Broad Street (Philadelphia)

Broad Street

Northernmost street sign for Broad Street, at its intersection with Cheltenham Avenue
Other name(s)	Avenue of the Arts
Part of	PA 611
Owner	City of Philadelphia
Maintained by	Streets Department
Length	12.4 mi (20.0 km)
Location	Philadelphia
Nearest metro station	Broad Street Line
Coordinates	39°56′45″N 75°09′55″W / 39.9459°N 75.1652°W / 39.9459; -75.1652Coordinates: 39°56′45″N 75°09′55″W / 39.9459°N 75.1652°W / 39.9459; -75.1652
South end	Admiral Peary Way in Navy Yard
Major junctions	I-95 in Packer Park I-76 in Packer Park PA 3 in Center City I-76 / US 30 in Callowhill US 13 in Hunting Park US 1 in Hunting Park PA 611 in West Oak Lane
North end	PA 309 (Cheltenham Avenue) in West Oak Lane
East	13th and Junpier Streets
West	15th and Carlisle Streets
Construction
Commissioned	1682

Broad Street is a major arterial street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It runs for approximately 13 miles beginning at the intersection of Cheltenham Avenue on the border of Cheltenham Township and the West/East Oak Lane neighborhoods of North Philadelphia to the Philadelphia Navy Yard in South Philadelphia. It is Pennsylvania Route 611 along its entire length with the exception of its northernmost part between historic Old York Road and Pennsylvania Route 309 (Cheltenham Avenue) and the southernmost part south of Interstate 95.

Broad Street runs north–south, in between 13th Street and 15th Street, containing what would otherwise be known as 14th Street in the Philadelphia grid plan. It is interrupted by Philadelphia City Hall, which stands where Broad and Market Street would intersect in the center of the city. The streets of Penn Square, Juniper Street, John F. Kennedy Boulevard, and 15th Street form a circle around City Hall at this point. It is one of the earliest planned streets in the United States, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a continuous north-south street, planned by surveyor Thomas Holme and developed for Philadelphia in 1681

Public transportation includes SEPTA's Broad Street Line subway, which served an average of about 137,000 riders per weekday in 2010, running beneath Broad for most of its length. The subway starts in the Fern Rock neighborhood and extends through Center City to Pattison Avenue in South Philadelphia.