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Street fairs, community clean-up days, a robust Community Association, and numerous volunteer opportunities typify life in East Falls. The recently completed Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and Education Center offers instruction to Philadelphia youth in a 9.2-acre (37,000 m 2 ), sixteen-court facility that operates in cooperation with the City of ...
A planned community transformation was thwarted in 2005, when Donald Trump proposed locating a casino in the former Budd factory. [30] This plan fell through because of community protests. Proponents of the proposed casino claimed that it would bring more business to East Falls, while the East Falls Community Council argued that crime would ...
Southwest Philadelphia (formerly Kingsessing Township) is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that can be described as extending from the western side of the Schuylkill River to the city line, with the northern border defined by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission as east from the city line along Baltimore Avenue moving south along ...
Ravenhill is a Renaissance Revival mansion at 3480–90 School House Lane in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia. [1] Designed by architect Willis Gaylord Hale and completed in 1887, the suburban house was built for chemical manufacturer William Weightman. [1]
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.
Curtis J. Jones Jr. (born 1956 or 1957) [1] is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Philadelphia City Council.In 2007, he was elected to represent the 4th District, which covers parts of North, Northwest, and West Philadelphia.
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East Falls station is a station located along the Manayunk/Norristown Line in the East Falls section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at Midvale Avenue & Cresson Street and includes a 51 space parking lot. In FY 2017, East Falls station had a weekday average of 835 boardings and 752 alightings. [4]