Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The population density was 1,383.9 inhabitants per square mile (534.3/km 2). There were 811 housing units at an average density of 579.1 per square mile (223.6/km 2 ). The racial makeup of the town was 84.47% White , 3.87% African American , 0.41% Native American , 6.97% Asian , 3.41% from other races , and 0.88% from two or more races.
Oak Creek started its Drexel Town Square flag project in response to a young resident who wanted to see more red, white and blue in town.
Drexel has a large urban campus, so the risks of crime are assertively addressed. Drexel aims to maintain a secure campus for students, staff, and local neighbors. [5] Drexel's solution to the issue of crime is a three—layers of defense: Drexel Police, Philadelphia Police, and Drexel Public Safety (staffed by Allied Barton).
By comparison, in a square grid map, the distance from the center of each square cell to the center of the four diagonal adjacent cells it shares a corner with is √ 2 times that of the distance to the center of the four adjacent cells it shares an edge with. This equidistant property of all adjacent hexes is desirable for games in which the ...
Rail bridge over Chestnut St., painted with Drexel's logo. University City has a history of strained town and gown relations, [16] particularly with the University of Pennsylvania ("Penn" for short), the city's largest private employer and the second-largest private employer in Pennsylvania. During the 1960s, Penn led a series of gentrification ...
The facility is best known for its 2,509-seat multi-purpose arena that is home to multiple Drexel University Dragons sports teams including basketball and wrestling.While the entire recreation center, including the multi-purpose arena, gym, natatorium, rock climbing wall, and squash canter are located in the athletic center, the "DAC" generally refers solely to the multi-purpose arena.
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, formerly the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, is the oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas. It was founded in 1812, by many of the leading naturalists of the young American republic with an expressed mission of "the encouragement and cultivation ...
Drexel Hill is located in the western part of Upper Darby Township at (39.949962, -75.301841 The neighborhood is eight miles from Center City, Philadelphia and is bordered to the north by Haverford Township, to the east by the Kirklyn, Highland Park, Beverly Hills, and Bywood neighborhoods in Upper Darby Township, to the southeast by the borough of Lansdowne, to the south by the borough of ...