The yellow and blue jerseys, the same colors found on Philadelphia's city flag, are based on those worn by the Philadelphia Eagles in the team's inaugural season, and were the same colors used by the former Frankford Yellow Jackets franchise prior to their suspension of operations in 1931.

Originally known as League Island Park, these grounds are now occupied by FDR Park, Marconi Plaza, Packer Park Residential Neighborhood, the four facilities of Philadelphia's massive South Philadelphia Sports Complex ( Wachovia Spectrum.

Buffalo wings are used in competitive eating events, such as Philadelphia's Wing Bowl and at the National Buffalo Wing Festival.

Social registers and society pages listed the privileged, who mingled in the same private clubs, attended the same churches, and lived in neighborhoods — Philadelphia's Main Line and Chestnut Hill neighborhoods ; New Jersey's Princeton ; Florida's Palm Beach ; Fairfield County, Connecticut ; Manhattan's Upper East Side ; Westchester County, New York ; and the North Shore of Long Island ; Boston's Beacon Hill ; Georgetown, Washington D. C .; and Chicago's Lake Forest are all examples.

Partially underground light rail lines such as Boston's Green Line and Philadelphia's Subway-Surface Lines are analogous to Stadtbahn lines.

American locations such as Fairfield County, Connecticut, Litchfield County, Connecticut, Westchester County, New York, Long Island's Gold Coast, the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Boston's Back Bay and Beacon Hill, Weston, MA, Newport, RI, Grosse Pointe, MI, and Philadelphia's Main Line are associated with old money.

If the highest population estimates are correct, Cahokia was larger than any subsequent city in the United States until the 1780s, when Philadelphia's population grew beyond 40, 000.

The Delaware Valley is home to extensive populations of African Americans ( over 40 % of Philadelphia's residents are black ), Europeans ( the majority of residents are white European of German, Irish, Italian and Polish descent ), Asians such as Chinese, Indian, Korean and Vietnamese, Arabs and Turks, Indians and Pakistanis, Israelis ( while American Jews form a significant ethno-religious community ), Hispanics.

The Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River were once the source of Philadelphia's water supply and are now an attraction in Fairmount Park.

Its green grasses and dozens of benches are popular lunch-time destinations for residents and workers in Philadelphia's Center City neighborhood, while its lion and goat statues are popular gathering spots for small children and their parents.

Deprived of most of its headliners, the tour limps on until finally, all the fans and most of the bands are killed in the destruction of the Tour venue in Asbury Park, New Jersey -- what is seen is the implosion of Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium.

Its borders are 53rd Street at Jefferson to the south, Philadelphia's Fairmount Park to the east, City Avenue ( commonly referred to as " City Line ") to the north and the Amtrak Main Line tracks to the west.

On other systems, such as Philadelphia's SEPTA, they are distinguished by lights on the train, and stations skipped by half the trains are designated " A " and " B " stations depending on which trains stop there.

Most of South Philadelphia's communities are largely Italian American.

Residents are with the School District of Philadelphia's South District.

West Philadelphia's streets are laid out in a modified " grid " pattern.

WTVE's studio and primary analogue transmitter are located in Reading ; this analogue signal barely reaches Philadelphia's suburbs and Lebanon, in the eastern part of the Harrisburg market.

The Subway – Surface Trolley Lines or Green Lines are five SEPTA trolley lines that operate on street-level tracks in West Philadelphia and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and in a shared subway with rapid transit trains in Philadelphia's Center City.

A major Heritage Center has been added on-site to provide a permanent venue where The Union League of Philadelphia's extensive Civil War-related archives and collections are stored and displayed / viewed by members and visiting scholars.

The majority of North Philadelphia's residents are African Americans and Hispanic Americans.

* Malta Boat Club, a rowing club located on Philadelphia's Boathouse Row

" The Main Building is visited by more than 800, 000 people annually, and is located at the west end of Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Since the 1950s, most of Philadelphia's major television and FM radio stations have located their transmission towers in Roxborough because of its hilly terrain and high elevation.

The University's campus, located in Center City Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts cultural district, includes 10 buildings with more than.

File: William_rush. jpg | The headstone of William Rush located in West Philadelphia's Woodlands Cemetery.

Lafayette Hill is located just west of Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill neighborhood, and south of Plymouth Meeting.

Formally called " the Wigwam ", this immense edifice was located on Girard Avenue between 19th and 20th Streets, across from Philadelphia's Girard College.

For decades 8th and Market was Philadelphia's retail hub, with major department stores Strawbridge's, Gimbels and Lit Brothers located at that corner, all with direct entrances to the subway.

The Liacouras Center is located less than two miles ( 3 km ) north of Philadelphia's City Hall, and is part a four-building, $ 107 million complex.

Symbolically, the synod gave the diocese a baptismal font with the consecration of the new Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral located in Philadelphia's " University City " section ( near the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University ).

While Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh approved the pacts swiftly, due to plans already being in place at the time of legislative approval, debate within Philadelphia's city leadership carried on as Pittsburgh opened their stadiums ( PNC Park for the Pirates and Heinz Field for the Steelers ) in 2001.

The act passed on February 2, making Philadelphia's borders coterminous with Philadelphia County, and incorporating various districts, boroughs, townships, and any other unincorporated communities within the county.

The game was played at Philadelphia's Shibe Park, which was within the protected territory of the Frankford Yellow Jackets, who were playing a league game just a few miles away at Legion Field.

In 1963, Marlin Taylor created a custom-designed beautiful music format at Philadelphia's WDVR-FM, and within four months, WDVR became the # 1 rated FM station in the Philadelphia market, becoming not only one of the first big successes in FM broadcasting but instrumental in establishing the viability of the FM band.

In 1918, leaders within the American Jewish community, consisting of Jewish, Zionist, and immigrant community organizations, convened the first American Jewish Congress ( AJCongress ) in Philadelphia's historic Independence Hall.

The city has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city, and Philadelphia's Fairmount Park is the largest landscaped urban park in the world.

Philadelphia's largest park, Fairmount Park, encompasses of this parkland and includes 63 neighborhood and regional parks.

A large crowd of fans paid tribute to him, passing by his coffin in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.

Today, the system includes the Centennial Arboretum, Philadelphia's Horticulture Center, Fairmount Water Works, Memorial Hall, home to the Please Touch Museum, the Belmont Plateau, Japanese House and Garden, Bartram's Garden ( America ’ s oldest living botanical garden ), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Boathouse Row, Azalea Garden, recreation centers, reservoirs, and countless statues ( as well as other pieces of art ) as determined by the park.

While he was teaching, he moonlighted at the old WDAS studios on Edgley Drive in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, working for free and later, for minimum wage.

* Fairmount Park Association, Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze and Stone, Walker Publishing Co., Inc, NY.

Arnold and his wife Terry helped pioneer many of the early Philadelphia progressive-rock groups such as The Nazz, American Dream, Stone Dawn, Woody's Truck Stop, Mandrake Memorial, Elizabeth, and The Legions, Stone Dawn, Almond Joy, The Driftwoods, by hosting the first " Be-IN " at Belmont Plateau in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.

A handful of European settlers farmed the area in the 17th century, 18th century and early 19th century, when Fairmount was still outside Philadelphia's city limits.

Where Cobbs Creek borders Philadelphia, it is surrounded by Cobbs Creek Park ; a major section of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park System, the largest urban park in the country.

His 1745 home, the Belmont Mansion, still stands in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.

The Fairmount Water Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was Philadelphia's second municipal waterworks.