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69-705: The city government views this sprawling chunk of Philadelphia more precisely as three smaller districts, drawn up by the Redevelopment Authority in 1964. These regions are (from north to south) Olney-Oak Lane , Upper North Philadelphia and Lower North Philadelphia . Other sections of North Philadelphia include Brewerytown , Fairhill , Fairmount , Francisville , Franklinville , Glenwood , Hartranft , Koreatown , Northern Liberties , Poplar (roughly bound by Girard Avenue, Broad Street, Spring Garden Street and 5th Street), Sharswood , Strawberry Mansion , and Yorktown . Prior to its incorporation into

138-603: A Baptist temple, it has now become a prime part of the Avenue of the Arts. Where Broad Street intersects with Clearfield Street in North Philadelphia is the exact location of the 40th Parallel . One of the busiest streets in the country, Broad Street is shut down for the annual 10-mile (16 km) Broad Street Run . Passing by some of Philadelphia's most famous landmarks, the course averages over 35,000 participants

207-559: A $ 8.7 million project to brighten North Broad with 41 stainless steel light masts. In early 2025, the Philadelphia Parking Authority will install speed cameras along Broad Street. Southern Boulevard Parkway is a landscaped segment of South Broad Street in Philadelphia , connecting Marconi Plaza and FDR Park from Oregon Avenue at Broad Street southward five intersections to the gateway entrance of

276-418: A black woman named Odessa Bradford got into an argument with two police officers, one black, Robert Wells, and the other white, John Hoff, after her car stalled at 23rd Street and Columbia Avenue. After Bradford refused to comply with the two officers' orders to move the car, because the car had stalled, and she was unable to drive it, an argument ensued. The officers then tried to physically remove Bradford from

345-512: A brief moment in history, peaking in the late 1920s. Upper-class foremen and executives lived farther north along Broad Street , in what is now the West Diamond Street Townhouse Historic District. Thriving commercial districts sprung up along the great northern avenues: Columbia (renamed Cecil B. Moore Avenue), Susquehanna, Dauphin, Erie, Lehigh and Olney, to name a few. However, just as this wealth

414-609: A bustling boulevard to a cultural magnet for music and the arts. On January 1, 1901, the very first Mummers Day parade was held, becoming a staple of Philadelphia culture. As jazz and gospel music grew in popularity in Philadelphia with the Great Migration of the early 1900s, numerous jazz and blues clubs opened in the city, including the Uptown Theater , which was built on North Broad Street in 1927. By

483-545: A championship parade was for the Philadelphia Flyers in 1974 . Since the 1980s, residents and visitors have often parked illegally in the striped median strip of Broad Street, which is paved in the same way as the road surface and is not raised, particularly in South Philadelphia , with the city and parking authority rarely enforcing the law against doing so except during major events such as

552-562: A circle around City Hall at this point. It is one of the earliest planned streets in the United States, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a continuous north–south street, planned by surveyor Thomas Holme and developed for Philadelphia in 1681. Broad Street is served by many public transit routes, including SEPTA 's Broad Street Line subway and several SEPTA city bus routes . As of 2023,

621-630: A number of the nouveau riche : ambitious first or second generation immigrants or those that had made their fortunes starting manufacturing firms. Many were German Jews who had settled in the area, later founding companies and building synagogues. For a time, an age of opulence and grand architecture returned to North Philadelphia, centered on what is now zoned as the Historic North Broad Street Mansion and Speculative Housing Districts. Gentlemen's clubs, upscale restaurants and shopping districts grew in this southern tier for

690-468: A small yet growing population of Hispanics living west of Germantown Avenue, and already significant population of Blacks living east of that street. The area between Broad Street and 5th Street is increasingly becoming a "transition zone" between the larger predominantly black area west of Broad, and the smaller predominantly Hispanic area east of 5th. This section of Philadelphia has nearly equal populations of Hispanics and Blacks, although Germantown Avenue

759-480: A thriving urban residential community, countryside recreation and the focal location point for regional metropolitan spectator sporting events. The Boulevard was utilized as the main entrance and central roadway in the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition , a world's fair hosted in Philadelphia, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence , and

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828-481: A time, Lower North Philadelphia became a great center of black culture and music, most notably jazz . Many commercial corridors were maintained for decades, and a great many musicians came to North Philadelphia, like John Coltrane and Stan Getz . By 1964, North Philadelphia was the city's center of African American culture, home to 400,000 of the city's 600,000 black residents. As the century marched past middle age, many other problems symptomatic of all US cities of

897-714: A year. Broad Street from Oregon Avenue at Marconi Plaza to City Hall , in South Philadelphia and Center City , is the location of the Mummers Parade , which has been held annually every New Year's Day since 1901. Broad Street often serves as the main parade route for Philadelphia sports championship parades, most recently for the Eagles Super Bowl LII victory. During the Phillies 2008 World Series victory parade, an estimated two million people lined Broad Street. The largest gathering for

966-636: 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 . It is Pennsylvania Route 611 along its entire length with the exception of its northernmost part between Old York Road and Pennsylvania Route 309 (Cheltenham Avenue) and

1035-476: Is divided into several "clusters," which administer individual schools. By region, these clusters are: Lower North Philadelphia Upper North Philadelphia Olney/Oak Lane YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School, which is chartered by the School District of Philadelphia , is also located in North Philadelphia, just south of William Penn High School. The Mastery Charter Schools system operates

1104-487: Is headquartered in the neighborhood. Several parts of North Philadelphia, especially those that border the Center City district, have recently been experiencing varying levels of gentrification . Once economically divested neighborhoods like Brewerytown , Francisville , Northern Liberties , Poplar and West Kensington have seen large scale development break ground. Other regions have seen virtually no change, save

1173-414: Is highly racially and socially segregated block by block. A noticeable pattern in the area is that, in the southern part of North Philadelphia (south of about Erie Avenue), Germantown Avenue (which later becomes North 6th Street) is the dividing point between the areas that are predominantly Black (to the west), and the areas that are predominantly Hispanic (to the east). However, this is slowly changing, with

1242-476: Is immediately north of North Philadelphia and south of Cheltenham . It is an area that consists of the now defunct township that was called " Bristol Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania ". The section is often excluded as part of North Philadelphia by city government agencies, though locally it is often referred to as "Uptown," along with the Germantown – Chestnut Hill area. The section includes

1311-550: Is made up of African Americans and Puerto Ricans . The eastern half of North Philadelphia has one of the highest concentrations of Puerto Ricans in the country, this section of North Philadelphia is over 75% Puerto Rican, and over half of Philadelphia's Puerto Rican population resides in this section of the city. North Philadelphia also has a high concentration of Black Muslims . The area also has significant Irish and other White Americans , Dominican , Haitian , Cuban , Korean and Polish populations, among others. About half of

1380-856: Is merely referred to as part of Broad Street. Broad Street is home to several Philadelphia cultural landmarks. Broad Street between Spruce and Market Streets is known as the Avenue of the Arts , and includes the Academy of Music , and the Kimmel Center . Two blocks north of City Hall is the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts , and further north is the New Freedom Theatre . The South Philadelphia Sports Complex , near Broad's south end along Southern Boulevard Parkway ,

1449-514: Is still seen as a divider street, with areas between Germantown Avenue and Broad Street "more black" and areas between Germantown Avenue and 5th street "more Hispanic". East of Front street, blocks start to get more diverse, with significant populations of Hispanics, blacks and whites. Also, as the Hispanic community continues to grow eastward, the ethnic white enclaves of eastern North Philadelphia continue to shrink. See [1] North Philadelphia

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1518-650: Is the site of Citizens Bank Park , Lincoln Financial Field , and the Wells Fargo Center . Demolished sports facilities located in this area were John F. Kennedy Stadium , the Spectrum , and Veterans Stadium . As a result, the Philadelphia Flyers are nicknamed the "Broad Street Bullies". South of the sports complex and interchanges with the Schuylkill Expressway (Interstate 76) and Interstate 95 , Broad Street has its southern terminus in

1587-402: Is usually described as an area north of Center City, between Front Street and Fairmount Park. Sub-sections include: Today, many remnants of these more prosperous eras remain. However, many historic buildings have collapsed, either from neglect or demolition, and thousands more still lie abandoned. A handful have become protected historic properties, and 67 properties and districts were added to

1656-489: The BSL subway line garnered a reputation for violent crime and rape. The great art deco office buildings and government institutions were mostly abandoned, as were the mansions of the many ruined industrialists. As in many poorer African American city ghettos, drug addiction became a major blight in North Philadelphia, further destabilizing families and social networks. North Philadelphia, like many other sections of Philadelphia,

1725-600: The Delaware River waterfront, where today's Philadelphia Naval Shipyard stands. It remains Philadelphia's longest straightaway and one of the longest urban boulevards in the United States. During the early 19th century, Broad Street was home to many wealthy residents, especially around the Rittenhouse Square area. Homes were designed in Victorian and Gothic styles. South Broad became center for

1794-475: The National Register of Historic Places . Several blocks, with numerous old mansions, have been re-zoned as the aforementioned historic districts. A great many extravagant churches were built over the years, as well. Some still stand, but all too often money is scarce to preserve their deteriorating architecture. The trolley lines that once criss-crossed the northern streets and linked the region with

1863-501: The Philadelphia Free Library located in North Philadelphia. Uptown Theater is an iconic part of the music scene of North Philadelphia. It was a springboard for many notable artist of our time. 40°00′24″N 75°08′34″W  /  40.006762°N 75.142863°W  / 40.006762; -75.142863 Olney-Oak Lane, Philadelphia Olney-Oak Lane, Philadelphia , is a section of Philadelphia that

1932-493: The South Philadelphia Sports Complex and Xfinity Live! , and the Philadelphia Navy Yard . In 1904, a plan for park and parkway improvements in South Philadelphia was designed by Samuel Parsons Jr., but work stopped by 1910. In 1912, the city's director of public works, Morris Cooke, engaged Olmsted Brothers , an architecture firm, to produce designs for League Island Park , Oregon Plaza and

2001-413: The " North Philly Badlands " is notorious nationwide for it. Many North Philadelphia neighborhoods are blighted, and abound in abandoned homes and vacant lots. Pep Boys is headquartered in North Philadelphia. Certain sections of North Philadelphia were highly commercial. TOPPS Cards were once produced in North Philadelphia until moving to New York. Temple University is the seventh largest employer in

2070-478: The 1950s, Broad Street residential areas had been replaced with skyscrapers as well as the newly developed Penn Center . Since the 1970s, the street has undergone various city renovations. Using $ 100 million in public funds, Broad received new lighting and streetscaping, theater restorations and new restaurants and cafes. Lamp post fixtures have been improved as well as sidewalk pavements and subway entrances. In 2015, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter introduced

2139-522: The 50th anniversary of the 1876 Centennial Exposition. Open green areas, parking, and huge exposition buildings flanked the Boulevard lined with linden trees and flowering crab apple trees , individual obelisks as the 13 columns for each of the original Thirteen Colonies known as the "Founders Pylons", various standards, banners , and a huge 80 foot high 27 ton replica of the Liberty Bell at

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2208-520: The American manufacturing sector led to the closing of many of the factories that many northern neighborhoods were centered on and depended on. Increased urban blight and the general decline of Philadelphia in the late 20th century even saw the decline of many of the strong black communities in North Philadelphia. The legendary Connie Mack Stadium was closed in favor of the new Pattison Sports Complex . North Philadelphia Station lost Amtrak Service, and

2277-535: The BSL these major railways made the region a thriving hub of transportation. For a time, North Philadelphia station became the second most heavily trafficked rail station in the city, and the Olney Ave station the most used subway stop. Along with many of Philadelphia's major manufacturing concerns came the nearby estates of the wealthy industrialists who had founded them. Lower North Philadelphia in particular housed

2346-1230: The Broad Street Run. Public transportation along Broad Street includes SEPTA 's Broad Street Line subway, which served an average of about 137,000 riders per weekday in 2010, running beneath Broad Street for most of its length. The subway starts at the Fern Rock Transportation Center in the Fern Rock neighborhood in North Philadelphia and begins to follow Broad Street at the Olney Transportation Center , extending south through Center City to NRG station at Pattison Avenue in South Philadelphia . Several SEPTA City Bus routes run along Broad Street, with Routes 4 and 16 following Broad Street for most of their routes. The Route 4 bus follows Broad Street from Pattison Avenue in South Philadelphia north to Rising Sun Avenue in North Philadelphia, where it diverges to

2415-500: The City of Philadelphia, Temple University Hospital, Inc is number 11 (PA Dept of Labor and Industry, 1st Quarter 2019). Notably, Broad Street roughly bisects North Philadelphia north-south. Broad Street is a six-lane arterial street that is designated as Pennsylvania Route 611 . The Broad Street Line or 'Orange Line,' runs along Broad Street, directly connecting North Philadelphia with Center City and South Philadelphia, as well as with

2484-770: The Clymer School in North Philadelphia. The system opened the Mastery Charter Lenfest Campus (7–12) in September 2001 in an office building in North Philadelphia. The school moved to Old City in Center City in 2002. North Philadelphia has the largest concentration of Charter Schools in Philadelphia North Philadelphia hosts a number of institutions of higher learning. There are thirteen branch libraries of

2553-483: The Philadelphia Navy Yard. The parkway consists of the central median landscaped area including the bordering east and west tree lined sidewalks and various sized green spaces which separates opposing lanes of traffic, and roadway intersections. Broad Street is a historic city street and this landscaped segment is bordered by an urban residential townhome community and the entrance to the major venues of

2622-569: The biggest steam locomotive producers before the transition to diesel powered trains. Broad Street's biggest addition came with the construction of City Hall intersecting Broad and Market. With the progression of the Industrial Revolution , Philadelphia became a center for trade and commerce. Transportation growth gained prominence with the construction of the Broad Street Station in 1881. Social life dominated

2691-497: The burgeoning worker population. This expansion was also the impetus for breaking ground on the Broad Street Line subway, designed specifically to carry a passenger from the northern hub of Olney to Philadelphia City Hall in under 20 minutes. Major freight and passenger rail lines were built to intersect at the newly constructed North Broad Street Station and transmit cargo from the bustling factories. The completion of

2760-491: The car. She resisted and a large crowd assembled in the area. A man tried to come to Bradford's aid by attacking the police officers at the scene, but he and Bradford were arrested. Rumors then spread throughout North Philadelphia that a pregnant black woman had been beaten to death by white police officers. Later that evening, and throughout the next two days, angry mobs looted and burned mostly white-owned businesses in North Philadelphia, mainly along Columbia Avenue. Outnumbered,

2829-411: The city and the country had to offer. The intended result was to create a Suburban Village by blending the countryside with the urban environments and developing an organization of open space, views and providing the advantages of increased health benefits of purity of air and facilities for quiet out-of-door recreation. This original concept design facilitated surrounding development in the next century of

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2898-486: The city proper, North Philadelphia was little more than a collection of primarily agricultural townships above the original City of Philadelphia. In the 18th century, as Philadelphia grew in importance and, consequently, population, then pastoral North Philadelphia became an attractive alternative to the burgeoning city. The mansions of wealthy Philadelphians began to dot the landscape, and by the late 18th and early 19th century, several small town centers had developed to anchor

2967-592: The close of the exposition, but the area continued to draw development in the 1960s with a new stadium, bowling alley, drive in movie theater, movie theater, and the Aquarama Aquarium Theater of the Sea . The development pattern continued with the connstruction of two venues for Philadelphia's four primary professional athletic teams, the 76ers , Eagles , Flyers , Phillies . Veterans Stadium , an outdoor stadium that opened in 1971 and closed in 2003,

3036-424: The end of North as a suburb of Philadelphia. North Philadelphia's decentralized towns were gradually meshed into a sprawling network of the ubiquitous Philadelphia rowhouses . Many of the newly created neighborhoods retained the name of their ancestral towns and townships, for example, Northern Liberties was formerly Northern Liberties Township. Philadelphia was one of the most important centers of manufacturing in

3105-418: The entire length of Broad Street is part of Philadelphia's High Injury Network , the small fraction of city streets on which the majority of traffic deaths and serious injuries occur. Broad Street has gone through various changes since its beginnings in colonial-era America . Thomas Holme introduced the first geographical plan of the city to William Penn in 1687. Proposing a center square, Holme designed

3174-468: The fine arts with the establishment of the Academy of Music in 1857. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Adelphi Theater were also built during the same time period. Banks and offices grew in number around center city as well as high rise structures. The corner of Spring Garden housed Baldwin Locomotive Works founded by Matthias Baldwin in 1825. Baldwin's company was one of

3243-516: The former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard . Joe Frazier's Gym , the personal training gym and home where former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier lived and trained in preparation for his fight against Mohammed Ali and George Foreman , is located at the corner of Broad St. and W. Glenwood Ave champion boxer; it has since been turned into a furniture store. The former offices for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News newspapers are on Broad Street just north of City Hall and

3312-404: The former PA State Building is at the intersection with Spring Garden Street. The Public School District Administration relocated between these two landmarks. Also located on North Broad at its intersection with Fairmount Avenue is the historic Divine Lorraine Hotel . Farther north, Broad passes through the campus of Temple University and its performing arts center, which opened in 1891. Once

3381-531: The gateway of Oregon Plaza. The Boulevard was illuminated at night with spectacular visual displays of the Liberty Bell surrounded with 26,000 light bulbs, the Founder Pylons each with a powerful searchlight projecting skyward, and the shooting projection of lights from the Tower Of Light. This provided a fantastic effect for that time period. The structures were demolished or removed following

3450-473: The growing population. However, this suburban landscape was to be interrupted around the middle of the 19th century, as rapid urban expansion led to The Consolidation Act of 1854 . This state law annexed all of the townships within Philadelphia County to the City of Philadelphia. With new territory now under the aegis of Philadelphia's city planners, a rising influx of European immigrants led to

3519-450: The late 1940s as these residents became more affluent and Northeast Philadelphia began to develop new housing with lawns and conveniences such as modern plumbing. In most cases African Americans moved into the vacant houses and as this began to increase, true white flight began. Increasingly, people moved out of North Philadelphia not solely to move into newer homes, but to avoid facing decreasing property values and increased criminality. For

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3588-442: The mid to late 20th century, if not in a more pronounced fashion. While residential corridors like Hope Street and Delhi Street had long housed primarily African-American residents, white residents moved out of the city as waves of poorer black residents moved in. During the 40s and 50s, much of the area was racially integrated , although smaller streets were usually completely black or white. Whites began to move out slowly at first in

3657-550: The neighborhoods of East Oak Lane and West Oak Lane , Feltonville , Fern Rock , Koreatown , Logan , Ogontz , Cedarbrook and Olney . As of 2010 , the Olney-Oak Lane section of Philadelphia had a population of 168,770, with 76,576 males, 92,195 females and a median age of 33. Racial demographics: 40°02′51″N 75°06′02″W  /  40.04759°N 75.10065°W  / 40.04759; -75.10065 Broad Street (Philadelphia) Broad Street

3726-457: The police response was to withdraw from the area rather than aggressively confront the rioters. The race riots of 1964 became iconic for the rising ethnic tensions in the region, and the continued withdrawal of white residents. The riot, which virtually destroyed the central shopping district of North Philadelphia, signaled the beginning of the end for the North's commercial sector. The withering of

3795-477: The population lives below the poverty line. Most of Philadelphia's crime pertains to the drug trade. In a 2007 Philadelphia Weekly article journalist Steve Volk states that anti-drug activists said that North Philadelphia has a lot of open air recreational drug dealing because the act is a tradition and because many areas have consistent poverty. Though several blighted Philadelphia neighborhoods are known for open-air drug dealing, as well as open-air drug using,

3864-419: The rest of Philadelphia were shut down by SEPTA in 1992. Immense, abandoned factories sit idle; warehouses lie empty; and disused heavy rail lines scar the landscape. The names of the old industrialists, such as Gratz, Poth, Uber, Bouvier and Schmidt, still adorn many buildings and street signs in the area but are otherwise foreign to many modern-day residents. The Neighborhood Transformation Initiative or NTI,

3933-475: The rest of Philadelphia's public transit system: SEPTA . As of 2017, Taiwanese airline China Airlines provides a private bus service to and from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City for customers based in the Philadelphia area. This service stops in North Philadelphia. Public and Charter schooling in North Philadelphia is handled by the School District of Philadelphia . The region

4002-528: The rising housing values that have accompanied increased attention in urban markets. Many residents of communities in North Philadelphia have voiced resistance towards these gentrifying forces, viewing the sudden investment as an invasion that threatens the traditional character of the neighborhoods. According to the 2010 census , 340,350 people live among the ZIP codes of 19132, 19133, 19121, 19122, 19130 and 19123. ( Map ) Most of North Philadelphia's population

4071-447: The southernmost part south of Interstate 95 . Broad Street runs along a north–south axis between 13th Street and 15th Street, containing what would otherwise be known as 14th Street in the Philadelphia grid plan . It is interrupted by Philadelphia City Hall , which stands where Broad and Market Street would intersect in the center of the city. The streets of Penn Square, Juniper Street, John F. Kennedy Boulevard , and 15th Street form

4140-699: The street during the second half of the 19th century. Elaborate hotels such as the Divine Lorraine and the Majestic were centers for nightlife . Standing over 10 stories tall the Lorraine was one of the tallest residential structures in Philadelphia. Private clubs such as the Columbia and Mercantile were popular during the Gilded Age . At the turn of the 20th century, Broad Street transformed from

4209-509: The street to be roughly 100 feet (30 m) across and 13 miles (21 km) long. Penn intended that the center square would eventually be home to Philadelphia City Hall . During the American Revolutionary War , Broad Street was often settled by Continental Army troops moving in and out of the city. As the city's population grew, Broad Street was extended both north to Vine and south to Dickinson, eventually reaching

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4278-428: The stretch of south Broad Street from Oregon Avenue south to Pattison Avenue and southward to League Island . The unifying medial green space including the tree lined sidewalks on the east and west connected the two parks developed from river swamp lands that were filled and regraded. In 1926, a second Parkway was constructed on Moyamensing Avenue from Oregon Avenue to the intersection of Packer Avenue, and Packer Avenue

4347-429: The time came about. Many of the neighborhoods in North Philadelphia sprung up around one monolithic factory, which was the center of the community's income. Each factory that closed down devastated its host neighborhood. In this way, the wave of national industrial collapse caused the rapid break up of numerous "factory neighborhoods" in the predominantly working class North Philadelphia. On the evening of August 28, 1964,

4416-599: The world between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries, and North Philadelphia is one of the sections of the city whose landscape was most deeply shaped by the industrial era. Its landscape still strongly reflects this heritage. As the industrial age peaked in America, North Philadelphia became a working man's town. Upper North Philadelphia , Olney , Brewerytown , became major hubs of production. Large factories and industrial complexes were erected, covering vast swaths of city land. Thousands of row homes were constructed to house

4485-462: Was a City program launched by Mayor John F. Street . The program called for the demolition of thousands of condemned buildings and the construction of large-scale, medium-density public housing, with restoration efforts to be employed on salvageable houses. Many blocks of old rowhouses have been bulldozed and replaced with suburban-style tract houses . This program has radically changed some sections of North Philadelphia. Some charge that little effort

4554-487: Was extended from 20th Street to Broad Street (Southern Boulevard) for access to the Sesquicentennial Exposition . The two parks were later renamed Marconi Plaza and FDR Park , and the median landscaping was named Southern Boulevard. Olmsted's design was centered on the availability of open space to all residents. Olmsted wanted to create a place that took advantage of the best characteristics that

4623-461: Was made to save a number of historic buildings, others that NTI was needed to change blighted neighborhoods. The lasting effects of the program remain to be seen. Some areas, like Olney, Allegheny and Erie, still have relatively active communities, but even they are often troubled by drugs, crime and/or social underfunding. Allegheny West has advanced, mostly from the support of some of the last industries in North Philadelphia, such as Pep Boys , which

4692-401: Was so suddenly gained, it would just as suddenly be lost. The new money culture proved to be an unstable foundation for a lasting community, and like so many constructs of the Gilded Age , this core of wealth was doomed to rot. Over the next few decades The Great Depression , outsourcing and white flight took their toll on North Philadelphia in a fashion similar to other major US cities of

4761-588: Was the home field of the Eagles and Phillies. The Spectrum , an indoor arena that opened in 1967 and closed in 2009, was the home stadium of the 76ers and Flyers. Although the thoroughfare carried the name of Broad Street the green space was officially designated in the 1950s Philadelphia Home Rule City Charter as part of the Fairmount Park urban park system as parkland, to be known as Southern Parkway . No traces of this name exist in this area today and it

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