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The Philadelphia Badlands is a section of North Philadelphia and Lower Northeast Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is known for an abundance of open-air recreational drug markets and drug-related violence. [1] It has amorphous and somewhat disputed boundaries, but is generally agreed to include the 25th police district. [2]
Within Kensington, various sub-neighborhoods including Harrowgate, Lower Kensington, West Kensington.Central Kensington, or "the Heart of Kensington" as it is called in a recent Impact Services neighborhood plan, [8] stretches along Kensington Avenue from Tusculum and Somerset Streets to Tioga Street (see Impact Services plan [8] for a more accurate map).
The K&A Gang, or the Northeast Philly Irish Mob, is a predominantly Irish American criminal network based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The K&A Gang was started following World War II and controlled the city's Irish-American criminal underworld for much of the late 20th century.
Philadelphia Election Riot (1742) Lombard Street Riot (1842) – Three-day race riot. Philadelphia Nativist Riots (1844) The Schuylkill Rangers – (mid-1800s) criminal gang – see Jimmy Haggerty; Kidnapping of Charley Ross (1874). Race riots in Philadelphia during the 1919 Red Summer (1919) - Incidents in May and July. 5 dead.
Today, the area most often referred to as Philadelphia's modern-day skid row is in the Kensington neighborhood, along Kensington Avenue near the intersections of Somerset Street and Allegheny Avenue. The area is known for its high rates of open-air recreational drug use, poverty, and homelessness. [ 46 ]
Lower North Philadelphia is a section of Philadelphia that is immediately north of Center City and below Upper North Philadelphia and can be described as a section of Philadelphia that was designated as a "Model City" target, in hopes of overcoming poverty and blight through a federal funding program since 1966. Bounded by Spring Garden Street ...
The River Wards is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States located along the Delaware River to the northeast of Center City Philadelphia. 'River Wards' is the commonly used name for an area including several neighborhoods, such as Fishtown, Kensington, Port Richmond and Olde Richmond.
Kensington was named for the monarch's residence in England, Kensington Palace. The early street names of Kensington also bore this out as they mimicked the titles of the crown; King Street (now Beach), Queen Street (now Richmond), Prince Street (now Girard Avenue) and Duke Street (now Thompson), etc. Due to his political longevity, Palmer ...