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  2. List of Philadelphia placename etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Market Street was previously known as High Street, part of William Penn's original names for the city of Philadelphia. Manayunk. The neighborhood's name comes from the word "manaiung," place where we go to drink, in the language of the Lenape [4] Martin Luther King Jr. Drive [5]

  3. List of Philadelphia neighborhoods - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia has 41 ZIP -codes, which are often used for neighborhood analysis. [1] Historically, many neighborhoods were defined by incorporated townships (Blockley, Roxborough), districts (Belmont, Kensington, Moyamensing, Richmond) or boroughs (Bridesburg, Frankford, Germantown, Manayunk) before being incorporated into the city with the Act ...

  4. Category:Streets in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania Route 63. Pennsylvania Route 73. Pennsylvania Route 232. Pennsylvania Route 291. Pennsylvania Route 532. Pennsylvania Route 611. Penrose Avenue. Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike. Powelton Avenue.

  5. List of tallest buildings in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia, the largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, is home to more than 300 completed high-rise buildings up to 330 feet (101 m), [1] and 58 completed skyscrapers of 330 feet (101 m) or taller, [2] of which 34 are 400 feet (122 m) or taller and are listed below. As of 2018, the tallest building in the city is the 60-story Comcast ...

  6. Elfreth's Alley - Wikipedia

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    Elfreth's Alley is a historic street in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dating to 1703. The street has 32 houses, built between 1703 and 1836. The Elfreth's Alley Museum is located at #124 and 126. The alley, a National Historic Landmark, runs from North Front to North 2nd streets, paralleling Arch and Quarry streets.

  7. South Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    The Odunde Festival, arguably the largest street festival in Philadelphia, is an African-American celebration that is held annually in the South Street area. As of 2013, those who identified as "Black alone" or in combination with another ethnicity totaled 45,482 persons living in the zip codes 19145, 19146, 19147 and 19148. [26]

  8. Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia, commonly referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia is the nation's sixth-most populous city, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census and is the urban core of the larger Delaware Valley (or Philadelphia metropolitan area), the nation's seventh-largest and one of the world's largest metropolitan regions consisting of ...

  9. Broad Street (Philadelphia) - Wikipedia

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    1682. Broad Street is a major arterial street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The street runs for approximately 13 miles (21 km), beginning at the intersection of Cheltenham Avenue on the border of Cheltenham Township and the West / East Oak Lane neighborhoods of North Philadelphia to the Philadelphia Navy Yard in South Philadelphia.