Cedar Park is a neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located in the larger West Philadelphia district, it stretches north to Larchwood Ave., south to Kingsessing Ave., east to 46th Street, and west to 52nd Street.[1][2]

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Cedar Park
Neighborhood of Philadelphia
Home in Cedar Park
Cedar Park
Coordinates:
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Philadelphia County
City	Philadelphia
Area code(s)	215, 267, and 445

Originally outlying farmland, Cedar Park was built between 1850 and 1910 as a streetcar suburb[3] of Center City. Its development as a suburb accelerated with the installation of horsecars in the 1850s and again with the arrival of electric trolley lines in 1892.[4]

It is racially and ethnically diverse, and much of the historic Queen Anne-style architecture still stands.

Since about 2000, the neighborhood has been undergoing gentrification stimulated by the University of Pennsylvania's redevelopment plan for West Philadelphia. There is a distinct progressive-politics mien to the neighborhood and a sizable African immigrant community located along and near Baltimore Avenue between 46th and 49th Streets. Cedar Park's residents are predominantly Jamaican/Caribbean and African immigrants, but many are African American (American-born blacks) or white.^{[citation needed]}

Gallery

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  47th Street and Baltimore Ave
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  Queen Anne-style rooftops
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  Houses on Baltimore Ave
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  Rowhouses on 48th Street between Cedar and Walton Streets
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  SEPTA'S Route 34 trolley in the 4500 block of Baltimore Avenue

See also

• St. Francis de Sales Church

External links

• Cedar Park Neighborhood Association
• InfoResources West Philadelphia Neighborhood - Cedar Park

References