Center City, Philadelphia

Center City, Philadelphia
Neighborhood of Philadelphia
Center City Philadelphia showing the Pennsylvania Convention Center bottom left and City Hall upper right
Center City within Philadelphia
Country	United States of America
State	Pennsylvania
County	Philadelphia
City	Philadelphia
Area
• Total	2.07 sq mi (5.4 km2)
Population (2010)
• Total	57,239
• Density	27,614.1/sq mi (10,661.9/km2)
ZIP Code	19102, 19103, 19106, 19107, 19146, 19147

External audio

One Day at Little Pete’s in Center City, 19103, 3:26, "Every Zip Philadelphia", WHYY

A Photographer and A Friar Find Common Ground in Chinatown, 19107, 5:56, "Every Zip Philadelphia", WHYY

Center City includes the central business district and central neighborhoods of Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is the former City of Philadelphia prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854 which extended the city borders to be coterminous with Philadelphia County. Greater Center City has grown into the second-most populated downtown area in the United States, after Midtown Manhattan in New York City, with an estimated 183,240 residents in 2015.

Center City is bounded by South Street to the south, the Delaware River to the east, the Schuylkill River to the west, and Vine Street to the north. This means that Center City occupies the boundaries of the city before it was made coterminous with Philadelphia County in 1854. The Center City District, which has special powers of taxation, uses a complicated, irregularly shaped boundary that includes much but not all of this area, and also extends beyond it. The Philadelphia Police Department patrols three districts located within Center City. The three patrol districts serving Center City are the 6th, 9th, and 17th districts.

Among Center City's neighborhoods and districts are Penn's Landing, Old City, Society Hill, South Street, Washington Square West, Market East, Chinatown, Logan Square, the Museum District (located along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway), Rittenhouse Square, Fitler Square, the Avenue of the Arts (South Broad Street), and Jewelers' Row.