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The area was once part of the plantation of James Logan, adviser to William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania. [1] Modern transportation formed the community: the Broad Street subway, which opened in 1928, and a thriving network of streetcar and bus routes, allowed development of what was then considered one of the earliest suburban communities in Philadelphia, though the area is considered urban ...
Readers asked Rep. Bizzarro where he stands on schools, voting, taxes, small business, housing, partisanship and more. Read his answers here.
Southwest Philadelphia (formerly Kingsessing Township) is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that can be described as extending from the western side of the Schuylkill River to the city line, with the northern border defined by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission as east from the city line along Baltimore Avenue moving south along ...
Logan Square is a neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Bounded by Market Street on the south, Spring Garden Street on the north, Broad Street on the east, and the Schuylkill River on the west, it occupies the northwestern quadrant of Center City .
Property tax 101. Property tax is divided into two parts: what goes to the state for the Education Fund – to pay for schools – and what is owed to the town to pay for municipal services like ...
The Logan Square Neighborhood Association and the Spring Garden Civic Association, which represent their respective neighborhoods, both consider Spring Garden Street to be the boundary between the two neighborhoods. Franklin Town is therefore in the area represented by the Logan Square Neighborhood Association. It has no separate civic association.
The James Logan Elementary School is an historic American elementary school building that is located in the Logan neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia , and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 as the Logan Demonstration School .
A mill is a $1 tax on every $1,000 of assessed property value. Carbondale Area: $29.9 budget, 134 mills, no tax increase. Dunmore: $25.8 million budget, 5.3% tax increase, to 144.49 mills.