Can anyone tell me anything about "Logan"? What streets define it, is it a safe area, is it improving or getting worse? really anything would be helpfull. Thanks!

Try searching under "logan" for background--there's quite a lot of that until someone who can update you with something more recent can get back to you.

No, it is not a safe area. High crime area.

It is getting worse.

check out http://cml.upenn.edu/nbase and http://cml.upenn.edu/crimebase

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Logan begins at 16th street near Stenton Park and stretches to Ogontz ave near Wister Woods at Lindley and across Broad (east side to the Bvld) and North up to Somerville ave. to about 7th or 6th Street.


I grew up in the area when middle class blacks began to move in. When homeowners began to sell, and homes began to sink, the neighborhood changed.

There is an apartment complex on Old York road and some huge homes in the 1300 Block of wagnr across from the Logan Library.

Old York road is home to many Southeast Asians.

I know I'm all over the place; Logan is not safe.

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The area was once part of the plantation of James Logan, adviser to William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania. Modern transportation formed the community: the Broad Street Subway, which opened in 1928, and a thriving network of streetcar and bus routes, allowed development of what was then considered one of the earliest suburban communities in Philadelphia, though the area is considered urban today. The transportation network still provides Logan residents easy access to the rest of the city.
In 1980, the Fishers Lane Historic District was created, certifying 12 Second Empire and Italianate architecture style buildings.

Centered approximately on the intersection of Broad Street and Lindley Avenue, the neighborhood is bordered by the Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood in the south, Germantown in the west, and Olney in the north and east. It is generally considered to be bordered in the south by Wingohocking Street, in the west by 16th Street and Wakefield Park, in the north by Olney Avenue, and in the east by a railroad right-of-way just east of Marshall Street. The terrain is generally flat. Wingohocking Creek flows under Wingohocking Street along Logan's southern border.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan,_...,_Pennsylvania

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