York Place, Edinburgh

The street's architecture remains almost completely intact but it is one of the busiest streets in the city centre being part of the main east-west route for traffic together with the Edinburgh Trams line and several bus services.

York Place was developed as a dual sided street on the north-east edge of Edinburgh's First New Town.

The only major change has been the demolition of the east side of Elder Street on the south side including the east corner with York Place, in 1969 (to improve access to the bus station).

This all changed in 1921 following unification of Edinburgh and Leith (which had electric trams since 1905) when a complex of poles and wires were added, to the severe detriment of the streetscape.

A new permanent stop opened on nearby Picardy Place in June 2023 after completion of the line extension.