What is your favorite street in Baltimore? (Riverside, University Park: apartments, houses) - Maryland (MD) - City-Data Forum

Borntoolate85 · 04-05-2018, 09:26 AM

For the sake of this thread, I've included a bunch of streets that are among the city's most notable or popular, based on attractions, importance, and much more. Include streets that change names as well.

I voted for St. Paul St./Light Street. It isn't nearly as iconic as Charles a block west, but it perhaps has the nicest collection of buildings along its route. Beginning just south of Loyola University where it separates from Charles, it begins as a quaint, suburban-like street through the west side of Guilford with some of the nicest single-family housing in the city. But less than a mile later, as it crosses University Parkway, it enters Charles Village by transforming into an urban thoroughfare, beginning with some dense development including some apartments, JHU housing, and some nice shopping, followed by a lot of turn-of-the-20th century rowhouses that are quite large in the southern portion of the neighborhood. South of 27th street, some more late 1800's rowhouses present in an area that has signs of renewal, even if its still sketchy at times, but there are a few cool hole-in-the-wall restaurants around 25th street, along with the under-the-radar Lovely Lane museum. It then passes a quiet stretch of Station North, and then as it passes over the Falls and JFX, the wonderful collection of historic apartment high-rises and rowhouses of Mount Vernon follows. As you transition to downtown at Centre Street, the street divides into two, with the Preston Gardens Park in between providing an urban oasis between the Mercy complex (where my mother was born!) and the skyscrapers on the upper portion of the road, before rejoining at Lexington Street and passing through one of the most vibrant stretches of downtown (changing to Light Street at Baltimore), leading to the west side of the Inner Harbor and the newest skyscraper in the city, passing by the Science Center, and then through a vibrant section of Federal Hill shopping, and then more rowhouses with occassional restaurants through South Baltimore before it ends just south of I-95. Let's not forget the CityLink Silver route that serves this street for much of its five-mile length. So, what's your favorite street in Charm City?