Public Housing

The West Park Apartments playground faces the North Tower

The view is toward the North Tower.

This photo shows the South Tower in its landscaped setting.

The view is east toward the elevator towers of West Park Apartments in West Powelton. These refurbished “towers in the park” constitute the only remaining high-rise public housing project in West Philadelphia.

The controversial suburban-like ambience of Lucien E. Blackwell Homes.

Looking west from N. Markoe St., the western boundary of Lucien E. Blackwell Homes. Shown here in their proximity to Parkway West High School (formerly Sulzberger Middle/Junior High School) are Lucien E. Blackwell Park and Lucien E. Black Community Center. The park is bounded east to west by N. Markoe and N. 47th Street. It lies on the buried floodplain of the Mill Creek sewer. Running along the base of the high school embankment, N. 47th Street charts the path of the buried sewer. 

N. Markoe St., opposite Lucien E. Blackwell Park and Parkway West High School (formerly Sulzberger Middle/Junior High School), marks the western boundary of Lucien E. Blackwell Homes

Lucien E. Blackwell Homes. N. 45th St. between Fairmount Ave. & Aspen St. spans a landscape that once housed the three apartment towers of Mill Creek Homes.