City Center includes Philadelphia's central business district and neighborhood district, in the US state of Pennsylvania. It comprises the area that formed the City of Philadelphia before the Consolidation Act, 1854 which extended the city limits to the borders of Philadelphia County. Greater Center City has grown to become the second most populous city center in the United States, after Midtown Manhattan in New York City, with an estimated 183,240 inhabitants by 2015.
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Boundary
The City Center is bordered by South Street to the south, Delaware River to the east, Schuylkill River to the west, and Vine Street to the north. This meant that the City Center occupied the boundaries of the city before it was created adjacent to Philadelphia County in 1854. The District Town Center, which has special taxing powers, uses intricate, irregularly shaped boundaries that encompass many but not all of these areas, and also surpasses that. The Philadelphia Police Department patrols in three districts located in the City Center. The three patrol districts serving the City Center are the 6th, 9th, and 17th districts.
Environmental features
Among the neighborhoods and districts of Center City are Penn's Landing, Old Town, Hill Society, South Street, Washington Square West, Eastern Market, Chinatown, Logan Square, Museum District (located along Benjamin Franklin Parkway), Rittenhouse Square, Fitler Square, Avenue of the Arts (South Broad Street), and Jewelers' Row.
The City Center is home to most of Philadelphia's tallest buildings, including the Philadelphia City Hall, the second tallest stone building in the world and until 1987 the tallest in Philadelphia, and the tallest building in the world for seven years. In March 1987, One Liberty Place broke the approval of the men not to exceed the height of William Penn's statue above the City Hall. Since the completion of One Liberty Place, no major league sports team in Philadelphia has won the world championship over the next two decades, a phenomenon known as the "Billy Penn Curse." In an effort to reverse the curse, a 3-foot-tall Penn statue has been affixed at the top of the Comcast Center after it was completed as the new tallest building in the city in 2007. On October 29, 2008, Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series 2008, effectively ending the "curse"
The other seven skyscrapers now exceed the height of the Penn statue, including One Liberty Place's sister, Two Liberty Place. Comcast Center, completed in 2007, is now the tallest building in Pennsylvania, 30 feet taller than One Liberty Place. Two buildings are now under construction - 1441 Chestnuts and Comcast Technology Center - also scheduled higher than City Hall. The latter will be the eighth tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest outside Manhattan and Chicago. The first publicly accessible point of view higher than City Hall opens on One Liberty Observation Deck on the 57th floor of One Liberty Place in 2015.
Other City Center skyscrapers include BNY Mellon Center and Three Logan Square, which houses the traffic cameras used by the Philadelphia branch of Westwood One MetroNetworks traffic service.
Across the street from City Hall is the Masonic Temple, the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania headquarters, the heritage of the Founding Fathers and signatories to the Declaration of Independence, many of whom are Freemasons; such figures include George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
While the Philadelphia population declined, Center City rose 10% between 1990 and 2000.
In 2007, the city defined an area bounded by Road 11, Width Road, Chestnut Road and Pine Road as Gayborhood.
Nearby Areas
- Chinatown
- Fitler Square
- French Quarter
- Logan Square
- Eastern Market
- Old Town
- Rittenhouse Square
- Bukit Masyarakat
- Washington Square West
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Economy
Sunoco has its headquarters at BNY Mellon Center. Cigna has its corporate headquarters at Two Liberty Place. Aramark is headquartered in the City Center. Comcast is headquartered in Comcast Center. Cozen O'Connor's law firm is headquartered in the City Center. Kogan Page has a United States office in the City Center.
Lincoln National Corporation moved its headquarters from Indiana to Philadelphia in 1999. In Philadelphia Lincoln headquartered in West Tower of Center Square at Center City. In 2007 the company moved 400 employees, including its top executives, to Radnor Township from Philadelphia.
Government and infrastructure
Infrastructure
The Philadelphia Fire Department operates 5 Fire Stations in the City Center area:
- Ladder 5, Medic 35, Battalion 1 - 711 S. Broad St.
- Snorkel 2, Medic 44B, Battalion 4, Field Comm. Unit 1 - 101 N. 4th St.
- Machine 11, Medic 21 - 601 South St
- Pipeline 20, Ladder 23, Medic 1 - 133 N. 10th St.
- Squirt 43, Ladder 9, Medic 7 - 2108 St. Markets.
The Federal Prisons Bureau of Northeast Regional Offices is located at the US Customs Building, part of the Independence National Historical Park, in Kota Tua, Kota Tengah.
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Kantor/Konsulat Diplomat
The Italian Consulate General in Philadelphia is located at 1026 Public Ledger Building at 150 South Independence Mall West. The Consulate General of Panama in Philadelphia is located in Suite 1 at 124 Chestnut Street. The Israeli Consulate General in Philadelphia is located on the 18th Floor in 1880 John F. Kennedy Boulevard. The Mexican Consulate in Philadelphia is located in Suite 310 at the Bourse Building off of Independence Mall.
The Consulate General of the Dominican Republic in Philadelphia is located in Suite 216 at the Lafayette Building at 437 Chestnut Street. It closed on November 7, 2005.
Education
Public schools
Philadelphia School District
The population is in Philadelphia School District.
From the 1940s to the opening of what is now known as the Greenfield School in 1954, many residents attend public schools in other areas and private schools because of the low number of public schools in the City Center.
In 2005, to prevent the escape of middle-class families, the school district and the Central City District, an economic development agency, started a program promoting public schools in the City Center (including Rittenhouse Square and Society Hill) and adjacent areas in Fairmount, Northern Liberties, and South Philadelphia.
K-8 schools that have attendance limits in the City Center and the area around the City Center include:
- Albert M. Greenfield
- Opened in September 1954 as a School City Center after the Central City Residents Association (CCRA) advocated its establishment. Originally stationed at the YWCA and later in the former Jerrold Electronic Building. In 1964 the school district bought the site for a permanent campus, which started construction in 1966 and opened in September 1970.
- General George A. McCall at Society Hill
- Chester A. Arthur
- Bache-Martin
- William H. Harrison
- Andrew Jackson
- General Philip Kearny
- James R. Ludlow
- William M. Meredith
- George W. Nebinger
- Spring Garden
- Edwin M. Stanton
- Laura Wheeler Waring
The neighborhood high school for the City Center and City Center area, located outside the City Center, includes:
- Furness High School
- Benjamin Franklin High School
- South Philadelphia High School
Other secondary schools include:
- Bodine High School for International Affairs
- High School Constitution for American Studies
- Franklin Learning Center High School
- Parkway Center City High School
- Philadelphia High School for Business and Technology
- Academy of Leadership Science
Combined secondary and high schools include:
- School of Julia R. Masterman
Charter school
Charter schools not operated by the School District of Philadelphia include:
- Value 1-12:
- School of Mathematics, Civic, and Science Charter
- Class 7-12:
- The School System Mastering the Charter operates the Lenfest Charter Mastery Campus (7-12) in the Old City. It moved from North Philadelphia to the Old City in 2002.
- Value 5-8:
- Freire Charter Secondary School
- Grades 6-12:
- World Communications Charter School
- Class 9-12:
- Architecture and Charter of School Design
- Freire Charter High School
- College Student Mastery
- Philadelphia Electrical School and Technology Charter
- Value of K-8:
- Laboratory of Charter School of Communication and Language
- School of Charity Art of People's Cultural Arts
- Class 6-8:
- Wakisha Charter School
- Value of K-7:
- Christopher Columbus Charter School
- Value of K-8 Independence Charter School
- The People for People Charter School
- Pre-K-6 Value:
- Charter Russell Byers School
- Value of K-6:
- Universal Institute Charter School
Private school
Parochial Roman Catholic School
The Roman Catholic archdiocese in Philadelphia operates the following Catholic parish school in the City Center area:
- Values ​​9-12:
- J. W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School
- Roman Catholic High School
- Pre-K-8 value:
- St. Francis Xavier School
- St. Peter the Apostle School
- K-8 value:
- St. Mary Interparochial School
- Class 1-8:
- Holy Redeemer School
Other private schools
Other private schools in the City Center area include:
- Pre-K-12 values:
- Friends Select School
- Class 9-12:
- City Center Academy
- Pre-K-8 value:
- St. Peter School
- Philadelphia School
Public library
The Free Library of Philadelphia operates the Parkway Central Library at 1901 Vine Street, Branch of Independence at 18 South 7th Street, Philadelphia City Institute on the first floor and lower level of the apartment complex at 1905 Locust Street, and Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled at 919 Walnut Street.
Other institutions
The American State and School Association associations are headquartered in the City Center.
Transportation
Main highway
- Interstate 76
- Interstate 95
- Interstate 676
- US. Route 30
- PA Route 3
- PA Route 611
- US. Route 1/Roosevelt Blvd
Local public transit
- City Relations Communication Center
- SEPTA
- Jefferson Station (Regional Train)
- Suburban Station (Regional Train)
- Market-Frankford Line (Road 2, Road 5, 8th Street, 11th Street, 13th Street Station, and 15th Street)
- Broad Street Line (Spring Garden, Race-Vine, City Hall, Walnut-Locust, and Lombard-South stations on the main line; Chinatown and 8th Street station on Broad-Ridge Spur)
- Subway line trolley (13th Street, 15th Street, 19th Street and 22nd Street stations; all stations on Market Street)
- Bus routes
- PATCO Speedline (8th & Market, 9-10th & Locust, 12-13th & Locust, and 15-16th & Locust Street stations)
- New Jersey Transit (various bus & stop routes)
There is a 500,000 square foot pedestrian concourse that connects many Septa city center stations with business and office buildings. Mainly runs under Market Street and Broad Street, this concourse reaches from east to west from 8th street to 18th street and north to south from John F. Kennedy Boulevard to Spruce Street.
Intercity public transport
- Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal (Greyhound, Peter Pan and Trailways buses)
- Megabus (Station 30th Street)
- Chinatown bus lanes (various operators & stops; some stop near 11th & Arch Streets)
Philadelphia's main Amtrak Station, 30th Street Station, is located just west of the City Center, just across the Schuylkill River. The Regional SEPTA Regional Railway, Atlantic City Atlantic Train New Jersey, Frankford-Market Train, and the subway line trolley also serve 30th Street Station, and Megabus and BoltBus stops on the road adjacent to the station.
In 2016 Taiwan Airlines China Airlines provides private bus services to and from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to customers based in the Philadelphia area. This service previously stopped at the City Center in front of the Marriott Hotel.
Central City Residents Association
The Central City Residents Association, originally formed in 1947 to prevent Rittenhouse Square from turning into a parking lot, is a major supporter of quality of life issues in the City Center. Other community organizations of this type include the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, the Society Society of Civil Society, the Southern Southern Neighborhood Association, the West Washington Square Citizen Association, and the Neighboring Neighbor Association.
Gallery
See also
- Curtis Publishing Company
- Independence National Historical Park
- List of Historic Historic Places of Historic Places in Town Center, Philadelphia
References
External links
- Philadelphia City Center and Development Center
- How 700 Street Market blocks evolved
- Central City Residents Association
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