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Restaurateur Stephen Starr, foreground, with business partners in 2004. Starr Restaurants, stylized as STARR Restaurants, is a restaurant group headed by founder and CEO Stephen Starr, with restaurants in Philadelphia, New York City, Washington D.C., South Florida, and Paris, France.
Philadelphia English or Delaware Valley English is a variety or dialect of American English native to Philadelphia and extending into Philadelphia's metropolitan area throughout the Delaware Valley, including southeastern Pennsylvania, all of South Jersey, counties of northern Delaware (especially New Castle and Kent), and the northern Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Philadelphia International Airport ( IATA: PHL, ICAO: KPHL, FAA LID: PHL) is the primary airport serving Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It served 12.4 million passengers annually in 2022, making it the busiest airport in Pennsylvania and the 21st-busiest airport in the United States. The airport is located 7 miles (11 km) from the ...
Population. (2010) • Total. 15,675. Area code (s) 215, 267 and 445. Tacony ( Delaware: tèkhane) [1] is a historic neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, United States, approximately 8 miles (13 km) from downtown ("Center City") Philadelphia. It is bounded by the east side of Frankford Avenue on the northwest, the south side of Cottman ...
Arrested. 774. The Philadelphia race riot, or Columbia Avenue Riot, took place in the predominantly black neighborhoods of North Philadelphia from August 28 to August 30, 1964. Tensions between black residents of the city and police had been escalating for several months over several well-publicized allegations of police brutality.
Roosevelt Boulevard (Philadelphia) Roosevelt Boulevard, officially named the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Boulevard and often referred to, chiefly by local Philadelphians, simply as "the Boulevard," [2] is a major traffic artery through North and Northeast Philadelphia. The road begins at Interstate 76 ( Schuylkill Expressway) in Fairmount Park ...
Philadelphia Koreatown. Coordinates: 40°02′02″N 75°07′16″W. Koreatown. Neighborhood of Philadelphia. Professional offices along Cheltenham Avenue in Cheltenham, one of several areas in the Delaware Valley encompassing Greater Philadelphia that has a significant Korean population. In the background is the northern terminus of Broad Street.
A 1752 map of Philadelphia. The city of Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn in the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Before then, the area was inhabited by the Lenape people. Philadelphia quickly grew into an important colonial city and during the American Revolution was the site of ...