Kensington's Norris Square

Philadelphia, PA - serlingrod - Monday, August 24th, 2009 : goo

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My girlfriend and I moved from Center City to a beautiful rowhouse in Kensington. Here are some pictures of our new neighborhood near Norris Square. With its high concentration of factories during the industrial revolution, Kensington was once referred to as the Workshop of the World (www.workshopoftheworld.com). Since deindustrialization and white flight occurred after World War II, much of the neighborhood has become blighted. However many sections are quite healthy, with large populations of Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics locating here in the past few decades and investing heavily in the area. There’s also been a large influx in recent years of young creative professionals who have been gentrifying the area.

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