The Rebirth of Bankhead Seafood
Rappers Killer Mike and T.I. are angling to bring back the hallowed restaurant, which served fish “so darn good it blocked traffic on Fridays.” It will reopen in a rapidly changing neighborhood.
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Donald Lee Hollowell Pkwy.
Donald Lee Hollowell Pkwy.
Is There Room for Longtime Residents in “That New Atlanta”?
With a marquee greenspace, a planned Microsoft campus, and other flashy new developments, Grove Park and Bankhead are ground zero for Atlanta gentrification. What happens to the people who are already there?
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Tasteless Beginnings in Grove Park
The neighborhood’s unusual street names—Gertrude Place, Evelyn Place, et al—can be attributed to its original developer: the real estate baron and medicine magnate Edwin Wiley Grove.
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Paces Ferry Rd.
A Man, a Plan, a Canal . . . Atlanta!
Originally named Terminus, the Georgia capital was a railroad town that became an automobile town. Did we miss an opportunity to become the Venice of the Southeast?
Read MoreClairmont Rd.
Clairmont Rd.
Cascade Rd.
Cascade Rd.
Who Gets a Grocery Store?
There’s an abundance of supermarkets on Cascade Road near I-285—but elsewhere in Southwest Atlanta, they can be few and far between.
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Southwest Atlanta’s Rising Restaurant Hotspot
New concepts from Deborah VanTrece, Shema Fulton, and others are upping the food options in an area that’s long been underserved—and turning Cascade Heights into a dining destination.
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DeKalb Ave.
What’s the Most Hated Street in Atlanta? (And Why Is It DeKalb Avenue?)
Plus: readers sound off on the bumpiest rides in metro ATL
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Atlanta magazine asked our followers on Instagram to tell us which local street they liked the least, and why. Responses were voluminous, vociferous—and not entirely unpredictable.
DeKalb Avenue
242
Howell Mill Road
25
Moreland Avenue
24
Piedmont Road
20
All of them
15
The rest, combined
101
Peachtrees
Peachtrees
Peachtree Streets: The Not Really Definitive Ranking
Metro Atlanta famously has scores of street names—71, by one count—that include the word Peachtree. We ranked ’em all. (Or, at least, as many as we could find on the map.)
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WHAT’S THE MOST ATLANTA STREET? A COLLOQUY
Edgewood Avenue: Where our perpetual conundrums remain
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Moreland Avenue: where Atlanta’s past meets its future
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Howell Mill Rd.
One Night at Northside Tavern
Amid a landscape of shiny new “West Midtown” development, a shabby old blues club is an oasis of old-school debauchery.
Read MoreCleveland Ave.
Cleveland Ave.
Raised on Bleveland
In the news recently for its links to gang violence, Cleveland Avenue could represent much more than that. It just needs a little push.
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name
A visit to Che Butter Jonez, one of Southwest Atlanta’s happiest little restaurants
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Ponce de Leon Ave.
Atlanta’s Greenest Parkway
Why Frederick Law Olmsted’s linear parks are more relevant now than ever
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Headland Dr.
The Start of Something Good
Los Angeles has Crenshaw Boulevard and Queens has Linden Boulevard. In Atlanta, OutKast put the intersection of Headland and Delowe on the musical map.
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Eyes on the Street
In intimate documentary portraits from East Point—Headland Drive and the surrounding area—photographer Rita Harper reminds us that you don’t have to be famous to have a story worth telling.
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