The Bo­ston Street Gal­lery, in their 6th year, has been constantly picking up steam in the city’s art world. The gallery has been privileged  to show some of our remarkable Philadelphia artists and  has only been, since conception, show­n  Philadelphia area based artists.  Nestled in a res­id­en­tial corner of  Fishtown area, the Bo­ston Street Gal­lery, 2539 E. Bo­ston St., may have an ​un­as­sum­ing facade, but is a re­volving home to art from some of the most cre­at­ive, Phil­adelphia artists. 

    Jeffrey P. Har­ris, own­er of the Bo­ston Street Gal­lery, has been in­volved in the arts since the 1970s. Along with  producing art himself, he also had al­ways wanted to establish an art gal­lery.  Finally the cards fell in­to place for Jeff in 2015.
 I kind of thought about start­ing it at dif­fer­ent points in my past, but in 2015,  it just seemed to be more the right time.
While the gal­lery may be the only one around this neigh­bor­hood , formed in May 2015 and we held the first ex­hib­it in Septem­ber 2015.  The build­ing on Bo­ston Street has a long­stand­ing re­la­tion­ship with the arts.  Jeff has owned the build­ing since  1987 where he has always used the space primar­ily as a stu­dio for his own work.
“I bought [the build­ing] in 1987 and the neigh­bor­hood was vastly dif­fer­ent then,  It’s really like night and day,
both with tem­pera­ment and tol­er­ance.
Through the years, I has watched the neigh­bor­hood trans­form and its people pro­gress. From a neigh­bor­hood closed to the arts to one that val­ues the gal­lery next door, the rise of the Bo­ston Street Gal­lery is closely re­lated to the chan­ging tides of Fishtown.
“They’re de­vel­op­ing Frankford ave. in such a way, that it’s turn­ing in­to  what South Street used to be, and that’s really wild  to see all the changes happening around,” Har­ris said.
Har­ris’ dream of turn­ing his prop­erty in­to a gal­lery space has not come without its chal­lenges. From fight­ing with the city over past ten­ant is­sues to en­coun­ter­ing a then less-than-ac­com­mod­at­ing neigh­bor­hood to his Afric­an Amer­ic­an wife, turn­ing the space in­to a prop­er gal­lery seemed like a pipe dream for some time. 
As times pro­gressed and the gentri­fic­a­tion of Fishtown began, bring­ing in new artists and people.  The cul­ture for a gal­lery to thrive began to emerge. Now, Boston Street Gallery is open­ing the gal­lery’s door for its 6th year and have recently started BY­OB paint events  that are run by wife/partner , Marie.  “The BY­OB art classes are totally not ser­i­ous.  They’ll prob­ably be more about drink­ing for most. 
Aside from in­ject­ing a bit more cul­ture in­to an already artist­ic neigh­bor­hood, Har­ris also aims to high­light loc­al artists.   “We’ve al­ways had such a prob­lem in the past and have al­most taken second fiddle to New York in some ways, and I don’t think that really is the case any­more,  I think there’s a lot of good work and a lot of work in many dif­fer­ent av­en­ues, not just a clas­sic ap­proach that Phil­adelphia is really well known for.
I hope that the gal­lery con­tin­ues to grow and draws new in­terest in art from loc­als,
but we need your financial support especially these days, so come purchase some amazing artwork, so we can keep supporting Philadelphia Artists!

• BOSTON STREET GALLERY

2539 east boston street. 
Philadelphia,  Pa.19125
215.739.4999
bostonstreetgallery@gmail.com
www.bostonstreetartgallery.com

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the newest and hottest area of PHILADELHIA .   Fishtown,  has emerged as Philly’s truest harbor of artistic, culinary and musical action.
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Fishtown is a neighborhood in Philadelphia located immediately northeast of center city.  The name "Fishtown" is derived from the area's former role as the center of the shad fishing industry on the Delaware river. The name comes from the fact that a number of 18th and early 19th centuries German and German-american families bought up the fishing rights on both sides of the Delaware River from Trenton Falls down to Cape May, N.J.

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