Its Double-A affiliate is the Reading Phillies, which plays in Reading, Pennsylvania, and its Triple-A affiliate is the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, which plays in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The new owners moved the team to Allentown, Pennsylvania, beginning with the 2008 season, where it is known as the Lehigh Valley IronPigs.

Interstate 78 ( abbreviated I-78 ) is an Interstate Highway in the Northeast United States, running 144 miles ( 231 km ) from Interstate 81 northeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, through Allentown, Pennsylvania, and western and northern New Jersey to the Holland Tunnel and Lower Manhattan in New York City.

Its county seat is Allentown, the state's third largest city behind Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

By air, the county is served by Lehigh Valley International Airport near Allentown, Pennsylvania or Newark Liberty International Airport.

There are, as of mid-2008, a few old concrete bridges dating from the 1930s and 1940s between the White Horse Circle and Allentown, which list sections of what is now County Route 524 as having been Route 37 at that time, as well as one or two along County Route 539 south of Allentown.

Allentown is a Borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.

Allentown is located at ( 40. 178561 ,- 74. 590095 ).

Allentown is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government by a mayor and a six-member Borough Council.

, the Mayor of Allentown is Stuart Fierstein.

Allentown is in the 4th Congressional district and is part of New Jersey's 12th state legislative district.

Allentown is about one hour southwest of Manhattan via the Turnpike and about 50 minutes northeast of Philadelphia.

Bus service between New York City and Allentown, Pennsylvania on the Transport of New Jersey bus line is available on a daily service.

Lehigh Valley International Airport near Allentown, Pennsylvania is away.

Kutztown is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, southwest of Allentown and northeast of Reading.

Reading is the principal city of the Greater Reading Area and had a population of 88, 082 as of the 2010 census, making it the fifth most populated city in the state, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown and Erie, and the sixth most-populous municipality.

A local north-to-south thoroughfare is Allentown Road, which extends south from Coopersburg into Montgomery County.

Quakertown is considered part of the Allentown – Bethlehem urbanized area and the Philadelphia – Camden – Vineland ( PA – NJ – DE ) MSA.

Lansford is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, located northwest of Allentown and 9 miles south of Hazleton.

Lehighton is located in northeast Pennsylvania north / northwest of Allentown and south of Wilkes-Barre.

It is a part of lower Carbon County, which is considered part of the Lehigh Valley and the greater Allentown Metropolitan Area.

* Allentown ( Pittsburgh ), neighborhood on the south side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission operates a year-round indoor and outdoor public swimming pool on Allentown Road.

Trans-Bridge Lines offers buses on a route that provides service from Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan and New York City-area airports at a stop at the park-and-ride on Route 31 in Clinton.

Allentown was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on January 29, 1889, from portions of Upper Freehold Township, based on the results of a referendum held that day.

From 1881 to January 1893 several of the settlements in the Township ( most notably Allentown ) were on the Wellsville-Eldred Main Line of the Bradford, Eldred & Cuba Railroad ( BE & C ).

The four-lane highway 309 crosses the west end north-to-south en route from Allentown to Quakertown while 212 comes north from Quakertown and 412 comes SE from Bethlehem to join eastward through Springtown and diverge to end on Route 611 in Durham Furnace and Harrow, respectively.

Emmaus is accessible by two Lehigh County highways, Cedar Crest Boulevard, located on the borough's west-side, and Lehigh Street, which is located on the borough's east-side and connects Emmaus with Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

The largest major shopping mall in the Emmaus area is South Mall, located on Lehigh Street on Emmaus ' border with Salisbury Township and Allentown.

It is drained by the Lehigh River, which separates it from Bethlehem and the east side of Allentown, and its border with Upper Saucon is on Lehigh Mountain.

At that time, according to historians, "... many prominent and influential men who lived in the vicinity of Guthsville exerted themselves to secure the selection of the village as the place best adapted for the county seat on account of its situation in the geographical center of the large area of territory to be erected into a separate county, but their efforts proved unavailing and the advocates of Allentown were successful.

145 and 873 have their northern termini on 248 in Lehigh Gap and extend downriver via Treichlers to Allentown and south via Slatington to Schnecksville, respectively.

Route 309 North goes to Hazleton and into Wilkes-Barre, while Route 309 South leads to Allentown and on to Philadelphia.

Craig Bartlett stated in an interview that the city on the show is based on large northern cities, which includes Seattle ( his hometown ), Portland, Oregon ( where he went to art school ) and New York City ( from which many landmarks were borrowed ), also with references to Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry ; as well as Hawk Mountain near Allentown, PA, as mentioned in the Sally's Comet Episode.

The song " Allentown ", which brought attention to the plight of America's declining steel industry, spent an unprecedented six weeks at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1983.

It had its premiere at Muhlenberg College, located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States on March 24, 2010.

She died in Allentown on December 30, 1999.

Hot Shoppes ) and the franchises located throughout Mid-Atlantic highway rest-stops serve the food in a cafeteria-style, with the exception of the Allentown service plaza on the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension, which serves its customers in the typical fast-food fashion since it reopened in May 2008 ( the entire service plaza had been rebuilt ).

General public indoor and outdoor swimming pools are also on Allentown Road near Padgett's Corner.

" Allentown " is a song by American singer Billy Joel, which first appeared on Joel's The Nylon Curtain ( 1982 ) album, accompanied by a conceptual music video.

Allentown High School which has an enrollment of 1, 179 students in grades 9-12.

Students in public school for grades K through 12 attend the schools of the Upper Freehold Regional School District, which serves students from Allentown Borough and Upper Freehold Township, as well as those from Millstone Township, which sends students to the High School as part of a sending / receiving relationship.

Highway 22 crosses it east-to-west and interchanges in the township with Airport Road, which extends northeast toward Bath as Route 987 and south into Allentown.

Another thoroughfare is Mauch Chunk Road, which runs from 329 in Ballietsville into Allentown.

Between 1900 and 1926, Lehigh Valley Transit Company operated its Chestnut Hill Branch trolley line, which connected North Wales to surrounding towns through service to either Philadelphia or Allentown.

329 and 987 join in Franks Corner to meet 248 in Bath, which 512 and 987 connect with Allentown and Bethlehem respectively to the south.

Its numbered roads include the east-to-west Highway 22 and north-to-south Routes 512 and 987, which connect Bath with Bethlehem and Allentown as Bath Pike and Airport Road, respectively.

The league's original name was the Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League ; it fielded six franchises – five in Pennsylvania ( Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, Allentown, Lancaster, and Reading ) – with a sixth team in New York ( Binghamton, which moved in mid-season to Pottsville, Pennsylvania ).

In November 2008, the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation ( LVEDC ), along with both Lehigh and Northampton counties, commissioned a study to explore expanding the Raritan Valley Line to the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, which would potentially include stops in Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton.

It is also the Metropolitan See of the Ecclesiastical Province of Philadelphia, which includes the suffragan episcopal sees of Allentown, Altoona-Johnstown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, and Scranton.

The Hutchins brothers served in an all-Oberlin unit, Section 587, which for much of the war was stationed at the Allentown Fair Grounds, where they were tasked with creating a barracks.

For over 100 years, the bandshell has been the home to the Allentown Band, of which Goldman was the first guest conductor in 1927.