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.
The awards highlight success stories from the city's public schools. The sixth annual EDDY awards went to a student leadership group, a fundraising effort, and a program that teaches law to middle and high school students.
Share + Nov 19, 2009 10:15 pm US/Eastern CHESTER, Pa. Two suspects in a stray-bullet killing near Philadelphia are in custody a ' but one of them managed to get control of a Delaware County detective's car and drive several miles before being caught again.
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A state lawmaker is questioning why a casino industry association in Pennsylvania that is headed by a former state Supreme Court chief justice is not registered as a lobbying group, despite its apparent attempts to influence debate on gambling legislation.
A Philadelphia man has been ordered to stand trial in a botched home invasion robbery in eastern Pennsylvania that left a Florida man dead more than two years ago.
A police detective alleges that former Washington Police Chief Charles Ramsey, despite past denials, ordered mass arrests of hundreds of demonstrators who were protesting annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in 2002.
November 18, 2009 -- The Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit released a sketch of a man suspected in a series of rapes in the Kensington section of the city.
A bankruptcy auction of the company that publishes The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News has been postponed while creditors appeal a key ruling.
Standing tall within the clouds, the view of the smokestack atop the old Pennsylvania Railroad steam plant near Amtrak's 30th Street station ended Sunday morning with a thunderous boom.
A U.S. Airways airliner en route from Philadelphia to London made an unscheduled stop in Boston Monday after the pilot deemed a passenger's behavior unruly and decided to have him removed from the plane.
Share + Nov 17, 2009 6:50 am US/Eastern Philadelphia police are investigating a home invasion that led to the shooting death of a Kingsessing woman Tuesday morning.
Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard told a panel of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday that the parole rate began to plummet last year after the first of two highly publicized shootings of police officers in Philadelphia.
