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Manayunk (/ ˈ m æ n ə j ʌ ŋ k / MAN-ə-yunk) is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania.Located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Wissahickon and also on the banks of the Schuylkill River, Manayunk contains the first canal begun in the United States (although not the first completed, due to budget problems).
Philadelphia has 41 ZIP -codes, which are often used for neighborhood analysis. [1] Historically, many neighborhoods were defined by incorporated townships (Blockley, Roxborough), districts (Belmont, Kensington, Moyamensing, Richmond) or boroughs (Bridesburg, Frankford, Germantown, Manayunk) before being incorporated into the city with the Act ...
Population. 30,940. ZIP Code. 19128. Area code (s) 215, 267 and 445. Roxborough is a neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is bordered to the southwest, along the Schuylkill River, by the neighborhood of Manayunk, along the northeast by the Wissahickon Creek section of Fairmount Park, and to the southeast by ...
39°58′02″N 75°11′16″W. / 39.96722°N 75.18778°W / 39.96722; -75.18778 ( Canal End) The Schuylkill Canal, or Schuylkill Navigation, was a system of interconnected canals and slack-water pools along the Schuylkill River in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, built as a commercial waterway in the early 19th-century.
The Free Library of Philadelphia is a non-Mayoral agency of the City of Philadelphia governed by an independent Board of Trustees as per the Charter of the City of Philadelphia. [4] The Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit with its own board of directors and serves to support the mission of the Free ...
Manayunk. Manayunk can refer to: Manayunk, Philadelphia, a neighborhood in the U.S. city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. USS Ajax (1869), a former U.S. Navy vessel originally named USS Manayunk. USS Manayunk (AN-81), a former U.S. Navy net laying ship. Pretzel Park in Philadelphia, formerly known as Manayunk Park. Categories:
Belmont Hills library, part of the Lower Merion Library System. Until the Reading Railroad was built, Belmont Hills was known as Rocky Hill. It was then called West Manayunk. In the 1950s the name was changed to the current name. History. The Ashland Avenue School was built in 1919, starting with grades K-8; twenty years later, it became K-6.
The system is operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) and serves five counties in Pennsylvania— Bucks, Delaware, Montgomery, Chester, and Philadelphia —in addition to Mercer County, New Jersey and New Castle County, Delaware. [1] The system covers a total route length of 280 miles (450 km), with 13 service ...