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Me ilnquirer Sunday, july 23, 2017 1 philly.com i a REAL ESTATE EXPANDED COVERAGE INSIDE There's no official list, so what people call where they live can be an evolving situation Devil's Pocket Food and Spirits in the old Devil's Pocket neighborhood (right). Or is it Southwest Center City? Or Graduate HOSpital? JOY LEE Staff Home is where the art collection is HAVEN: This house in Overbrook Farms house doubles as a gallery for mid-19th-century portraits. And it comes alive with color. J7 South Philadelphia Taproom (below right). It was one of the first pieces of the revitalization effort in the area the developer now calls Newbold.

Naming your neighborhood Washington, and from Broad to the Schuylkill. Is it Graduate Hospital? South of South? Southwest Center City? It's been called G-Ho. So-So. And then, it has more neighborhoods within: Schuylkill Square, Naval Square, and Devil's Pocket. And that's just 0.4 square miles of a 141-square-mile city.

For decades, Philadelphia has carried the designation of "the city of neighborhoods," a moniker cemented over the years, even as other large cities carved out tiny neighborhoods of their own. Boardman says the nickname stuck for good reason: The now-retired historian has identified 685 Philadelphia neighborhoods dating to 1778. That's everything from Chestnut Hill to Frankford to Beg-See NEIGHBORHOODS on J4 By Caitlin McCabe STAFF WRITER Calls to Rich Boardman at the Free Library of Philadelphia's Maps Collection came from out-of-towners, genealogists, but mostly, rowdy bar patrons. "Often someone would call me and say, 'I'm having an argument with a friend! What's the boundary of this neighborhood or that said Boardman, who ran the Maps Collection for nearly 30 years. "They would be on the phone shouting, 'This is the 'No, this is When it comes to defining neighborhoods in Philadelphia, there are no easy answers.

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