South Street West

02/13/2026

On Monday, February 16, the city will be closed, and city services will be curtailed in observance of the President's Day holiday. Trash and recycling collections will resume on Tuesday, February 17. There will be no second trash collection for the week. Residents should set their materials out one day later than usual for the week of February 16 https://ow.ly/L2Pk50XVLah.

09/18/2025

Welcome back, Grace Tavern!

The neighborhood bar is opening under new ownership.

09/18/2025

09/18/2025

Join Center City Residents Association and Philly Bike Action to clean up the Pine St bike lane!

Attendees are encouraged to bring brooms, shovels, and gloves, but materials will also be provided. RSVP in bio.


🕐10am
🗓️September 27
📍Carlisle & Pine (just west of Broad)

07/01/2025

07/01/2025

The city"s sanitation workers are on strike, please bring trash to a designated drop-off site. 25th/Spruce and 18th/Catharine are the two closest locations to our corridor.

Consider storing food scraps in the freezer.

06/21/2025

Come join us for food, music, libations, and vendors at the second annual Up South Block Party on the 1500 block of South Street! The event is until 9:00 p.m.!

05/21/2025

Please note that trash pickup will be delayed one day next week due to the observance of Memorial Day. In anticipation, please be sure to set out trash in a timely manner this week during our second scheduled weekly pickup.

05/21/2025

Thank you, , for gifting Tiarella cordifolia and tufted hairgrass on PA Native Species Day, adding beauty and ecological value to the South Street West Commercial Corridor!

05/21/2025

Excellent long-form article on the proposed Crosstown Expressway that would have erased South Street and boxed Center City in highways, current efforts to remediate existing deleterious highway effects, and PennDOT's current and further intended widening of I-95.

A fight against the proposed Crosstown Expressway six decades ago echoes in today’s debates about easing Philadelphia traffic.