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9 Yong Siak Street

📍 9B YONG SIAK STREET
🗺️ D03 — Tiong Bahru, Queenstown, Alexandra
🏢 MCST 2470Apartment · Retail✓ Management Directory

About 9 Yong Siak Street

9 Yong Siak Street (Singapore 168645) is a pre-war Tiong Bahru address with a shop unit at street level and walk-up flats, 9A and 9B, above it. It is in postal District 3 (Tiong Bahru, Queenstown, Alexandra). OneMap lists it under Tiong Bahru Estate, the Singapore Improvement Trust housing built between 1936 and 1941, and the strata lots are managed by MCST 2470. The completion year of this particular block could not be verified.

For most Singaporeans the address is tied to one tenant. The independent bookshop BooksActually moved into the ground-floor shop in 2011 and stayed until 13 September 2020, when it closed the store and went online. During those nine years it helped turn a quiet residential street into a weekend destination.

Interesting facts

  • BooksActually began in 2005 on Telok Ayer Street and traded on Ann Siang Hill and Club Street before settling at 9 Yong Siak Street.

  • Other independent businesses followed. The bakery Plain Vanilla moved its flagship to Yong Siak Street in 2013.

  • Wikipedia dates Tiong Bahru's gentrification to the mid-2000s, when cafes and boutiques began filling old provision-shop units in the conserved blocks.

  • The shop units were part of the original plan. By 1941 the estate had 33 shops alongside its 784 flats.

Nearby

Tiong Bahru MRT (East-West Line) is about ten minutes' walk, as is Havelock MRT (Thomson-East Coast Line). Tiong Bahru Market and hawker centre on Seng Poh Road is around five minutes away. Block 78 on Moh Guan Terrace and Guan Chuan Street, with a 1939 air raid shelter in its basement, is at the end of the street. Tiong Bahru Plaza is next to the MRT station. Zhangde Primary School is on Jalan Membina.

Key facts

  • Address: 9 Yong Siak Street (units 9A and 9B), Tiong Bahru Estate, Singapore 168645

  • District: 3 (Tiong Bahru, Queenstown, Alexandra)

  • Property type: Walk-up apartments with ground-floor retail, conserved pre-war SIT block

  • Completed: Estate built 1936 to 1941; year for this block not verified

  • Developer: Singapore Improvement Trust

  • Tenure: Pre-war Tiong Bahru flats are reported to be on 99-year leases dating from the mid-1960s; not verified for this block

  • Nearest MRT: Tiong Bahru (EW17), Havelock (TE16)

  • MCST: 2470