JIM HAMILL
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PHILADELPHIA NEIGHBORHOODS

PHILADELPHIA
​Philadelphia is a city of neighborhoods...or so I'm told.  New York is a city of neighborhoods.  Chicago is a city of neighborhoods.  Philadelphia?  I'm not sure because unlike these other "neighborhood" cities Philadelphia's core is more compact and walkable meaning the neighborhoods weave into one another and blend compared to a New York or Chicago. Then the neighborhoods that are truly unique and different like all the ones in Northwest, Southwest, and Northeast Philadelphia don't receive any love or attention.

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I view Philadelphia's neighborhood organization as a series of rings. There's an inner, Center City core, around which several neighborhood rings eminate with the neighborhoods getting more distinct, the more you are removed from this center core. After Center City there's South Philadelphia and a stretch north of the Vine Street Expressway that bookend Center City from South and North, respectively. From here the city splits out into a Southwest, West, Northwest, North and Northeast neighborhoods which feel separate and distinct from this central corridor and from each other. The nuances of each neighborhood are detailed in the links below.

CENTER CITY

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CITY HALL
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OLD CITY AND SOCIETY HILL
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PENN'S LANDING
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WASHINGTON SQUARE
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RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
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THE PARKWAY
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CHINATOWN

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA

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SOUTH STREET AND QUEENS VILLAGE
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EAST PASSYUNK AND THE ITALIAN MARKET
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GRADUATE HOSPITAL
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SOUTH PHILADELPHIA

THE STRETCH NORTH OF THE VINE STREET EXPRESSWAY

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FISHTOWN
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NORTHERN LIBERTIES
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CALLOWHILL
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FAIRMOUNT
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BREWERYTOWN

WEST PHILADELPHIA

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UNIVERSITY CITY
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SPRUCE HILL
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WEST PHILADELPHIA

NORTHWEST PHILADELPHIA

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MANAYUNK
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ROXBOROUGH
EAST FALLS
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FAIRMOUNT AND WISSAHICKON PARK
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​CHESTNUT HILL
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MT. AIRY AND GERMANTOWN

NORTH PHILADELPHIA AND THE NORTHEAST

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NORTH PHILADELPHIA
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