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Minutes away from Center City's business district and ideal for the active individual. Enjoy jogging, biking and skating along scenic Kelly Drive. Watch regattas of scullers on the Schuylkill River. Play softball and enjoy visiting beautiful Federal mansions in Fairmount Park. Walk to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Not only does the Museum have one of America's greatest collections of art, it's grounds serve the neighborhood as a backyard, a playground, a meeting place, an entertainment center, a reading room and a quiet spot where you can just plain relax and enjoy views of the skyline and river. Life is quite enjoyable off the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Spring Garden and Logan Square, with easy access to some of the finest museums and cultural institutions in the world. This neighborhood is great for children, with easy access to the Please Touch Museum; the Franklin Institute with its planetarium and Omniverse Theater, and the dinosaur exhibits at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Located just North of Olde City this warehouse and row house district has been cultivated by musicians and artists. Once the land of breweries, now an eclectic version of Philly's SoHo. Warehouse buildings lend themselves to development as great artist live/work space, music and art studios and nightclubs. The neighborhood enjoys good brews, food and jazz, as well as diner fare and clever theme evenings at local establishments. Life is quite enjoyable off the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Spring Garden and Logan Square, with easy access to some of the finest museums and cultural institutions in the world. This neighborhood is great for children, with easy access to the Please Touch Museum; the Franklin Institute with its planetarium and Omniverse Theater, and the dinosaur exhibits at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Philadelphia's Chinatown is the fourth largest in the United States. Chinatown is currently expanding north of the Vine Street Expressway with a new housing development. Shop at the dozens of gift shops and Asian markets. Discover exquisite fans; lacquer chopsticks, jade jewelry, Chinese slippers and screens, tealeaves and more in Chinatown's specialty shops. And enjoy easy access to the many events at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Dine at a variety of Asian restaurants, offering Chinese, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Burmese or Thai cuisine. Or stroll over to the Reading Terminal Market where you can shop for take-home gourmet ranging from Amish farm produce and meats, to cilantro pesto, to kosher hors d'oeuvres and Cajun spices. Live the artist's life in Olde City, where commercial buildings from the turn of the century have become exciting, light filled loft apartments or condos with panoramic views of the Delaware River and Benjamin Franklin Bridge. Enjoy walking through this diversified neighborhood of commerce and industry and its many historic structures, which include Penn's Landing, Old Christ Church, Betsy Ross House and Elfreth's Alley, the oldest residential street in the country. Shop at the highest concentration of galleries in the region along Second Street. Celebrate First Friday (first Friday of every month) the night the galleries boast a grand open house. Olde City has recently become the hottest spot for chic new restaurants and coffee shops. Easy access to local high ways and at the East End of Center City and just north of Society Hill make this a convenient location. Live the fashionable life in the most stylish of Center City neighborhoods, with its Manhattan-esque stately Victorian brownstone apartment buildings and blocks of gracious 19th century townhouses. Rittenhouse Square (the park is located between 18th & 19th and Walnut & Locust), designed by William Penn in 1682, is one of the most treasured of the five city parks. Surrounding the park are mainly high-rise apartment buildings with some of the most prestigious in the city. They range in style from 1920's opulence to 1990's contemporary. Just west of Rittenhouse Square is a charming area called Fitler Square which takes its name from the park between 23rd & 24th along Pine Street. The neighborhood abuts Center City's business district and has the finest in shopping. Shop Rittenhouse Row for its concentration of haute couture boutiques, furriers, salons and galleries. Or try The Shops at Liberty Place, an upscale urban mall with a breathtaking rotunda. Dine at internationally renowned restaurants and then stroll to the Avenue of the Arts for a performance by the Opera Company of Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Ballet or plays at the Merriam and Wilma theaters. As the name implies, this area is west of Washington Square, also neighboring Society Hill. Its location is extremely central, within walking distance of Center City's business district. "Wash West" is a neighborhood where coffeehouses host poetry readings, and you have shops, cafes and nightspots at your fingertips. Live on cozy cobblestone streets like Camac and Hutchinson or in condos in the grand houses of Strickland Row on Spruce Street. Shop at the eclectic stores on Pine Street's Antique Row, where you can find anything from 18th century to 1960's vintage. Be dazzled by the choices along Jeweler's Row, the country's oldest jewelry district on So. 8th Street. Dine at fine local restaurants, then catch a show at the Forrest Theater or historic Walnut Street Theater. Unwind with after-theater coffee and dessert at one of the many local coffee shops. One of the premier neighborhoods in the country, where beautifully renovated Colonial homes exists in harmony with luxury high-rise buildings. Make your address a street or cobblestone alley where Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin strolled. This area contains more 18th & 19th century rehabbed homes than anywhere. Shop at unique stores, at specialty shops along Second Street, South Street, and Center City or crafts fairs under the historic market shed at the old Headhouse. Enjoy legendary Philadelphia on a horse and buggy ride through this Colonial area to some of the city's finest restaurants, theaters, museums or Penn's Landing. At Penn's Landing you can jog, ice skate, or ride bikes, or attend its wonderful musical, and entertainment events, including fireworks at New Year's and the Fourth of July. Also known as Graduate Hospital Area, or "SoSo" for "South of South" just to the south of Rittenhouse Square is predominately occupied by the Graduate Hospital and its students and medical health professionals. Residents enjoy easy access to jobs in Center City, in University City and at Graduate Hospital on South Street. Live the old neighborhood life in Bella Vista, which is just west of Queen Village and just south of Wash West. Walking distance to Center City's business district as well as shopping. Its heartbeat is the Italian Market along 9th Street, between Catharine Street and Washington Avenue. The market is a true European open air market, where you can find fresh mozzarella, fresh fish, rare cuts of meat, homemade pasta, produce, exotic spices, flowers, bread right out of the oven and, of course, several of the best Italian restaurants. It is a must for the serious gourmet or the very hungry. The neighborhood consists of some of the old timers and many of the younger "urban gentry". Get to know neighbors that have lives there all their lives. The architecture ranges from the classic brick row homes to the warehouses converted to ultra modern lofts. Named for the Queen of Sweden by early Swedish settlers, situated just to the south of Society Hill is an eclectic and vibrant neighborhood with a strong Neighborhood Association. Architecturally you will find the very colonial, the very contemporary and most periods in between. Queen Village's heartbeat is South Street, which many compare to New York's Greenwich Village. Shop here like you can't shop anywhere else in town, at the funky to chic stores and galleries that line South Street. Catch a quick bite or a live band in this long-standing Center City nightlife district, which is enjoying more stores, better restaurants and hipper musical and performing arts venues than ever before. Or shop at the antique stores and second-hand stores on Sixth Street. Then peruse for curtains, upholstery and even dollhouse furniture along "Fabric Row" on South Fourth Street. |
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