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Page Contents:
-Links of Interest About Philly
-Getting Around
-Area Weather
-Area Culinary Schools
-Area Driving Tips
-Italian Market Links
Related Pages:
-9th St Italian Market
-Directions to Our Store
-How to Contact us
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Links to Philadelphia
Links of Interest About Philadelphia:
  GoPhila.com
- Greater Phila Tourism
- The official visitor site for the greater Philadelphia area; Things to
do, Places to stay, Special offers, Travel tools, Philly favorites
 Philadelphia
Convention &
Visitors Bureau - The official convention and visitor site for Philadelphia;
Meeting, group and visitor tools, Calendars, Life sciences
 Philadelphia
Inquirer &
Daily News - The area's largest daily circulation newspapers, with area
guides
 Philadelphia
Weekly - For local news and events, with area guides
 Philadelphia
City Paper
- For local news and events, with area guides
 Philadelphia Magazine
- Features and events
GreaterPhilly -
Business link directory
Philadelphia.com -
Travel, attractions, directories
 CitySearch
- Search Philadelphia
 Phila.gov -
Official site of the City of Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Neighborhoods and Place Names
 PhillyHistory -
Philadelphia City Archive
Search Restaurant Reviews:
hollyeats.com
southphillyreview.com
philadelphia.citysearch.com
philly.com
citypaper.net
phillyweekly.com
phillymag.com
Getting Around:
Here are some ways to make it easier to get here...
 Amtrak - Train schedules &
reservations
 Phila International Airport - PHL -
Flight info and more
Airline Fares
- One way to get here
Guide to Rental Cars
- A way to get around while here
 Greyhound - Bus
schedules & fares
 SEPTA - For
local train and bus service schedules
PhillyPhlash - Local downtown & tourist transportation
And more ways to learn how to get from there to here and back...
Mapquest - Yet another
wonderful map resource
Google Maps - Not
to mention Google
Google Earth -
Explore Philly and the world from your pc
For traffic, road construction information, and more...
Smartraveler
PhillyTraffic
Traffic Pulse for Philadelphia area
TMA of Chester County
Pennsylvania Turnpike
 KYW
NewsRadio, 1060-AM
- Tune your radio here for traffic reports every 10 minutes on the 2's
Looking for an ATM...
Visa - ATM locator
MasterCard - ATM locator
Area Weather:
Philadelphia weather from:
 AccuWeather
- accuweather.com
 The
Weather Channel - weather.com
National Weather Service - srh.noaa.gov
Area Culinary Schools:
How about area cooking schools for better preparation and enjoyment of food,
tours and more?
Start with...
Albertson's Cooking School
Art
Institute of Philadelphia, School of Culinary Arts
Bucks County Community
College
Community College of
Philadelphia
Drexel University
JNA Institute of
Culinary Arts
Philadelphia Opportunities
Industrialization Center
The Restaurant
School
Rutgers University
Also search Shaw Guides
and All Culinary Schools
Tips on Driving in Center City & South Philly:
The grid system of streets makes it pretty easy to navigate in
this area of town.
South Philly is generally considered to be the area between South
St. and the Naval Base, and between the Delaware and the Schuylkill Rivers.
Westward from Christopher Columbus Blvd. along the Delaware River,
the major northbound and southbound through street names are numbers, with
some exceptions. Beginning from Front St., then 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. Notable
exceptions include "Front St.," instead of 1st St., and "Broad St.," instead
of what would logically be named 14th St. Broad St. is one of the city's
major thoroughfares.
Homes and businesses on eastbound and westbound streets are
numbered in sequential groups of 100, starting at Front St. Therefore,
between Front and 2nd Sts., all addresses are between 100 and 199; between
12th and 13th Sts., all addresses are between 1200 and 1299.
Similarly, all homes and businesses on northbound and southbound
streets are numbered in sequential groups of 100, starting at Market St.
A good directional marker to look for is Billy Penn atop City Hall,
conspicuously located in a center square at Broad and Market Sts. Most tall
buildings in the city are located in this area, generally referred to as
Center City, north of South St. and bounded between the Delaware and
Schuylkill Rivers.
Market St. is the division between streets whose names are
followed by North or South designations. Our address, for example, is
designated as 1006 South 9th St. because we are South of
Market St.
There is no directional mapping logic in the names of eastbound
and westbound through streets. So get a map. Or check the list below,
compiled southbound from Market St., if it'll help:
Market St. (to the train station & Schuylkill Expwy (Rt. 76) westbound)
Chestnut St.
Walnut St.
Locust St.
Spruce St.
Pine St.
Lombard St. (to the Schuylkill Expwy westbound)
South St.
Bainbridge St.
Fitzwater St.
Catherine St.
Christian St.
Carpenter St.
Washington Ave. (to the Italian Market and I-95, eastbound)
Ellsworth St.
Federal St.
Wharton St.
Reed St.
Dickinson St.
...etc.
A block is considered to be the space between two through
streets, so called through because they travel most of their
longer distance without barriers. A block can include a number of smaller
and shorter side streets; these may allow you to travel only
one or a few blocks at a time without homes blocking thoroughfare. A block
is usually a bit less than 1/10 of a mile; which makes it easy to know that
we, at 1006 S. 9th St., are about 10 blocks, or 1 mile, from Market
St.
In the area north of Market St. and between Front St. and the Schuylkill
River, the grid system generally continues as described above. East of Front
St. you'll need a map or a cabbie to help you navigate.
Happy traveling!
Italian Market Links:
See Our Page - Photos and
links to merchants, restaurants, and other sites of interest in and around
Philadelphia's historic South 9th Street Italian Market:
www.fantes.com/italian-market.html
Here are some more pages about the Italian Market...
ItalianMarketPhilly.org -
Website of the Italian Market Merchants Assn
Epinion.com - "Don't Miss the Italian Market"
Frommer's - Philadelphia & Amish Country
Wikipedia
- Brief history
Yelp.com - Reviews of the Italian Market
VisitPhilly.com -
From the Phila Official Visitors Site
WikimediaCommons - Images of the Italian Market
Flickr.com - Images of the Italian Market
PhillyHistory.org - Archival images of the Italian Market
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