![]() ![]() Despite this, since the 1990s some revitalization efforts have taken place such organizations as South Philadelphia H.O.M.E.S. From 1990 through 2000 Point Breeze lost approximately 10% of its population. The Point Breeze Performing Arts Center opened in 1984 on Point Breeze Avenue. Between 19 the Philadelphia Police department conducted raids in Point Breeze to shut down the Carr family drug ring it reportedly had been selling $1.3 million per year in crack, cocaine and prescription drugs. The heroin epidemic of the 1970s, and crack epidemic of the '90s and related crime adversely affected Point Breeze. Also at this time, people who could afford it often moved to newer suburban housing, aided by greater ease in commuting by public transit and highways. ![]() Residents called it "The Breeze." Rising racial tensions, fear of race riots and white flight in the 1960s and 1970s resulted in many businesses moving away, and the neighborhood becoming majority African American. Through the 1960s Point Breeze was reported to be a safe, clean, relatively integrated, and self-sufficient neighborhood, with a thriving business district along Point Breeze Avenue. Washington Avenue and 19th Street, looking into Point Breeze At this time the African-American center of Philadelphia was shifting from near Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church at 6th and Lombard, to west of Broad. In 1930s numerous African Americans settled here, some of whom had come North in the Great Migration, escaping Jim Crow in the South and looking for work in industrial cities. "The earliest references to Point Breeze" as a neighborhood "date to 1895." The area was first settled by working-class European Jewish immigrants, followed by Italian and Irish immigrants. Long Lane also began to be known as Point Breeze Avenue by 1895 and lent its name to the neighborhood that was to spring up here. In the mid-to-late 1800s, development of Philadelphia continued westward from the Delaware River and southward from Market Street. The Avenue that connected the city proper to the east side of the river at Point Breeze was known in 1808 as "Long Lane." Oil that had been extracted in Western Pennsylvania could be processed here and then shipped down the Schuylkill, to the Delaware and out to sea. In the 1860s it and the area across on the eastern side of the river were developed as an area for oil refinery by the Atlantic Petroleum Company, later the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). ![]() "Point Breeze" was a point on the western side of the Schuylkill River, approximately where the Passyunk Avenue bridge is today. Point Breeze is separated from Grays Ferry to the west by a CSX railway viaduct over 25th Street.Īccording to historical maps, much of what is South Philadelphia, including Point Breeze, was still not yet developed and integrated into the rectilinear grid system by 1843 or later. Graduate Hospital lies to its north, and Newbold lies to its east. It is bounded by 25th Street to the west, Washington Avenue to the north, 18th Street to the east, and Moore Street to the south. Take your family or friends out for a day of fun activities at Chew Playground and Recreation Facility, on 19th and Washington, Wharton Square and Recreation Facility on 23rd and Wharton or Smith Playground and Recreation Facility/Wilson Park on 24th and Snyder.Point Breeze is a multicultural neighborhood in South Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Point Breeze is also home to several indoor and outdoor recreational areas. You’ll be taking your dog out for a stroll in this dog-friendly neighborhood, meeting fun people from diverse backgrounds and tasting delicious food at some great restaurants around the corner. Residents enjoy how walkable Point Breeze is, being close to Center City and well-connected by public transportation. During warm periods, a festive pop-up beer garden and outdoor jazz concerts take place on Ellsworth Street, down the road from Keith Haring's mural 'We Are the Youth.' Vietnamese and Mexican restaurants sit beside gastro pubs serving craft beer, attracting a laid-back local crowd. ![]() Point Breeze is a hip and culturally diverse community anchored by edgy coffee shops and dive bars. ![]()
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