It’s pretty clear at this point big media outlets aren’t putting in the work it takes to discern a neighborhood from a street.

So that non of us has to do work, may we suggest that the city just expand Frankford to include everything on Frankford Avenue?

The southern-most Frankford border along the avenue is at the Torresdale Avenue intersection — 3.3. miles away, you’ll find the 1500- and 1700- blocks of Frankford Avenue. continue reading »

Q: I recently received a letter from a gentleman wanting to buy my house. First of all, my house is not up for sale. I decided to contact him and he said he and his wife are buying homes and reselling them. He also explained that people are being forced out of neighborhoods like Northern Liberties and Fishtown and moving to the Northeast. Is this a common practice sending letters to homeowners and is he correct?

A: Northern Liberties and Fishtown are both deemed to be up-and-coming neighborhoods, widely considered solid investments in the future of the Philadelphia real estate market. I don’t know why someone would say people are being “forced out” of any these or any other neighborhoods in Philadelphia. continue reading »

Ask any Philadelphia newcomer living in Fishtown, Port Richmond or Kensington where they live and they’re likely to tell you the Northeast. That misconception has now been extended beyond those boundaries, into the widest reaches of Northern Liberties.

Kudos to NEast Philly reader John Gormely for pointing out this laughable mistake from the Inquirer: continue reading »

It’s been quite some time since Fishtown was mistaken for being part of the Northeast.

But the Town of Fish is back, thanks to Flying Kite, a new weekly online magazine aimed at covering what’s cool in Philadelphia.

Flying Kite has a Neighborhoods sidebar, similar to NEast Philly’s, where readers can click neighborhood links and get the local news. Since Flying Kite is a citywide publication, neighborhoods are broken down by region.

Look closely at the Northeast. The two neighborhoods underneath are Northeast and Fishtown.

Whaaaaa…? continue reading »

Outside media don’t care about the Northeast. We have all seen them misuse, misspell and mistake our neighborhoods and our streets, so we at NEast mag wanted to do something about it. When they get it wrong, we set it right in a segment we like to call Right NEast/Wrong NEast.

By Shannon McDonald

Those Temple students are at it again. It’s week one of Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab’s summer session, so the students are out in the neighborhoods.

Team 9 was assigned to Fishtown, which, by their calculation, is in the Northeast. Even Fishtown natives will tell you they don’t live in the NEast, but we’ll cut the MURL students some slack, as it’s their first week out. To the school’s credit, at least Temple is teaching its students about Philadelphia.

Outside media don’t care about the Northeast. We have all seen them misuse, misspell and mistake our neighborhoods and our streets, so we at NEast mag wanted to do something about it. When they get it wrong, we set it right in a segment we like to call Right NEast/Wrong NEast.

By Shannon McDonald

WHYY might need some new copy editors.

Writer Chris Satullo’s article about Thursday’s budget workshop at St. Dom’s placed the Catholic grade school in Frankford, nowhere near its home in Upper Holmesburg.

To make matters worse, after we pointed out Satullo’s error, a “correction” of sorts was made. St. Dom’s is now qualified as being situated in the lower Northeast, a term the City of Philadelphia reserves for neighborhoods like Fishtown and Kensington, neither of which are NEast.

The third strike? No one even admitted to the mistake. Rather than cross out the initial Frankford reference, someone subtly snuck in and changed the location without noting the correction.

Someone should warn St. Dom’s students that this will make for a longer commute to school.

See other Right NEast/Wrong NEast posts.