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Phillycheese4evr t1_jdvbdwz wrote

Technically fishtown is Port Richmond. They just renamed it 15 years ago so they could sell properties at higher value

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John_EightThirtyTwo t1_jdvcn0o wrote

That phenomenon does happen -- for example, "the Art Museum area" was a euphemism for "Fairmount" before Fairmount was gentrified -- but Port Richmond and Fishtown are distinct neighborhoods. I remember people saying they were from each of those places back in the '70s.

source: am old

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ADFC t1_jdvjpmr wrote

If he said "Norris Square" or "East Kensington", he wouldn't have been wrong tbf

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NotUnstoned t1_jdvgevk wrote

Technically it’s all Kensington. The church by girard and Columbia is named “First Presbyterian Church in Kensington”

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Dryheavemorning t1_jdvvu10 wrote

Technically that was only true prior to 1854 and even then there were distinct neighborhoods in Kensington.

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NotUnstoned t1_jdwe30y wrote

Technically it was just a bunch of land and trees and shit until the Lenape settled there.

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Allemaengel t1_jdvc754 wrote

TIL.

Feeling dumb for not knowing that. Thought Fishtown has always been distinct.

Edit: JFC, people. I don't know that neighborhood well but like to learn. So it has developed separately under its own name. That's cool.

So spare me the downvotes and just correct the record, will ya?

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ADFC t1_jdvgd7g wrote

But he's wrong though; Fishtown and Port Richmond have been distinctly separated by the traintracks down Lehigh Ave. since the 1870s. If he's referring to the weird triangle of "Olde Richmond", that was part of Port Richmond until they drove i95 through the neighborhood.

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Allemaengel t1_jdvxkwg wrote

Gotcha.

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ADFC t1_jdw09g6 wrote

Fishtown/East Kensington has been an area that pretty much blended into one tbf, but Fishtown and Richmond have always been distinct from one another, even by ethnicity. Back in the day, Fishtown was mostly an Irish enclave while Port Richmond is the cultural center of Philly’s Polish activity. Still mostly holds true to this day.

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