Camden Streets - Bank Street

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
Friday, August 25, 2006

2200, 2300, 2400 Blocks of Bank Street
	PLAT Showing proposed site Project No. N.J.10-4 Camden, N.J. Peter J. McGuire Gardens February 14, 1951 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Morse & Bank Streets Click on Image to Enlarge
	191 Morse Street Southwest Corner Morse & Bank Streets July 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Looking South on Bank Street from alongside 201 Morse Street February 14, 1951 Click on Image to Enlarge
	191 Morse Street Morse & Bank Streets July 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Looking West on Morse Street from Bank Street July 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Looking West on Morse Street from Bank Street July 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Northeast Corner Morse & Bank Street July 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Northeast Corner Morse & Bank Street July 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Looking East on Morse Street from Bank Street July 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Southeast Corner Morse & Bank Street July 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Southeast Corner Morse & Bank Street (203 & 201 Morse Street) July 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge

2500 Block of Bank Street
	2524 Bank Street 1947 Gustav Wirth
	2526 Bank Street 1947 Mrs. Mary Bisanti
	2526 & 2524 Bank Street July 31, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge
	2530 Bank Street 1947 George F. MacKenzie
	2532 Bank Street 1947 Thomas J. Carr
	Looking North on Bank Street From in front of 2524 Bank Street July 31, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge