it is the NIS website which has some amazing data on it. it takes some time to get used to:
http://www.cml.upenn.edu/nis/

this is the page that you can look up ant hood:
http://www.cml.upenn.edu/nbase/nbProfileRequest.asp
under the basic column just pick a hood and it will make a map for you. this website also does some interesting data mapping and info on neighborhood dynamics. have fun.

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I don't know what's worse "Art Museum" or "Graduate Hospital"

I use "Art Museum"... but I don't know what else to use. I live at 19th/Green.. what else would you call it?

What is "Spring Garden"? Is 24th and Spring Garden "Spring Garden"? Is 10th and Spring Garden "Spring Garden"?

Didja look at the map I was responding to by any chance?
People definitely call 19th and Green Spring Garden, they also call it Fairmount. People don't usually use those terms for East of Broad

i couldnt find an art museum area on the NIS website, here is what i found.
this is where it came from:
http://www.cml.upenn.edu/nbase/nbProfileRequest.asp

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The water fountin(not working) behind the museum (actully the NW front) was given to the city in 1939 by Benito Mussolini , at the time the city had more Itailans then NYC, true fact.

I would say you're in Spring Garden. I think it's generally used to refer to all of the area between Fairmount Ave. & Spring Garden St. west of Broad. Not sure what the neighborhoods east of Broad in that tier are called.

I live in South Philly and I never use the term "art museum area". It makes me cringe when i hear it.

When i say "Fairmount" i'm referring to everything on either side of Fairmount Ave. Everything between 17th & the Parkway and Girard and Spring Garden.

Everything between Spring Garden and the Parkway and out to 17th is what i call "the Parkway." Again this is just what it means to me as an outsider.

But those names definitely don't extend to the other side of Broad St.

No Libs is Delaware to 7th and Spring Garden to Girard. Old City is the same thing but between Spring Garden and Walnut. You can visit the civic association websites for that information.

Broad St. to 11th between Vine and Spring Garden is the Loft District.

I think a general rule for anyone in the real estate or planning professions should be to defer to local civic associations first. When there's a no-mans-land between associations (like the two block gap between Pennsport and Passyunk Square) i would tack it on to the closest one.

Sorry for the interruption, Passyunk Sq., but the no-man's land you refer to is in fact someone's land and it's called Dickinson Narrows - Philadelphia's newest old neighborhood! News to you perhaps, but important to those of us who've lived here for decades. We're happy to be neither Passyunk Sq. nor Pennsport.

When my home was built (1849) the area south of Cedar (South Street today) was an incorporated town called Southwark (which included Passyunk Square, by the way - or is it Passyunk Triangle now?). Much may have changed in the way of names, people, attitudes, etc. but mercifully, the building still stands, no matter how provincial and tribal its inhabitants become.

Being possessive about your community can be a good thing if it reflects the care you provide to your neighborhood; but being 'exclusive' about it is not a good thing and has led to too much conflict in what should be a beautiful city without borders. "Oh, I'm from here, I'm from there"...Gimme a break!

Given that rationale, if it weren't for gravity, the earth would be telling the moon to "get lost." Come to think of it, that would mean we wouldn't have tides, which would also mean that we'd have no marshlands, which would therefore mean that the areas formerly known as Southwark, Moyamensing, and Passyunk would have succumbed to the Schuyllkill and the Delaware rivers long before most bloggers ancestors would have arrived and would, as a result, have no ground to stand on. Just a thought!

Fairmount / Art Museum / Brewerytown or whatever you want to call it won't change the fact it part of North Philadelphia.