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The following is a list of neighborhoods, districts and other places located in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The list is organized by broad geographical sections within the city. Common usage for Philadelphia's neighborhood names does not respect "official" borders used by the city's police, planning commission or ...
21st century. Today, the Main Line is another name for the western suburbs of Philadelphia along Lancaster Avenue (U.S. Route 30) and the former main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad and extending from the city limits to, traditionally, Bryn Mawr and ultimately Paoli, [12] an area of about 200 square miles (520 km 2).
October 9, 1960. Elfreth's Alley is a historic street in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, dating back to 1703. [2] The street has 32 houses, built between 1703 and 1836. The Elfreth's Alley Museum is located at #124 and 126. [2][3] The alley, a National Historic Landmark, runs from North Front to North 2nd streets, paralleling Arch ...
West Philadelphia. Coordinates: 39.975709°N 75.2129°W. West Philadelphia. Neighborhood of Philadelphia. West Philadelphia, looking west from Calvary United Methodist Church at 48th Street and Baltimore Pike. Nickname: West Philly. A map showing West Philadelphia in relation to the rest of the city. Country.
Commissioned. 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.
Formerly known as Cedar Street (originally one of William Penn's streets named for trees, in this case cedar trees), it is the original southern border of the city of Philadelphia, before the 1854 Act of Consolidation. Susquehanna Avenue. Named after the Susquehanna River and Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Spruce Street.
Thomas Holme's Survey Map (1687) Frankford is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia situated about six miles (10 km) northeast of Center City.Although its borders are vaguely defined, the neighborhood is bounded roughly by the original course of Frankford Creek on the south to Castor Avenue on the northwest and southwest, to Cheltenham Avenue on the north, and to Aramingo ...
North Philadelphia, nicknamed North Philly, is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is immediately north of Center City. Though the full extent of the region is somewhat vague, "North Philadelphia" is regarded as everything north of either Vine Street or Spring Garden Street, between Northwest Philadelphia and Northeast Philadelphia.