Is the 5200 block of Oxford really part of Northwood? It seems outside Northwood.

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That apartment building seemed shady back in the early 90s. It definitely doesn't feel like it is part of Northwood, but I believe officially it is in Northwood.

I recall seeing Oakland Street being Northwood's eastern border on a map at some point. Even it isn't, it's across the street from Northwood.

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Oxford Avenue is the border for Northwood. The western side (I guess that's what you would call it...where there are no businesses) is Northwood. So techically, I don't believe the Towers are Northwood, like a PP said they're right across the street though.

The Towers have been shady as long as I can remember (as is that 7-11) and I grew up there in the 80s. I recently visited CAPE which has offices on the bottom floor and it was scary inside.

-gina

Yep, unfortunately, it's Northwood.

isn't that frankford and Oxford?? BAD area..

I thought Northwood zoning laws forbade apartments.

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chances are the dude with the duct tape was involved in something that he shouldn't have.

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I give kudos to the cops. They usually get a bad rap, but coming face to face with those guns is part of their job.

Way to go officers.

Lucky to that lady screamed her head off. Saved their lives.

In certain parts of Northwood this is true about the deed restrictions, but in other parts they are grandfathered in or are not restricted. Probably Joe - Northwood Civic President could give you more accurate information about this. I do believe, however, that it's mostly to preserve the single homes in that area. Ask Joe.
In any case, each summer the crap we deal with in Frankford just seeps into all the surrounding areas and Northwood is the last "decent" area left that's close to Frankford (other than Mayfair) and the signs are there, which is why Northwood residents are smart to adopt a "No Tolerance" policy on any more of the disease.
Just walking around Northwood Park and the Rec Center sends radar up because it's not going to take to much for these scavangers to realize that there just isn't anything left to destroy, steal or vandalize in Frankford and will move in to more lucrative pickings.

Northwood is a beautiful area .... fantastic homes .... good folks.
It would be sort of across the Roosevelt Blvd. from the old Sears
building .... now Home Depot I believe.

Wikipedia info:


These demographic changes, along with the building of the Market-Frankford Line train and new arterial highways, such as the Roosevelt Boulevard, brought new middle class populations to the lower half of the Northeast. Vast tracts of row homes were built in that section of the Northeast for new arrivals in the 1920s and 1930s, typically with small, but valued front lawns, which impart a "garden suburb" quality to much of the Northeast, reducing the sense of physical density felt elsewhere in the city. Much of this development occurred along the southern edge of the Northeast (Northwood), east of Roosevelt Boulevard (Mayfair, Torresdale) and along the Northeast's western fringe (Burholme).



Frankford and Cottman Avenues, a central location in the Northeast




After World War II, newer arrivals, armed with the mortgage benefits of the GI Bill, brought the baby boom to the Northeast. This newer population was heavily Jewish or ethnic Catholic, and completed the development of the region, filling in undeveloped areas of Rhawnhurst and Bell's Corner and developing the previously rural Far Northeast. As older sections of the city lost populations of young families, the Northeast's school-age population swelled, requiring rapid expansion of schools, libraries, cinemas, shopping, transportation, restaurants and other needed amenities.
The period from 1945 through the 1970s was marked in many American cities by urban decline in older, more industrial areas. This was especially true in Philadelphia, in which much of the city's North, West and South sections lost population, factories, jobs and commerce, especially associated with "white flight." During the postwar period however, the Northeast experienced a heavy influx of growing middle class families, and had become an almost exclusively white community. This aroused controversy in the 1960s and 70s, as passions for and against school busing were focused on the Northeast, to address racial imbalances, especially in the city's public schools. That racial imbalance was ultimately addressed by the upward mobility enjoyed by many of the graduates of the Northeast's excellent public and parochial school systems, who made their way out of the Northeast and into the suburbs from the 1980s onward, making room for new arrivals from the city's Latino, African American and Asian populations. Today, the Northeast enjoys greater racial balance and relative stability. The region is uniformly developed, but like many American urban communities, it has witnessed the loss of manufacturing, factory conversions to marginal retail "outlets," and growing vacancies along shopping avenues, especially in the southern part of the region.

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