Overbrook Park, Philadelphia
Overbrook Park is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Overbrook Park is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in the 1940s on the site of a former farm known as Supio's farm, offering new housing for returning GIs and their families. Overbrook Park is a largely middle-class African-American and historically Jewish neighborhood.
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Worth seeing in and around Overbrook Park, Philadelphia
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.
- 01Saint Joseph's University
Saint Joseph's University is a private Jesuit university in Philadelphia and Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States.
3 km · private, coeducational Roman Catholic Jesuit university in Philadelphia and Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia - 02African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas
The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas was founded in 1792 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the first black Episcopal Church in the United States.
1.7 km · church in United States · Wikipedia - 03Pont Reading
Pont Reading is a historic, American home that is located in the Ardmore section of Haverford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was the residence of shipbuilder and architect, Joshua Humphreys who lived there his entire life.
3.9 km · building in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 04Mosque of Shaikh M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
The Mosque of Shaikh M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the grounds of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship. The building of the mosque took 6 months and was done by the members of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship under the direction of M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen.
2.5 km · mosque in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US · Wikipedia - 05Mann Center for the Performing Arts
The Highmark Mann is a nonprofit performing arts center located in the Centennial District of Philadelphia's West Fairmount Park, built in 1976 as the summer home for the Philadelphia Orchestra. It is the successor in this role to the Robin Hood Dell outdoor amphitheater, where the Philadelphia Orchestra had given summer performances since 1930.
3.7 km · park in Pennsylvania, United States of America · Wikipedia - 06Arlington Cemetery
Arlington Cemetery is a cemetery in the Drexel Hill neighborhood of Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania.
3.4 km · cemetery in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 07City of Conquerors, Philadelphia
City of Conquerors was a church started by We Are More Than Conquerors Deliverance Ministries. Prior to its demolition, the building was formerly the West Philadelphia Jewish Community Center, as evidenced by the Jewish symbols on the exterior of the building at 11 South 63rd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2.3 km · church in Philadelphia, PA · Wikipedia - 08Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast High School
Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast High School, commonly known as Bonner–Prendie, is a coeducational Catholic secondary school of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, located in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania. The school was originally two schools on one campus, with Monsignor Bonner High School, an all-boys' school founded in 1956, and Archbishop Prendergast High School, an all-girls' school founded in 1953.
3 km · private, all-male school in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 09City Line Avenue Bridge
City Line Avenue Bridge is a historic concrete barrel arch bridge spanning the East Branch of Indian Creek and located in the Overbrook Farms neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1913, and is a single-span bridge.
1 km · bridge in United States of America · Wikipedia - 10George L. Brooks School
The George L. Brooks School is a historic former school building in the Haddington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
2.8 km · school building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
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Getting to Overbrook Park, Philadelphia
- Airports
- Philadelphia (PHL), 12 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 122 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 146 km
- Stations
- 69th Street Transportation Center, 1.6 km · Parkview, 1.2 km
- New York → Overbrook Park, Philadelphia130 km · quickest by road, 3h · $12–16
- Newark → Overbrook Park, Philadelphia123 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · $11–15
- Baltimore → Overbrook Park, Philadelphia151 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · $14–19
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- 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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Overbrook Park, Philadelphia is 9 km from Philadelphia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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