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Unofficial map of the neighborhoods of Philadelphia Philadelphia Planning Analysis sections. 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.
In the 1960s, six major Philadelphia gangs maintained a major presence in a 10.5 block area of Mantua. Between 1960 and 1969, Mantua recorded about 10% of total city gang killings. Mantua became one of the worst areas of the 16th precinct, and the Philadelphia Police Department often assigned patrols in Mantua to officers as punishment.
Market Street, originally known as High Street, is a major east–west highway and street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The street is signed as Pennsylvania Route 3 between 38th Street ( U.S. Route 13 ) and 15th Street ( PA 611 ).
Center City at night in May 2007 Logan Circle in 2011 Philadelphia City Hall at night in December 2012. Among Center City's neighborhoods and districts are Penn's Landing, Old City, Society Hill, South Street, Washington Square West, Market East, Chinatown, Logan Square, the Museum District (located along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway), Rittenhouse Square, Fitler Square, the Avenue of the Arts ...
Rittenhouse Square is maintained by the non-profit group The Friends of Rittenhouse Square. [2] The square cuts off 19th Street at Walnut Street and also at a half-block above Manning Street. Its boundaries are 18th Street to the east, Walnut Street to the north, and Rittenhouse Square West, a north–south boundary street, and Rittenhouse ...
Logan is a neighborhood in the upper North Philadelphia section of the city of Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The majority of the neighborhood falls within the 19141 zip code, but some of it falls within 19140. Olney Avenue extends from both the Olney and Logan neighborhoods of the city.
Washington Square West is a neighborhood in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The neighborhood roughly corresponds to the area between 7th and Broad Streets and between Chestnut and South Streets, bordering on the Independence Mall tourist area directly northeast, Market East to the north, Old City and Society Hill to the East, Bella Vista directly south, Hawthorne to the ...
Southwest Philadelphia is also described by the city as being the area south of Baltimore Avenue; [2] at the turn of the 20th century, Baltimore Avenue between 49th and 52nd Streets was known as "The Hub of Southwest Philadelphia" . [3]