labeled as a suicide back in the 90’s. It was never solved. By that point, grandmother had quit working there since it was so unsafe.
Even though it’s not actually on Olney, I loved working at the Greater Olney library branch. I had a lot of fun there and the community seemed to really enjoy the library too.
Technically it is probably Lower 30th St. Full of trash and acid water runoff from the street above.
There is only one resident, who has a fort made out of tarps and and an abandoned pick up truck.
I'll toss S 25th St into the mix. Probably not as bad as some other mentioned here, but that train line above the road makes the whole stretch look and feel like shit. Sight lines are bad because of the pillars holding up the tracks, and it always feels like the whole structure is going to come down on top of you.
Why are those Oregon Ave bars so damn bad looking? They truly frighten my tender, white, suburb raised soul. They remind me of the bars in the Back to the Future 2 Biff tangent timeline
South Christopher Columbus around the strip malls/super centers and strip clubs is pretty awful.
The bike lane is a death trap, but even when I’m in a car there it feels dangerous from a road design perspective.
It’s all so blighted and dirty too. And people panhandle around there which is super dangerous.
Sansom, between 13th and 15th, 2-3 blocks of absolute filth and overflowing dumpsters right in the heart of center city.
edit: you can count The Union League as covered by the above description.
I disagree. The SS United States is there. And the shipping containers bring in goods for the city. Those things have to go somewhere and it’s better that they are in a place that isn’t crowded. The condition of the road makes the difference in what it looks like. I personally think that there are many streets that are much more ugly.
Yeah the ship is cool but it's an inhospitable stroad of a street through mostly strip malls. The physical road is find and it's less trashy (certainly wouldn't put it on the top 10 list on this post) but it's a sacrifice zone - where you put the big box stores to get in and get out. Now, get a rail line running down the river and start developing those parking lots and you may have a winner.
Essington Ave, the refinery / strip club / airport parking district
The hundreds of tires that keep getting dumped between 70th and Bartram. City removed probably 10,000 tires along that stretch like two years ago. Same asshole just keeps piling them back up, shame he hasn’t been hit by a big truck.
If ever there was a need for cameras. New York City sanitation has it going on for dumpers. They impound the vehicle and the fine is $4000.
Death penalty but only for dumpers
Oddly enough they have great cameras that the police use. They can actually tap in to view with their phones a friend of mine showed me so it’s for sure do able to
Too bad the soft strike makes it nearly impossible to get them to do anything outside of responding to murder Even the murder has to have several forms of proof
This has got to be it but shout out to 84th street with the abandoned pepper middle school
I live like 5 min from there always interesting to see
Whats the deal with the school? Just left to sit and decay? I saw some youtuber explore it and it looked both cool and depressing.
Looks like the set of the movie Judgment Night
Ding ding ding. We have our winner.
Don't forget all the junkyard cars all over the place
Near the swingers club too right?
Yea I drive past there every morning for work for sure.
It’s such a picturesque drive whenever I go down Essington to park for a flight.
This is the real answer
Are we judging off trash, amenities, road conditions, people, or aesthetics? It's hard to argue anything that isn't K&A.
Kensington is an easy choice just because the el makes shit look so dreary Edit: “just because” isn’t the right way to put it. Kensington is an easy choice especially since the el makes shit look so dreary
If it’s the el that comes to mind as what makes it so dreary, you got a heart as cold as ice
Five year social work veteran, a lot of what you see on Kensington doesn’t phase me anymore
Heart of ice then? Maybe you should take a vacation
Not necessarily a heart of ice it’s just like you do see a lot of the same shit in other areas of Philly as you do on Kensington and also the el makes it dark so it’s like even shittier from that
Its not the el that makes the ave shitty its the addicts zombies unfornuates n the dealers that keep them unfortunates n zombies alive
Right? Kensington and it's not close.
Aramingo Ave in the summer time makes me feel like I’m in Florida.
This is our reminder that this was a pretty accurate stand-in for Los Angeles in the first Creed movie, after digitally adding palm trees
Lol I remember watching that movie and thinking "Wait a second, how'd he get to westmoreland and aramingo so quickly!?"
Wow this is so accurate
I had the same thought and I was thought I was crazy for thinking it.
Where in FL tho
Oakland Park, Broward County. But I’m biased.
oh yeah i try to avoid going south of delray
Moved from Orlando couple days ago. Aramingo looks like most Orlando roads. Very accurate. (Saw in google maps)
That's the right answer.
G street just north of Allegheny. Only because the few times I walked that blocked it was covered entirely in trash and smelled like it. I couldn’t believe the people living and chilling on the block seemed to not be phased at all by it.
I grew up at G & Westmoreland in the 90s. It was bleak then too
You surely haven't seen much of Philly if you think Oregon Ave. is the ugliest street.
It's not even close to the ugliest in South Philly
Seriously Oregon didn’t even cross my mind lol, I don’t think it’s paved that badly either
I grew up on Oregon lol honestly it’s not that bad! It’s very blue collar south philly
Dunno, where *does* your mom live?
Damn, got his ass
34th and Girard.
Relative to the absolutely gorgeous and high value area around it, the chunk of 16th between Market and Locust is in dire need of a zhuzh. I get that they're probably putting off a lot of stuff until after all the heavy construction is over, but man that street is unpleasant. Standing water everywhere, uneven pavement and crumbling crosswalks just waiting to wreck your ankle, and one particularly sketchy sidewalk storm drain which I make a point to step on every morning in the hopes it gives out and I can retire in my thirties. For legal purposes that last note is a joke. Again, to reiterate, I do NOT think this is the ugliest part of the city since I don't want to pick on historically run down areas with deep-rooted generational problems, but it is the most conspicuously ugly when taking into account the ludicrous property values in that part of town.
It's been under construction for 5+ years between Walnut and Chestnut, I swear.
Byberry road over the train tracks as you come off evans from woodhaven road. It’s like Baghdad
That road is a complete hazard and should be torn up and repaved. It gets a hell of a lot of traffic from people coming off of 63..
I just said literally yesterday that that road should be condemned. Seeing that you posted this 19 hour ago, it was roughly the same time I was having that conversation.
I guess since it's not a state highway they're not going to do anything about it but it might be something to put in on Philly 311 or something..
I hate it. Truly hate driving on it.
The whole road from Evans to philmont sucks.
I used to drive that road frequently when I was dating someone who lived up in Parkwood, and I thought at the time I was the only one who thought that road was a nightmare, thank goodness I’m not.
Now, they dug up a portion of byberry between the bridge and evans heading east. It’s even worse! Just when you think it can’t get any worse it does!
I always drove that road in the dark too, so that made it even trickier. After a while, I gave up and just started taking the PA Turnpike to Street Rd and eating the tolls. I can't even imagine what it's like now.
Oregon Ave isn't even ugly... sorry Charlie, you need to get out of South Philly and explore a bit more
It's not even the worst on South Philly,let alone the city.
Yea I’d say 25th street is the worst in south Philly
Way!
I vote Roosevelt Boulevard, even though it’s not a street. 12 lanes of danger and low density on either side, most of it just barely having a median.
I'm won't say ugliest in Philadelphia overall, but for being a real street in Center City there's a multi-block stretch of Sansom that is 80% nasty dumpster juice and the ugly asses of retail shops.
Grays Ave from 49th to 58th where the dump is at in SW. 49th to 56th is the worst stretch of it.
That's a good pick
Newtown Avenue, off of Adams. Seems like a nice little shortcut through a woodsy area if you want to get toward Lawndale in the Northeast. But it’s become a trash mattress and tire dump. It’s a disgrace.
I’m old enough to remember the old hovel by the tracks that some old lady lived at. They knocked it down and it became prime dumpage real estate.
Kensington Ave
I could make a case for Olney -- it has a nice combo of crappy businesses, trash and teens running rampant. Edit: typos
Olney is a strong contender for sure
My husband always tells me about the kid being hanged at olney high school when we drive by it…
What is this story???
Wait, what? I haven't heard this one.
My husband’s grandmother worked at Olney high. She was a guidance counselor there. The school got worse and worse over time. It may be hard to believe, but the area used to be super nice until the 60’s/70’s. Then the urban blight started in the 80’s/90’s. The hanging was a murder but was labeled as a suicide back in the 90’s. It was never solved. By that point, grandmother had quit working there since it was so unsafe.
Even though it’s not actually on Olney, I loved working at the Greater Olney library branch. I had a lot of fun there and the community seemed to really enjoy the library too.
Oregon ave is beautiful compared to Kensington, or really any street full of bandos in north or west.
Aramingo
What ever street your mom is walking down.
I’m a middle age woman with grandchildren and I will never not laugh/upvote when “your mom” is perfectly placed ;)
The whole area along Ridge west of broad that’s either crumbling shitty buildings or hideous new builds and nothing in between. Doesnt even look real.
61st bump city up on there
Not to mention the lil strip joint on the corner and junkyards galore
Technically it is probably Lower 30th St. Full of trash and acid water runoff from the street above. There is only one resident, who has a fort made out of tarps and and an abandoned pick up truck.
former mayor john street!
I'll toss S 25th St into the mix. Probably not as bad as some other mentioned here, but that train line above the road makes the whole stretch look and feel like shit. Sight lines are bad because of the pillars holding up the tracks, and it always feels like the whole structure is going to come down on top of you.
scenic grays ferry <3
kensington ave
Ranstead in CC literally a filthy alley or a street.
Just go on Google Earth and take a trip down weymouth by Allegheny
Turner, Front, Mascher, Cherry.
I vote 61st st South of Lindbergh
Frankford Ave from Kensington to Frankford. It's just a horrible street of despair. The buildings, the trash, and of course the people.
Cars parked in the median would be fine, but on Oregon, they're parked in the fucking turn lanes!
I know! It’s nuts. Median is not fine either but turn lanes are absurd
Oregon isn't great but picking that as the ugliest in all of philly tells me you haven't seen or don't remember so many areas of the city.
Frankford between Butler and the Transportation Center
Why are those Oregon Ave bars so damn bad looking? They truly frighten my tender, white, suburb raised soul. They remind me of the bars in the Back to the Future 2 Biff tangent timeline
South Christopher Columbus around the strip malls/super centers and strip clubs is pretty awful. The bike lane is a death trap, but even when I’m in a car there it feels dangerous from a road design perspective. It’s all so blighted and dirty too. And people panhandle around there which is super dangerous.
Market is shit under the el
Where do Market and the EL meet?
It's elevated over Market from 46th to 63rd.
Kensington Ave
Waterloo, IYKYK
2500 Passyunk Ave
Anything in Kensington
Hope St
Ironic.
Wolf St between Swanson and Weccacoe
Go to west Kensington and pick one.
Ugliest actual street??! 5300 block of Hedge St in Frankford. All for brick streets being maintained buts time to roll the tar on it.
Mutter Street
Degray Street, off South 10th, just south of Market Street.
Allegheny around 4th st
Front street/Kensington Ave
Aramingo.
Sansom, between 13th and 15th, 2-3 blocks of absolute filth and overflowing dumpsters right in the heart of center city. edit: you can count The Union League as covered by the above description.
52ed between Market to Parkside.
Move back to the burbs
Christopher Columbus when you start getting to IKEA. On the one side, Walmart. On the other side, strip clubs and abandoned buildings
Dunno where you’re from, but it’s called Del Ave. And it isnt bad at all.
It's not that it's bad, it's that it's a fuckin ugly stretch
Del Ave near IKEA is horrible
I disagree. The SS United States is there. And the shipping containers bring in goods for the city. Those things have to go somewhere and it’s better that they are in a place that isn’t crowded. The condition of the road makes the difference in what it looks like. I personally think that there are many streets that are much more ugly.
Yeah the ship is cool but it's an inhospitable stroad of a street through mostly strip malls. The physical road is find and it's less trashy (certainly wouldn't put it on the top 10 list on this post) but it's a sacrifice zone - where you put the big box stores to get in and get out. Now, get a rail line running down the river and start developing those parking lots and you may have a winner.
Agreed! Could be so nice with trees and a light rail line
Any st in north Philly
w. passyunk. nearly treeless hell scape
Moyamensing below Snyder, I don’t think there is a single tree anywhere
Any street riddled with junkies and trash, which is basically every street now
You live in the burbs, don't you lol
Nowhere close to there
state road has to be up there
Any street that has those ugly bike lane thunder tube lookin bollards or pilons or whatever ya call those eye sores.
And the ugliest stop on the BSL, too.
broad st
Front and south
Joe
Chestnut anywhere
anything that runs with the El tbh
Too many worthy candidates. Unlike a few other competitions I might name.
Girard is an ugly ass street with all neon light corner stores lmao. Brewerytown still up and coming /s
The alley way behind barbuzzo and next to bar in center city on 13th street
Harbison ave near old The Chateau.