Olney
Olney is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia.
Olney is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia. It is roughly bounded by the Feltonville neighborhood to the south, Lawncrest to the east, East Oak Lane, to the north, and Logan to the West. Portions of the neighborhood do serve as major commercial centers for many surrounding groups. At 5th Street and Olney Avenue, there is a Korean-American business district, and Hispanic businesses are located in southern Olney.
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Worth seeing in and around Olney
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Free Library of Philadelphia
The Free Library of Philadelphia is the public library system that serves the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the 16th-largest public library system in the United States.
2.1 km · public library system in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia - 02La Salle University
La Salle University is a private Catholic university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The university was founded in 1863 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools and named for St.
2.8 km · private university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 03Gratz College
Gratz College is a private Jewish college in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, United States. The college traces its origins to 1856 when banker, philanthropist, and communal leader Hyman Gratz and the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia joined to establish a trust to create a Hebrew teachers college.
4 km · Private Jewish college in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, Unites States · Wikipedia - 04St. William Parish
St. William Parish is a Catholic church in the Lawncrest neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
2.5 km · church building in Pennsylvania, United States of America · Wikipedia - 05Belfield
Belfield, also known as the Charles Willson Peale House, was the home of Charles Willson Peale from 1810 to 1826, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. The Belfield Estate was a 104-acre area of land in the Logan section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, much of which is now a part of La Salle University’s campus.
3 km · American house · Wikipedia - 06Upsala
Upsala is a historic mansion in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Considered one of the finest extant examples of Federal architecture, the mansion is a contributing property of the Colonial Germantown Historic District and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places.
1.9 km · mansion in Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia - 07Rowland House
Rowland House, also known as the Shovel Shop, is a historic home located at Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1774, expanded about 1810–1820, with additions built in the early 1900s and 1920s / 1930s.
3.5 km · historic house in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 08Comly Rich House
The Comly Rich House is a historic house in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, notable as the first home in the United States financed by a savings and loan association, the Oxford Provident Building Society, founded 1831. To buy the house, which cost $500, Rich, variously described as a lamplighter or a maker of combs, received a loan of $375 in April 1831 from the Oxford Provident Building Association, founded the same year.
4 km · Historic house in Philadelphia · Wikipedia - 09Old Trinity Church
Old Trinity Church, also known as Trinity Church, Oxford, is a historic Episcopal church established in 1696 located in Oxford Township, Pennsylvania, which is now part of Philadelphia.
3.7 km · church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 10Alexander K. McClure School
Alexander K. McClure School is a historic elementary school located in the Hunting Park neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia.
2.6 km · school building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
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Getting to Olney
- Airports
- Philadelphia (PHL), 21 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 109 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 132 km
- Stations
- Arrott Transportation Center, 3.7 km · Hunting Park, 3.1 km · Fern Rock Transportation Center, 1.5 km · Olney Transportation Center, 2.1 km
- New York → Olney121 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · $12–16
- Newark → Olney112 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · $11–15
- Baltimore → Olney42 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · $4–6
- 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 Olney
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 Olney. 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.
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Next door to Olney
Olney is 10 km from Philadelphia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Cheltenhamunincorporated community in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania3.8 km
- Fern Rockneighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania1.9 km
- Feltonvillehuman settlement in Pennsylvania, United States of America2.6 km
- Ogontzhuman settlement in Pennsylvania, United States of America3.4 km
- Crescentvillehuman settlement in Pennsylvania, United States of America2.1 km
- James Russell Lowell Schoolhistoric elementary school in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia,1 km