Wynnefield Heights, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Wynnefield Heights, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Wynnefield Heights is a middle class neighborhood in the greater West Philadelphia area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. This suburban neighborhood bordering on City Avenue was built in the late 1950s on the site of the former Woodside Amusement Park near the city's Fairmount Park. Wynnefield Heights is the home of WPVI-TV Channel 6, the City Line shopping center, Holiday Inn, Hilton Hotel, TGI Friday's, Target (opening on July 29th, 2007 on the former Adam's Mark Hotel site), the Belmont Reservoir, and the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks (Troop K). It is also the home of The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, or PCOM, a school of some 1,300 medical students and graduate-level students, which also serves as the Philadelphia 76ers practice facilities.
Wynnefield Heights' borders are Fairmount Park to the east, Belmont Avenue to the west, Edgely Drive to the south, and City Avenue to the north. This community is racially balanced with 48% African-American, 51% Caucasian, and 1% other. At this time there are no schools within Wynnefield Heights even though many children of school age live there.
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