Joseph A. Ferko Playground

Joseph A. Ferko Playground is a recreation area in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Joseph A. Ferko Playground is situated near Juniata Park, as well as near Juniata Golf Course.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Greenwood Cemetery and Friends Hospital.

Greenwood Cemetery

Cemetery

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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. Greenwood Cemetery is situated 2,900 feet northeast of Joseph A. Ferko Playground.

Friends Hospital

Hospital

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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. Friends Hospital is situated 1 mile north of Joseph A. Ferko Playground.

Erie–Torresdale station

Metro station

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Erie–Torresdale station is an elevated rapid transit station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served by SEPTA Metro L trains. It is located at the intersection of Kensington, Erie, and Torresdale avenues in the Juniata neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia. Erie–Torresdale station is situated 3,800 feet southeast of Joseph A. Ferko Playground.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Juniata and Northwood.

Juniata

Neighborhood

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Juniata is a working class neighborhood in North 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.

Northwood

Neighborhood

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.

Feltonville

Neighborhood

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Feltonville is a working-class neighborhood in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located east of Logan and Hunting Park, west of Lawncrest and Juniata, south of Olney, and north of Fairhill and Harrowgate.

Joseph A. Ferko Playground

Type: Recreation area
Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.01471° or 40° 0′ 53″ north

Longitude

-75.10371° or 75° 6′ 13″ west

Open location code

87G62V7W+VG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 784022733

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=recreation_ground

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Juniata Park and Juniata Golf Course.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Holy Innocents School and Debris Dam.

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