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Get-To-Know-Philly Guide Dear Student, I’M Honored That You’Ve Chosen to Study Here with Me, the City of Brotherly Love Get-to-Know-Philly Guide DeAr Student, I’m honored thAt you’ve chosen to study here with me, the city of brotherly love. And while i wAnt you to hit the books hArd, i Also wAnt us to get to know one another. While most people know me as the birthplAce of AmericA, i’m Also bursting with unmAtched museums, public Art Aplenty, internAtionAl eAts, boundless trAils, festivAls gAlore and reAlly good beer. Use this guide put together by my buddies At the GreAter PhilAdelphiA Tourism MArketing corporAtion to explore. And if you need more informAtion, And uw ish u nu.com will hook you up. SMITH WALK P.S. I know you’re on A budget. Look for this symbol throughout the guide to find free wAys to spend WELCOMES YOU TO your downtime. PHILADELPHIA. $ 2 3 Fairmount CECIL B MOORE AVE GIRARD AVE POPLAR ST FAIRMOUNT AVE Art Museum/Fairmount Fishtown N Philadelphia SPRING GARDEN ST Museum of Art Northern Liberties BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PARKWAY 9TH ST 8TH ST 7TH ST 6TH ST 5TH ST 4TH ST 3RD ST 2ND ST 21ST ST 20TH ST 19TH ST 18TH ST 17TH ST 16TH ST 15TH ST 13TH ST 12TH ST 11TH ST 10TH ST W E 22ND ST N. BROAD ST CALLOWHILL ST I-76 Chinatown 676 I-676 VINE ST EXPRESSWAY Logan Franklin S Square Square RACE ST National Constitution Center Pennsylvania Convention Center Love Park 30th St Historic Philadelphia University City Station ARCH ST Comcast Center Reading Terminal Market Independence Visitor Center JOHN F. KENNEDY BLVD Delaware River City Hall MARKET ST MARKET ST Liberty Bell Center I-95 CHESTNUT ST CHESTNUT ST Independence Hall Old City Rittenhouse Square Midtown Village WALNUT ST WALNUT ST Rittenhouse Washington Square Square Penn’s Landing LOCUST ST 38th ST 37th ST 36th ST 35th ST 34th ST 33rd ST 32nd ST 31st ST 30th ST SPRUCE ST Penn Park I-76 AVENUE OF THE ARTS Schuylkill River SOUTH ST LOMBARD ST SOUTH ST South Street 9TH ST 9TH 8TH ST 7TH ST 6TH ST 5TH ST 4TH ST 3RD ST 2ND ST 21ST ST 21ST 20TH ST 20TH 18TH ST 17TH ST 16TH ST 15TH ST 13TH ST 11TH ST 10TH ST 19TH ST 19TH 12TH ST 23RD ST 22ND ST 22ND 76 ST FRONT S. BROAD ST CHRISTIAN ST 95 Italian Market WASHINGTON AVE Grays Ferry Ave South Philly CreatedFrom by the Greater Northern Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Liberties Corporation. to University City 4 E. PASSYUNK AVE 5 MOORE ST TABLE OF CONTENTS GETTING AROUND TOWN Getting Around Town .................. 7 THE LAY OF THE LAND MORE TRANSPORTATION City of Neighborhoods ...........8-9 Center City—how locals refer to the OPTIONS downtown area—is truly a walker’s Taxis are easily accessible throughout The Philly Basics........................10 delight. City founder William Penn had Center City and at all major the right idea when he planned the transportation centers—including Huzzah for History .....................11 city based on a grid system with neatly Philadelphia International Airport and organized squares and parallel streets. 30th Street Station. Simply wait in the Culture Club........................... 12-15 Center City stretches a walkable 25 taxi line, hail a cab on the street or call blocks from the Delaware River on the the cab company of your choice for door- Sports & Recreation............. 16-19 LIBERTY BELL CENTER east to the Schuylkill River on the west. to-door service. Supreme Shopping ............. 20-21 “Tree” streets (like Chestnut, Walnut and Locust) run east to west, and numbered Zipcar and PhillyCarShare are the way Culinary Delights .................22-25 streets run north to south. Fourteenth to go for those who prefer to be in the Street is actually called Broad Street or driver’s seat—literally. These car-sharing Nighttime Revelry................26-29 the Avenue of the Arts. organizations allow members to borrow Annual Events ...................... 30-31 cars at dozens of locations throughout AS SIMPLE AS SEPTA the city for an affordable price. Transportation via bus, train, subway or zipcar.com, phillycarshare.org trolley on Philadelphia’s transit system, SEPTA, is easy. The Market-Frankford Line, an elevated train that locals call “the El,” runs east to west. The Broad Street Line, the city’s subway system, BOATHOUSE ROW crosses the city north to south. SEPTA’s Independence Pass is a great option for TWITTER TIP those with a busy touring agenda. It’s @philly311: There is free Center City good for one day of unlimited travel on metered parking on Weds after 5 p.m. the bus, subway, trolley and regional from river to river and Bainbridge to rail. Weekly and monthly passes are Callowhill Streets. also available at a discounted rate. If you decide to pay your fare in cash onboard the bus or before boarding the subway or El, you’ll need exact change. Tokens and passes may be purchased at stations, from more than 400 retail sales locations around the region and online at shop.SEPTA.org. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STATUE INDEPENDENCE HALL 6 Communications. ce of Offi Pennsylvania of The University of courtesy also GPTMC; for Widman Smith and G. J. Savaria, E. K. Rankin, B. Krist, R. Kennedy, M. Kennedy, C. Gabello, by Photos Need more direction? Head to visitphilly.com/getting-around. 7 CITY OF NEIGHBORHOODS If you haven’t heard, Philadelphia is a city of neighborhoods— • Art Museum/Fairmount AM: During the wonderfully diverse, delightfully delicious and blissfully buzzing day, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway welcomes museum dwellers at the neighborhoods. Here’s a look at some of the most popular Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Franklin communities in Center City and just beyond. Reader note: Look for Institute, The Academy of Natural neighborhood abbreviations throughout this guide to help you plan Sciences and, beginning in May 2012, your days and nights in whatever ’hood fi ts your mood at the moment. the Barnes Foundation, home to one of the greatest collections of Impressionist, • Fishtown FT: Once the center of • Midtown Village MV: Boutique Post-Impressionist and early Modern the shad fishing industry, this shopping, buzzed-about restaurants paintings in the world. At night, gentrifying neighborhood is being and sophisticated nightlife keep Fairmount Avenue—just a few blocks reborn thanks to an influx of hipster- this enclave bustling day into night. north—is alive with restaurant-goers. approved restaurants, gastropubs Located within Philly’s Gayborhood— and beer gardens. as locals commonly refer to it—the • University City UC: Starting at the west neighborhood is decked out with bank of the Schuylkill River, University • Northern Liberties NL: These rainbow street signs that show off its City is home to the University of warehouse-y blocks north of Old gay-friendly nature. Pennsylvania, Drexel University and City specialize in art-filled cafes and scrumptiously diverse restaurants and revived beer halls that cater to the • Rittenhouse Square RS: Grand food trucks. FRIENDSHIP GATE, CHINATOWN indie rocker-meets-loft-dwelling crowd. brownstones and modern penthouses are the hallmarks of Philadelphia’s • South Street SS: The morphing • Old City OC: Old City is a historic ritziest neighborhood, which streetscape that runs from Headhouse neighborhood by day and a dining emanates from its namesake city- Square to 10th Street attracts diverse and drinking destination by night. block park to stretch south via quietly crowds for its indie shops, top-notch In between, it’s the place to shop for tony residential streets and north via restaurants and not-to-be-missed statement-making ensembles, bold bustling business corridors. people-watching. jewelry and art of all sorts. • South Philadelphia SP: The country’s • Chinatown CT: The Friendship Gate at oldest Italian-American business 10th and Arch Streets welcomes visitors district, South Philly is now becoming to the cultural and culinary delights known for its cool bars and stylishly that await inside this always-active old-world bistros. enclave that’s home to more than 100 restaurants and stores from every Chinese province. TWITTER TIP @linseywisor: The Dandelion for lunch. Rittenhouse Square makes me feel fancy. RITTENHOUSE SQUARE SANSOM STREET, UNIVERSITY CITY 8 Want more scoop on the city’s diverse neighborhoods? Go to visitphilly.com. 9 THE PHILLY BASICS HUZZAH FOR HISTORY If you’ve never been to Philadelphia before or never explored the city Okay, so you’ve hit the city’s most well-known historic sites, and now beyond your campus, it’s time for Philly 101. Here’s a list of must- you’re ready to go a little deeper. That’s no problem in the city where sees, must-dos, must-tastes for Philly newbies: the nation was founded. • Philadelphia is the birthplace of • Trying Philly’s signature foods is a • Renew your appreciation of the • It’s imposing. It’s unnerving. It’s freedom. Pick up timed tickets for must while in town. It’s fun to sample U.S. Constitution at the National Eastern State Penitentiary, a Independence Hall—and many other cheesesteaks from Pat’s King of Constitution Center, filled with crumbling and haunting National Philly attractions—at the Independence Steaks and Geno’s Steaks, competing high-tech exhibitions, artifacts and Historic Landmark known for Visitor Center. Then, head a block vendors in South Philly at 9th Street displays, along with a multimedia introducing solitary confinement as a south to tour the building where the and Passyunk Avenue. Tony Luke’s in introduction to the influential four- means of housing criminals and for its Declaration of Independence was South Philly and Jim’s Steaks on South page document that’s guaranteed to most famous inmate, Al Capone. adopted and the U.S. Constitution was Street are other popular options.
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