Philadelphia, PA.

The Gallery At Market East

User Reviews of The Gallery At Market East

Yelp.com Review - by eric t.

1.0 of 5 stars. they should level this place and NOT put a casino there. you would be substituting the high school delinquents that hang out here all day for middle age and senior citizens delinquents who will be...
yelp.com - user review - 04/24/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Jen R.

1.0 of 5 stars. Back in the good old days I would take the train to the Gallery right from school and it was cool. Now, not so much. It stinks really bad. The Gallery is home to many stores I would normally shop at...
yelp.com - user review - 04/20/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Andrea L.

2.0 of 5 stars. This place reeks of urban deterioration (mental, physical, emotional) and shady characters, but not the worst place to kill time while waiting for the next SEPTA train. Enough chain stores to amuse...
yelp.com - user review - 04/19/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Jixolet M.

1.0 of 5 stars. OK, if you're one of those people that likes being a witness to ghetto fights, attitudes, possible beatings or robberies, than come here for your life threatening fun. Coming here to get to the...
yelp.com - user review - 04/19/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by aaron s.

1.0 of 5 stars. north philly youth needs somewhere to go when they come to center city to get away from fatherless households, so why not keep me company? the gallery...where to begin. its dirty. everyone knows that...
yelp.com - user review - 04/17/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Gordon C.

1.0 of 5 stars. This place is a dump.....they need to change it to a casino..fo' real!! Most of the good retailers are either out of business or just plain gone! And what's up with all these teenagers hanging out...
yelp.com - user review - 03/03/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Patricia L.

1.0 of 5 stars. I had a dream I went to hell and I was stuck in the gallery, in the middle of a gang of teenagers looking for their babies daddy. Oh auntie em help me!
yelp.com - user review - 02/14/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by LOUISE M.

1.0 of 5 stars. The gallery sucks!!! Forget the stores..........lets mention the dirty food court, homeless people harrassing customers and at times getting violent (I've witnessed it 1st hand), and the security...
yelp.com - user review - 02/06/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Jason T.

1.0 of 5 stars. If some out-of-towner who's never been to our fair city gripes about it being dirty, or dangerous, or any of that oher crap that can go part and parcel with most any frickin' big city on the planet,...
yelp.com - user review - 01/21/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Mandi C.

1.0 of 5 stars. What can I say that hasn't already been said? This is the worst mall I think I've been to. No good stores really (I mean...one of their big anchor stores is K-Mart. Seriously?), too many annoying...
yelp.com - user review - 01/18/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Andy H.

1.0 of 5 stars. What can I say?! It's the place we all love to hate. The place where everyone in the city shops because there simply is nowhere else in the city to shop (believe me they wouldn't come here if it...
yelp.com - user review - 01/02/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by lena n.

1.0 of 5 stars. must you even ask!?!?! the gallery is the most ghettoest MALL EVER!! it FREAKIN REEKS OF PISS. i swear to god! the last time i ever went to this mall was in high school, when there wasnt much ghetto...
yelp.com - user review - 01/02/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Jason W.

1.0 of 5 stars. Yeah this place is ghetto....real ghetto not fun ghetto...It is not fun to shop. I got grabbed by a drunk homeless person but that is not even scary though. I dont like the shops either. I just went...
yelp.com - user review - 12/19/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jing G.

1.0 of 5 stars. I'll try to give an objective review. Firstly, the store variety. Um, what? I don't know, I could not tell if they had even one store selling clothes for my age set that was not for hookers. They...
yelp.com - user review - 11/14/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Steve G.

1.0 of 5 stars. This mall is an embarrassment to one of the most highly trafficked areas of the city. It's a shame that the Gallery lies right in the middle of some of the city's most visited areas (Independence...
yelp.com - user review - 10/28/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by h. t.

3.0 of 5 stars. i love their food court but their shopping options arent amazing... it might of had something to do w/ the fact that i was w/ my dad, my brother and his friend.... that could be y i thought it was soo...
yelp.com - user review - 10/08/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Meg C.

1.0 of 5 stars. I have thought long and hard about the potential Foxwoods Casino slated to be build on top of the Gallery. I have found that I am totally ambivalent to the project, which says a lot.Even though I hate...
yelp.com - user review - 09/24/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Chris S.

1.0 of 5 stars. I swear their food court is the mecca for Philly's finest parolee's and other sketchy figures.This mall is GHETTO. That's right...ALL CAPS GHETTO. Do yourself a favor and at least head up to KoP mall...
yelp.com - user review - 09/21/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Pat D.

1.0 of 5 stars. Would love to give NO STARS.EEEEKK. I just heard on the news today that one of the casinos is considering the floors above the Gallery as a potential site for a casino. WTF??!!! Have they actually...
yelp.com - user review - 09/11/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Vicki M.

4.0 of 5 stars. Oh come on. The Gallery isn't /that/ bad.I don't love the stores inside of it, but sometimes you need to hit up Old Navy for khakis on the cheap. Yes, it is overrun with teens, but I've never had a...
yelp.com - user review - 08/30/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Alex K.

1.0 of 5 stars. HAHAHAHA these reviews are hilarious, why not add my shitstained 1-star review for a shitstained 0-star shopping mall. You guys might get a laugh from this, but please don't get offended.As many have...
yelp.com - user review - 08/26/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by jen d.

2.0 of 5 stars. i grew up in the shopping mall mecca of bergen county, nj so i'm accustomed to gigantic shopping extravaganza places bigger than king of prussia, spotlessly clean, bright and airy with the faint aroma...
yelp.com - user review - 08/26/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Karen F.

1.0 of 5 stars. It's the hood of all malls. There is nothing here to speak of. on a very rare occaision i will go to the Old Navy (which is nearly always picked over and dis-shelveled.) I also once dained to get...
yelp.com - user review - 08/22/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Mark P.

1.0 of 5 stars. If it didn't suck so bad it would be great!!If you need sneakers or sports jerseys go here...anything else stay far far away
yelp.com - user review - 08/22/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by donna b.

2.0 of 5 stars. Wow so much to say about this one, I'll try to stick with a few gripes and keep it moving. #1 Gripe- They Close way way too early. In a city that constantly speaks on drawing more visitors to the...
yelp.com - user review - 08/12/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jamie S.

5.0 of 5 stars. This place is at the corner of Dope Street and Fly Avenue. Bought a nice pair of Air Max here back in the spring of 2004, got to talking with the clerk and he verified my Mass license, and he says...
yelp.com - user review - 08/07/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jenny G.

2.0 of 5 stars. Each time I go to the Gallery at lunch, upon my return to work, I ask my friends "why did you let me do it?" Rarely am I pleased with my experience, save for the Nine West Outlet (damn you cute...
yelp.com - user review - 08/07/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Lene P.

5.0 of 5 stars. Man, back in the day, I was ALWAYS at the Gallery. My friends/sister would always flirt with the guys here. I would always buy rap/r&b singles at Sam Goody, buy Nautica/Tommy Hilfiger/Ralph...
yelp.com - user review - 07/23/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Andy S.

1.0 of 5 stars. Complete and utter dump. I would never go anywhere near this hole if it weren't for the Market East station, and I suspect many other people wouldn't either (well, except for all the bums/losers who...
yelp.com - user review - 07/13/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by megan k.

1.0 of 5 stars. when i was a kid,i would cut school, hop on the el, and hide out in here. i went back this year, and i was scared. no reason to ever go back in there. i felt unsafe. it gave me the creeps.
yelp.com - user review - 06/17/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jenny R.

2.0 of 5 stars. This place is what it is. I don't understand how people don't expect putting a mall in the middle of Center City Philadelphia won't end up in a disaster.But some highlights:Gamestop: Lots of geeks and...
yelp.com - user review - 06/16/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Johnathan H.

1.0 of 5 stars. I can't believe how bad the Gallery is now. When I was a kid, I remember this place being my second favorite place to go, right after Kiddie City. When I got back to Philly as an adult, I was at...
yelp.com - user review - 06/14/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by David T.

1.0 of 5 stars. Why don't we stop pretending that there's anything of interest to visitors in the Gallery (unless they've never seen a Payless store before) and just call it what it is: an urban mistake. The only...
yelp.com - user review - 05/23/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jake V.

2.0 of 5 stars. The Gallery is a funny place. It's bizarro mall that doesn't have the store you know, it has a store that is the other-world equivalent of it. So, instead of Gap, it has Net. All of these stores...
yelp.com - user review - 04/04/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by josh f.

1.0 of 5 stars. Biggest shart hole EVAR. look for young punks being assholes, stores that sell shit goods, and 1000 cellphone accessory stores. Don't buy from the impromptu store people. They will stamp on the back...
yelp.com - user review - 04/03/2008
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Crowded, loud by Kathleen L. at InsiderPages

For me, going to the Gallery means that I'm taking the train and have to get off at that stop and walk through the mall to get someplace else. I might stop for a soda & a soft pretzel, but as for actually...
citysearch.com - user review - 03/22/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Daniel M.

5.0 of 5 stars. When Ed Bacon came down from upon high at Fairmount Park, he brought with him a two stone tablets containing the plans for The Gallery, a suburban shopping mall that would completely cut off Market...
yelp.com - user review - 03/06/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Colin C.

4.0 of 5 stars. sigh. Like the Jan Brady to Walnut Street's Marsha, the Gallery has some blemishes and a few personality disorders. I tried hanging out with her, at first because I felt pity, and then because I...
yelp.com - user review - 02/02/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Will L.

2.0 of 5 stars. on the plus side....a large kmartold navyon the minus side....everything else!i most often find myself in the gallery when i have an unusually long lunch break since i work basically across the street...
yelp.com - user review - 01/23/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Candice B.

3.0 of 5 stars. Let me tell you why I actually LIKE The Gallery.I work in Center City. I have no car. I can't shop in Size Two Pants That Cost $200. Convenient to me is a mall that houses a couple of shopping...
yelp.com - user review - 11/02/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Kelly S.

3.0 of 5 stars. This is not my favorite mall in the city. The stores don't really have much that I would want to buy. It's mostly cheap clothing that's not my style that doesn't last more than one or two washings....
yelp.com - user review - 09/17/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Bill M.

1.0 of 5 stars. A place that I only set foot in when my Septa train is running late enough to the point where I don't have anything better to do. and I really end up loathing every moment of it. the people watching...
yelp.com - user review - 07/14/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Chrissy R.

4.0 of 5 stars. The Gallery is the most conveniently located mall to public transportation in the Philadelphia area.Places like the Gap, New York & Co, Lane Bryant, SunCoast, Old Navy, Claires etc etc, are the same...
yelp.com - user review - 07/07/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Rickina C.

1.0 of 5 stars. Just stay home. I remember being dragged when I was little and always felt physically sick because it was so godawful. Most of the stores are elsewhere in the city or you can take the bus & just go to...
yelp.com - user review - 07/07/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Daniel D.

1.0 of 5 stars. I really dislike The Gallery. It's so run down, and neglected. I feel the need for a tetanus shot from passing by.
yelp.com - user review - 06/29/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Kimberly P.

3.0 of 5 stars. If you ever need to do a bit of shopping, don't go to the Gallery. The Gallery is a poor excuse for a mall. With a plethora of poorly run stores this "mall" is simply a place for juvenile delinquents...
yelp.com - user review - 06/26/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Susan G.

3.0 of 5 stars. Attention riders...located right in the heart of center city...to our (left/right) is....(long dramatic pause) The Ghetto mall.Here you can find...such places as Kmart, Express, Burlington Coat...
yelp.com - user review - 06/13/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Susan L.

3.0 of 5 stars. Okay okay everyone, let's stop hating on The Gallery and search for the good we know must be there.First, there is an Old Navy and a Cinnabon. Now why would you need to go anywhere else? Second, the...
yelp.com - user review - 04/06/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by kathleen t.

1.0 of 5 stars. this place has to be one of the circles of hell. otherwise, how else can you explain the heinousness of the people, shops, etc...the food court is never clean, there are homeless/crazies aplenty, and...
yelp.com - user review - 04/05/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Jake P.

2.0 of 5 stars. When rap stars come to Philly, this is the first place they go. Why?While I think it's helpful to have three floors of K-Mart in the busiest part of the city, there's not much I typically need in The...
yelp.com - user review - 03/02/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Caitlin C.

1.0 of 5 stars. The Gallery is to mall what the Dollar Store is to shopping.This place, although large, houses only the cheapest of businesses. Expect G&G, Claire's, K-Mart and other smaller companies that make money...
yelp.com - user review - 02/27/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Nicole R.

2.0 of 5 stars. My main experience with the Gallery is walking through it to get to the Market East station. There are too many damn people and most of the shops are not my style. Of course, I prefer thrift stores...
yelp.com - user review - 02/13/2007
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ugh

I hate this mall. Hate it with a passion. Sure, it's in a convenient area and has quite a few popula...
judysbook.com - user review - 04/07/2006
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Accesible shopping

The nice thing about shopping at the Gallery is that it is so easy to get to. Their is an el stop ri...
judysbook.com - user review - 02/24/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by cherie c.

3.0 of 5 stars. It's a mall. It has the usual mall stores. But it is right off the SEPTA hi-speed line, so it is convenient. Anchor stores have some good sales. At Christmas time they have some fun displays.
yelp.com - user review - 01/30/2006
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Crowded and hectic by Kelly D. at InsiderPages

I have been through this mall on several occasions since a subway stop lets off here and there are bathrooms. This is the only reason to go through this mall. It is crowded, dirty and hectic here. There aren't...
citysearch.com - user review - 10/17/2005
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Yelp.com Review - by Erin G.

3.0 of 5 stars. A mall I did not expect to find while waiting for the train. 4 floors of regular mall stores with pretty decent sales for being in downtown Philly.
yelp.com - user review - 08/13/2005
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A wonderful mall. by Kcuber 1. at InsiderPages

This is a great mall in downtown Philadelphia. The train stops right under the mall for easy access to and from. Great selection of stores and a wonderful food court.
citysearch.com - user review - 07/27/2005
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Great stores by Regina F. at InsiderPages

The Gallery on Market Street is a like a big mall. It has a lot of great stores including Gap, Kmart, and various clothing stores, as well as various shoe stores and perfume shops. They have a nice sized food...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/15/2005
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