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Top Amenities
- 24-Hour Front Desk
- Building Laundry Room
- Cat friendly
- Dog friendly
- Fitness Center
- Granite Countertops
- Minimum Lease Term
- Oversize or penthouse units
- Resident Lounge
- Short Term Rentals
- Stainless Steel Appliances
- Walk-in Closets
About this Location
8 min via 2 (bus)
restaurants nearby
BSL (metro) - 7 min
8 min walk
Pricing
Schedule Appointment At
(786) 403-0330-
Bedrooms
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Walk-in Closets
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Building Related
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Elevators
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Convenience
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Dry Cleaning Valet Service
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Entertainment
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Resident Lounge
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Included
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Sewage Included
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Trash/Recycling Included
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Kitchen
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Dishwasher
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Garbage Disposal
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Granite Countertops
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Microwave
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Laundry
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Building Laundry Room
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Lease Terms
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Application Fee
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Common Amenity Fee
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Minimum Lease Term
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Online Rent Payment
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Other Fees
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Security Deposit
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Living Room
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Air Conditioning
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Wall-to-Wall Carpets
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Parking & Transportation
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Parking Nearby
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Pet Terms & Amenities
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Cat fee
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Cat friendly
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Dog fee
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Dog friendly
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Max Pet Weight
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Max Pets Limit
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Security & Maintenance
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24-Hour Front Desk
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Sports & Fitness
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Fitness Center
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Unique Unit Types
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Oversize or penthouse units
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Overall rating 6.8/10, based on 42 renter reviews Write a review
The Drake reviews and highlights
- Recently renovated
- Elevators are really quick
- Relatively quiet street
- Convenient amenities, but lacking some of the features of newer luxury buildings
- Great staff and responsive management
- Best value for price in Center City
- Close to Rittenhouse Square
- Nice, but small gym
- Laundry room is great
- Free heat and hot water is great, but the units can run really hot even in the winter
- Units are incredibly clean
- Very safe neighborhood
- Parking can be a challenge
- Lots of bars and restaurants nearby
- Sound-proof walls
- Lots of light on upper floors
- Great apartment building
- Friendly doorman staff
- Nice community feel
- Although the building is old, the interiors are very up-to-date
Friendly building
Drake is a beautiful old fashioned building with great staff at the reception and in the management office. Upper floors have more light. Apartments are spacious. Carpets are on the floors. Heating system is old but works fine, A/C is a bit annoying as it's built in the wall. In the summer is loud and in the winter the cold comes through it inside the apartment. But nothing that would be unbearable. There is a laundry room and a small gym. We really enjoy living here. If you are looking for the best value for your money, Drake is your answer.
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Couple
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1 bed / 1 bath
Very pleased with The Drake
The Drake is a great building. For the size unit you get with a 24 hr doorman the price is unbeatable. The management staff are very responsive and friendly. The gym is your standard alright apartment gym. No in-apartment washers/dryers but Ive never had to wait in the laundry room for a unit. In the winter the building runs very hot, even when its freezing outside I always have my windows open with no heat on in my apartment. The building is older but before I moved in my walls were repainted, carpet was re-done, and though it certainly didnt have the most modern kitchen it was incredibly clean and looked great for moving in. Before I came to Philly I didnt think having a 24 hour doorman would matter much, but it does once you become addicted to Amazon Prime. The location is ok to good. Its a farther walk to campus (35 min door-to-door at a fast pace) but its much closer to the restaurants and bars that most people go to compared with many other buildings that are West of Rittenhouse. Also its a safer area than some more expensive apartments west of Rittenhouse. However, if I were to do it again Id find an apartment near the downtown Trolley stop at Market & 15th, that would make commuting to school so much easier than for everyone else.
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1 bed / 1 bath
I've had a great experience at The Drake.
The building is old but the apartments have been re-done on the inside with updated appliances, etc. Because it's a high-rise building, the apartments don't have a lot of personality but I think the amenities like a front desk, mailroom, laundry room, etc. make up for that. I've found management to be very responsive to maintenance and other requests (the building also offers less than 12 months leases). Although the location is a little bit farther from Rittenhouse Square than some other buildings, it's very affordable for a spacious 2BR/BA.
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Roommates
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2 beds / 2 baths
Good, but old building.
I'd say that the price per value on this building is probably the best in Philly (for high rises). A bit too far from school.
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Roommates
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2 beds / 2 baths
The Drake: Great, affordable, moderately luxurious experience
My experience at the Drake has been great: my apartment is recently renovated and spacious. The building amenities, including the gym, are in great condition and I use them often. The apartment is competitively priced and the staff is friendly. The location is relatively far from campus but well situated for social events and for visiting establishments in Center City.
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Roommates
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2 beds / 2 baths
Affordable, nice, spacious building
Great building. Quite inexpensive, spacious, a convenient location for the bars and restaurants that we students often visit, nice construction, convenient features and amenities like a huge laundry room, pretty nice gym, doorman. The one and only issue I have with the building is that over the course of the school year I saw about 4 roaches, which is really gross but I guess it happens.
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Roommates
Spacious floorplans and convenient location
Great functional layout for the apartment makes it feel larger than it is. Easy access to shopping and transportation to campus. Relatively quiet street with very easy access to busier streets. Parking can be a challenge. Free heat and hot water are great amenities, but the heaters are not controllable despite having apparent control knobs. This lack has only rarely resulted in the apartment being too warm or too cold.
We have no complaints!
The Drake Apartments have been a great option for my two roommates and I. It is a few blocks off Rittenhouse Square so we do not pay the 'on-park' premium and our building is very pleasant. 24-hour doorman, on site leasing office for questions and service requests on the spot, gym and laundry mat in the building, and plenty elevators that are quick. Also, our unit is a three bedroom and very spacious.
Love the community at the Drake!
Nicer building for smaller apartments with smaller windows. For me the doorman, the community feel to it, responsive management and the finishes were worth it. The only problem with the Drake is that it's a bit farther away than other options at a similar price. I like the Drake's old-style and the fact that it has every amenity: doorman, gym, lots of laundry machines, and a CVS in the corner.
The Drake is great!!
Amenities include gym (with 3 tvs and plenty of available machines), laundryroom (with plenty of available machines), fast elevators, nice staff, sound-proof walls (ability to play music loudly), all necessary stores on same block (CVS, drycleaner, small grocery, shoe repair, 3 restaurants)
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Couple
The Neighborhood
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About Rittenhouse Square
Getting around Rittenhouse Square
PATCO (rail)
BSL
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2 (bus)
27 (bus)
40 (bus)
12 (bus)
Parking Near The Drake
Town Garage
PARKWAY Pine & Hicks Lot
Latimer Garage
Rittenhouse Square Reviews
Spruce Street in particular is great - it's a little south of the square, so is quieter/shielded from a lot of the traffic that the neighborhood gets, but it's not out of the way or far away. There's a Starbucks, a grocery store (Rittenhouse Market), and a few corner stores (Four Seasons and Food & Friends) within a 2-3 minute walk of my apartment.