Northwood
Northwood, an area of the Frankford section of Philadelphia, is bounded on the north by Roosevelt Boulevard, on the northeast by Cheltenham Avenue, on the west by Oakland Cemetery and Greenwood Cemetery, Juniata Park and Frankford Creek, and on the southeast by Frankford Avenue.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: Pennsylvania, a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood
- Also known as: “Northwood, Philadelphia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Greenwood Cemetery and Friends Hospital.
Greenwood Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: BillFlis, Public domain.
Greenwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was established in 1869, is 43 acres in size and contains approximately 20,000 graves.
Friends Hospital
Hospital
Friends Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1813 by Quakers as The Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason, the institution was later renamed the Frankford Asylum for the Insane.
Arrott Transit Center
Metro station
Arrott Transit Center is an elevated rapid transit station and bus station serving SEPTA Metro L trains and SEPTA City Bus routes. It is located at the intersection of Frankford Avenue, Oxford Avenue, Arrott Street, Paul Street, and Margaret Street in the Frankford neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Frankford and Juniata.
Frankford
Neighborhood
Frankford is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia situated about six miles northeast of Center City. Although its borders are vaguely defined, the neighborhood is bounded roughly by the original course of Frankford Creek on the south…
Juniata
Neighborhood
Photo: Curtbookworm90, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Juniata is a working class neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, which is a section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Juniata is located south of the Juniata Golf Club in Tacony Creek Park.
Oxford Circle
Neighborhood
Oxford Circle is a neighborhood in the lower Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its namesake is the much used traffic circle at Roosevelt Boulevard and Oxford Avenue.
Northwood
- Category: locality
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.02011° or 40° 1′ 12″ northLongitude
-75.09601° or 75° 5′ 46″ westElevation
85 feet (26 metres)Open location code
87G62WC3+2HOpenStreetMap ID
node 158551778OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
“Northwood” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Northwood”
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