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Neighborhoods: Hawthorne |
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Hawthorne
is a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. It is located between Broad Street and 11th
Street, and extends from South Street to Washington Avenue.
The most prominent landmark in the neighborhood was Martin
Luther King Jr. Plaza, a public housing highrise complex at
13th and Fitzwater Street, originally called Hawthorne Square.
The four MLK towers were imploded on October 17, 1999, and
have been slowly replaced with a mix of low-rise public housing,
based on New Urbanism ideas, thanks to the HOPE VI program.
Hawthorne
is in transition, one of the few neighborhoods contiguous
to Center City, Philadelphia that has been left relatively
untouched by major upscale development. It is also sandwiched
between gentrifying neighborhoods: Southwest Center City is
to its west and Bella Vista is to its east.
The High
School for the Creative and Performing Arts is also located
in Hawthorne, in the former Ridgway Library. The ornate building
dates to 1878 and is modeled after the Parthenon.
History
According
to Sandra Robinson, Hawthorne Square was originally the name
given to the area between roughly Lombard and Bainbridge.
A popular African American nightlife spot for jazz musicians,
vices, and rowdy bars, it was also a site of poverty and street
crime. When the city made an effort to revitalize Society
Hill and the neighborhood now called Washington Square West,
the community of Hawthorne Square was essentially pushed to
the south and west, creating "Hawthorne" with its
current boundaries.
Source
of Article:
Wikipedia.
(2008). Hawthorne, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Retrieved
May 30, 2008 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Pennsylvania |
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The
Hawthorne Empowerment Coalition
Martin
Luther King Jr. Plaza implosion footage |
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