Fishtown
Fishtown is a neighborhood in the River Wards section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Fishtown is a neighborhood in the River Wards section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Located northeast of Center City Philadelphia, its borders are somewhat disputed today due to many factors, but are roughly defined by the triangle created by the Delaware River, Front Street, and York Street. Some newer residents expand the area to Lehigh Avenue to the northeast, while some older ones shrink the area to Norris Street. It is served by the Market–Frankford Line rapid transit subway/elevated line of the SEPTA system, and the historic Route 15 Girard Avenue trolley line. Fishtown has long been a largely working class Irish Catholic and Irish American neighborhood, though in recent years it has seen a large influx of young urban professionals and gentrification.
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Getting to Fishtown
- Airports
- Philadelphia (PHL), 14 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 115 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 137 km
- New York → Fishtown127 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · $12–16
- Newark → Fishtown118 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · $11–15
- Baltimore → Fishtown147 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · $13–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Fishtown
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Fishtown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAir charter companies such as Monarch Air Group and Mercury Jets fly a variety of private charter aircraft and jets, from charter luxury Gulfstream's down to economical piston twins for small groups and individuals.
- Get inThe RiverLink and Freedom Ferry services provide travel from Philadelphia to neighboring Camden, New Jersey, between April and September.
- Get inAccess to the other waterfront attractions, including an aquarium, is also provided by the ferry service.
- Get aroundThose rates are as follows: Lindenwold, Ashland & Woodcrest Stations and Philadelphia: $3.00 Haddonfield, Westmont & Collingswood Stations and Philadelphia: $2.60 Ferry Avenue (Camden) Station and Philadelphia: $2.25 Travel within Pennsylvania, between Broadway and City Hall (Camden), and between PA and those two stations: $1.40 Any other trip within New Jersey: $1.60 Note that PATCO is not operated by SEPTA and uses its own fare system.
From Wikivoyage: Philadelphia, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Fishtown
Fishtown is 3 km from Philadelphia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.