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  2. Gentrification in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Gentrification is the controversial process of affluent people moving into a historically low-income neighborhood. [1] It is often criticized because the current residents have limited options to buy or rent equivalent housing in alternative areas at the same price. [2]

  3. North Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Roxborough, Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Roxborough is a neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.It is bordered to the southwest, along the Schuylkill River, by the neighborhood of Manayunk, along the northeast by the Wissahickon Creek section of Fairmount Park, and to the southeast by the neighborhood of East Falls.

  5. West Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    West Philadelphia, ... live among the ZIP codes of 19104, 19131, 19139 ... 67th Street where it turns off Chester Avenue and continues along PA Route 13 ...

  6. Frankford, Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Girard Avenue - Wikipedia

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    Girard Avenue (US 30) westbound past 38th Street in West Philadelphia. Girard Avenue was named for banker Stephen Girard (1750–1831) who, at his death, was the richest man in the United States [3] – who directed that his fortune be used to found a trade school for orphaned boys.

  8. Glen Mills, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Glen Mills is an unincorporated community in Concord Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States, located approximately 27 miles west of Philadelphia. The ZIP Code for Glen Mills is 19342.

  9. West Kensington, Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    West Kensington is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, ... It falls into the 19122 and 19133 ZIP codes. Demographics