The Cafe Harlem is in Yeadon Borough actually. As for Lansdowne proper the area's west of Lansdowne ave are typically nicer as a rule, maily because it's mostly home owners. The town itself has a pretty brief downtown with a few good eateries, and the bordering streets on the edges of the borough have mini business districts too.

Lansdowne is pretty comparable with Germantown/Mt. Airy, in that it's a wide spectrum of nice and not so nice area's, nothing horrible though. East Lansdowne seems to have some nasty characters hanging around, but it also has some nice tree lined steets, particuarly on Penn Blvd. Stay away from Stonehurst and the Long Lane area, it's pretty unsafe these days.