Roxborough

Roxborough is a neighborhood in the Northwest Philadelphia section of the United States city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Roxborough, known by residents as "The Boro," is located between the Schuylkill River and the Wissahickon Creek. It is bordered to the southwest, along the Schuylkill River, by the neighborhood of Manayunk. Roxborough's northeast border is Fairmount Park and the Wissahickon Creek, to the southeast is the neighborhood of East Falls, and to the northwest is Northwestern Avenue and Montgomery County. Roxborough's zip code is 19128.

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Neighborhood - Northwest Philadelphia - United States - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - Schuylkill River - Wissahickon Creek - Manayunk - Fairmount Park - Montgomery County

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Roxborough is a predominantly white, middle class neighborhood of Philadelphia. Lower Roxborough and the Wissahickon section of the neighborhood, near East Falls, are working class. However, this economic picture is changing as gentrification occurs in Roxborough, Manayunk, and East Falls.

Related Topics:
Gentrification - East Falls

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The commercial spine of the neighborhood is Ridge Avenue, which as its name suggests, runs along the ridge between the Wissahickon Creek and the Schuylkill River. Most businesses are located on the Ridge, and most residents are within walking distance to it. Henry Avenue runs parallel to Ridge Avenue up to Andorra. It was built in the 1930s and includes several concrete arch bridges, including one over the Wissahickon Creek where it crosses into East Falls. This bridge includes a pair of box tunnels under the roadway. The bridge was designed was to carry a planned extension of the subway into Roxborough, but the subway was never extended anywhere near the bridge.

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Because of the Wissahickon Creek and the park which protects much of its watershed, Roxborough and Manayunk are physically separated from the rest of the city. Most of its development occurred after 1950, giving most of Roxborough a suburban character.

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Most of Philadelphia's television and FM radio stations have their transmission towers in Roxborough because of its hilly terrain.

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