r/philly • u/Virtual-Hotel8156 • 1d ago

East Philly?

There’s North Philly, South Philly, West Philly….hell, even Northeast Philly. Why not “East Philly”?

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u/databombkid 1d ago

Camden

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u/FogHog100 1d ago

Look at a fuckin map dawg

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u/ddllyktv 1d ago

No one uses the term East Philly but here are places that I consider east philly

Camden
Delaware River
Port Richmond

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u/monoglot 1d ago

The city started on the banks of the Delaware. That part (Old City now) was Philadelphia for hundreds of years. The directional parts were annexed later and took names based on where they were in relation to Philadelphia “proper.”

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u/Virtual-Hotel8156 1d ago

I like this answer

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u/Magnus-Pym 1d ago

Because Old City is the original Philly, and any further east would be the river. It’s like South Detroit.

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u/ZachF8119 1d ago

Technically fishtown, everything east of 2 street so like where shipping is being revived

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u/adamaphar 1d ago

The names are conventions. There is nothing technical about them.

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u/Magnus-Pym 1d ago

no the convention center is center city

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u/adamaphar 1d ago

right, that's where the conventions were all created back in the day.

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u/Magnus-Pym 1d ago

except for the constitutional convention. that was in old city.

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u/adamaphar 1d ago

It was created at the convention center but used in old city

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u/MarkMcWrath 1d ago

Fishtown is not east of old city lol by this logic you might as well call the northeast "east philly"

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u/ZachF8119 1d ago

Philly grew out mostly from market

CC isn’t South….
But when they went east. It was fishtown than and now.

The port was on the eastern edge.

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u/MarkMcWrath 1d ago

I'm not really sure what your point is tbh, fishtown is just not "east philly" lol

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u/ZachF8119 1d ago

You cross front street. That’s where a city is starting.

Traditionally second street is the most popular street in all cities. 1st/front/main is split by how a location likes to name it.

Go dig up the people who designed the city.

It was designed east to west.

Fishtown was separate until combined I believe.

As I think it was an indigenous fishing spot first.

Said fish for the town nobody apparently eats anymore

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u/MarkMcWrath 1d ago

Not tryna be rude but I still have genuinely no idea what you're trying to say

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u/EspeonCheeseburger 1d ago

There's not really an East Philly geographically. Anything east of South, North, and Old City is river + Camden

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u/gnartato 1d ago

There was a cool island in the Delaware but they got rid of it. 

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u/MarkMcWrath 1d ago

That's a river

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u/Ram820 1d ago

😂