Outlaw Neighborhood Map To Finally Settle Innumerable Arguments
We only mention it because we know there’s someone you’re still on the hook for an Xmas gift — isn’t Russian Orthodox Christmas tomorrow? — but over the holidays, our friends at Outlaw Print Co. released a bunch of new gear. This Philadelphia Neighborhood Map print, 16 inches wide by 35 inches long and in a series of only 60, caught our eye. We can’t see up close, but it seems like they’ve finally drawn some kind of line — mostly just straight horizontal ones, which is pretty funny — around what neighborhoods end where, presumably shutting up legions of PhillyBlog commenters in the process. Holy shit, it really is still Christmas!
January 5th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
I want to know what neighborhood “lower graduate hospital” actually is
January 5th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
My guess is my hood, the northern tip of Point Breeze. Less-than-scrupulous realtors have been calling it that for a while.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Over the past few years some real estate jokers have been trying to pass off parts of Germantown as ‘Upper East Falls’. I’m glad to say that one never caught on.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
This is the definitive neighborhood definer in my book.
http://cml.upenn.edu/nbase/default.asp
Choose Maps > Set geography to NIS Neighborhoods > Click Next > Choose any Map Parameter. > Click Next > Zoom into the area in question, select the Identify Area icon on the left and click the area on the map.
A pop-up will display the official name of the neighborhood. Real Estate agents and PhillySkyline be damned.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
“I want to know what neighborhood “lower graduate hospital” actually is”
You mean So-G-Ho?
January 5th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Lo-G-Ho is so much more original, though. Just like Webe-So-Ca.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
“Lower Penn Medicine at Rittenhouse?”
January 5th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Please don’t tell the Fishtowners they live in Kensington!
Please don’t tell the anarchists they live in University City!
And what ever happened to Ju-No-Gi?
January 5th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
It’s No-No. Or OK.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Thank God I live in Kensington. So much classier than Fishtown. That’s right, you Philestines, officially living in Kensington: awesome.