BANK STREET runs from Baird Boulevard and Carman Street southwest, crossing Marlton Pike, and continuing to Admiral Wilson Boulevard, where it ends. When the 1947 city directory was compiled there were only four houses on Bank Street, in the 2500 block. A block of apartments were later built nearby, these were condemned as unfit for human habitation around 1990 and razed a few years later. A few single family homes had also built on Bank Street between Boyd Street and Admiral Wilson Boulevard between 1947 and 1951. Bank Street acquired a very bad reputation in the late 1980s and all through the 1990s as part of the open-air drug market known as "the Alley", which centered on the alley one end of which was on Bank Street between Morse and Boyd Streets. A few new homes now stand on Bank Street, erected as part of the McGuire Gardens redevelopment undertaken by the Housing Authority of the City of Camden and brought to a successful completion under the leadership of Dr. Maria Marquez in the early 2000s. |
Do you have an Bank Street memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here. Phil
Cohen |
2200
Block of Bank Street |
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2257 Bank Street 1950s-1970s Nicholas Manzi |
2500 Block of Bank Street |
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2524 Bank Street 1940 Joseph Miller |
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2526 Bank Street 1940 James A. Price |
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2526 & 2524 Bank Street July 31, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge |
2530 Bank Street 1940 Peter Caughey |
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2532 Bank Street 1940-1965 |
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2540 Bank Street |
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Looking North From in front of 2524
Bank Street Click on Image to Enlarge |
2600 Block of Bank Street |
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Looking North From South 26th Street
& Bank Street Click on Image to Enlarge |
2600 Block of Bank Street |
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26074 Bank Street 1967 Mrs. Mary Huhn |