The downtown hub of metropolitan Philadelphia, Center City is the business, financial, and economic epicenter of the region. It is also a thriving residential area and the prime location in Philadelphia for entertainment, shopping, dining, and cultural activities.
Manayunk
Manayunk is a National Historic District located west of Center City. The neighborhood has over 70 restaurants, cafes, galleries, and unique boutiques.
Old City
The Old City neighborhood is located in the heart of Philadelphia's most historic district: where Benjamin Franklin once lived and worked, and the Declaration of Independence and our country's Constitution were written. Old City has more than 50 galleries, shops, theaters, restaurants, and museums and is an easy 10 minute walk from the downtown hotels.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the first capital of the United States and the town where our nation first began. In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was written and signed in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania State House, as was the United States Constitution in 1787. Today the ""City of Brotherly Love"" is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the United States with people from many different cultures and backgrounds living and working together with a sense of community and civic pride.
Philadelphia Neighborhoods
The neighborhoods of Philadelphia are steeped in the history of our nation's birth -- from Old City's Liberty Bell in Independence Hall to the cobbled alley-ways and Philadelphia's oldest church, built in 1733, that are located in the Society Hill neighborhood.
Society Hill
Society Hill is mostly a residential neighborhood with fashionable homes, brick sidewalks and tree-lined streets. Society Hill has the largest number of 18th century homes in the United States.
South Philly
South Philly is a tight-knit multicultural community with immigrants from Italy and many other countries. It is a great place to find wonderful ethnic foods; especially authentic Philadelphia cheese steak sandwiches.
South Street
South Street is a happening place any time of day or night. An eclectic mix of nearly 300 retail businesses line the streets of South Street, from fine restaurants, art galleries, and bookstores, to tattoo and body-piercing parlors and fortune tellers.
You are sitting in silence as a black-and-white freeze-frame of phantom dancers appears on a scrim across the front of the stage, the opening shot of a film by artist Sol LeWitt.
Share + Sep 5, 2010 4:40 pm US/Eastern WEST CHESTER, Pa. A man convicted of raping a fellow immigrant from Sierra Leone in suburban Philadelphia has now been charged with trying to hire another prison inmate to kill her.
IAn 18-year-old man was shot and killed early Sunday morning in the 4800 block of Tackawanna in the Wissinoming section of Northeast Philadelphia, police said.
Before martinis got all silly and the advent of oxymoronic sports bars, there was the Happy Rooster, a gem of a hideaway at the corner of 16th and Sansom, its bar warm Brazilian rosewood, its aspect buttoned-down and, in the '60s, perfectly scripted for a Mad Man.
A new report says the nation's capital has the worst drivers in the country, followed by Baltimore -- and Philadelphia is also near the bottom of the list.
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Authorities in suburban Philadelphia are seeking answers and a local prison is vowing changes following the mistaken release of a sixth inmate this year.
Philadelphia Police Department have not filed charges against a man they have taken into custody for his involvement in what appears to be a fatal hit-and-run accident.
A Clarion University student who has been suspended by the institution pleaded guilty Friday to criminal trespass, attempted criminal trespass and two counts of simple assault in connection with a shooting inside a Rural Valley apartment in March.
The Buttercream Cupcake Lady sells some of the most popular cupcakes in the city, not from a storefront but in a roving truck that makes scheduled stops at designated neighborhoods.
After her son was killed in 2008, Sherderian Sutton got a Philadelphia license to carry a concealed weapon and a small Ruger pistol to protect herself and her surviving children.
Share + Sep 3, 2010 1:20 pm US/Eastern Police have identified a suspect in connection to a violent rape at a Center City bus stop just steps from Philadelphia Police headquarters.
Here's why Philadelphia, and not Fort Collins, Colo., is the setting for not one, but two cable-television series that revolve around driving in the city: Accidents do happen here.
