Every Street Philly

the map

The whole city, one run at a time.

Browse the routes, filter by date, and see the streets still waiting.

why do this

The city of Philadelphia was established in 1682.

Philadelphia contains 3,937 streets, depending on who is counting, what qualifies as a street, and whether certain alleys, ramps, service roads, and suspicious asphalt appendages have successfully completed the necessary paperwork.

So ya run em where they are: broad avenues, dead-ends, industrial access, half-blocks, forgotten lanes, and streets that appear completely ordinary on the map but turn out to be a fence, a staircase, a loading dock, &c., &c.,

To pass through every street in Philadelphia is to move through an unusually broad cross-section of American life— rowhomes and skyscrapers, schoolyards and warehouses, shrines, murals, corner bars, corner shops, houses o worship, and memory all at once.