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Originally Posted by Docere
An interesting thing about Philadelphia is that is a pretty contiguous "Little Italy" area, stretching from the Italian Market deeper into South Philadelphia. The Market itself isn't Italian as it used to be - but they didn't go very far.
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I'm actually trying to find it on Streetview. Could you give us rough boundaries, because those blocks just east of Broad don't appear to be very Italian, at least judging by the people and businesses. I'm trying to find salumerias, bakeries, social clubs, and other obvious Italian markers.
South Philly, East of Broad, south of the Italian Market, appears to be very racially mixed in the western parts, and looks fairly "tough", but then gets much whiter (and seemingly nicer) closer to the river, it seems. The whiter parts are more Irish, I think. This is just based on Streetview exploration, haven't looked at Census.
Will be in Philly, for work, in a couple of days, and actually want to do some South Philly exploring.