Marconi Plaza is an urban park square located in South Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The plaza was named to recognize the 20th-century cultural identity in Philadelphia of the surrounding Italian American enclave neighborhood and became the designation location of the annual Columbus Day Parade.
Marconi Plaza has two main halves, east and west, which are divided in the middle by Broad Street. It is located at the most southern end of the city and within the northern border of the Sports Complex Special Services District and the southern border of Lower Moyamensing. The park plaza is accessible via the Oregon Avenue station of the Broad Street subway.
Boundaries of the Marconi Plaza neighborhood:
Western half
Eastern half
Broad Street to 20th St. from Oregon Avenue to Packer Avenue including Moyamensing Blvd
Broad Street to 8th St. from Oregon Avenue to Packer Avenue
The urban park plaza itself, from which the neighborhood derives its name (Marconi East and "Marco" Marconi West), is a 19-acre (77,000 m2) rectangular park. The Roman-styled plaza is divided in the center by Broad Street and is bordered by 13th Street, 15th Street, Bigler Street, and Oregon Avenue.
MarconiPlaza is an urban park square located in South Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The plaza was named to recognize the 20th-century...
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi FRSA (Italian: [ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and...
South Broad Street (PA 611) at the intersection of Oregon Avenue in the MarconiPlaza neighborhood of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is the last stop...
north to Wharton St. in the south. Little Saigon Lower Moyamensing MarconiPlaza Moyamensing Packer Park Passyunk Square: Washington Ave. to Tasker St...
Bella Vista Central South Philadelphia Girard Estate Italian Market MarconiPlaza Packer Park Passyunk West St. Richard Whitman Overbrook/West Philadelphia...
Greenwich Hawthorne Italian Market Little Saigon Lower Moyamensing MarconiPlaza Moyamensing Newbold Packer Park Passyunk Square Pennsport Point Breeze...
west. It includes the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Packer Park and MarconiPlaza that are represented on the board by four neighborhood districts. The...
apartments of this development and the bus station area is known as MarconiPlaza, while the upper level apartments are known as the Kings Tower. The...
Street, just west of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex, south of MarconiPlaza, north of FDR Park, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and Philadelphia Naval...
population, 57.8% were born in Asia. The median household income is $63,497. MarconiPlaza Mifflin Square Park, established in the 1890s South Philly High Park...
Manito Park and Botanical Gardens, Spokane, Washington MarconiPlaza (originally Oregon Plaza) Marquette Park, Chicago, Illinois Memorial Park (Jacksonville)...
as League Island Park, these grounds are now occupied by FDR Park, MarconiPlaza, Packer Park Residential Neighborhood, the three stadiums of Philadelphia's...
Commission issued an order to remove a statue of Christopher Columbus from MarconiPlaza and to place it in temporary storage. This followed an endorsement of...
including Bella Vista, Central South Philadelphia, Girard Estates, MarconiPlaza, Packer Park, and the Philadelphia Italian Market area. In Northeast...
Avenue, South to Oregon Avenue, West to Broad Street, East to 7th Street MarconiPlaza Moyamensing Newbold Packer Park Passyunk Square: Washington Ave. to...
Arboretum Bartram's Garden Centennial Arboretum The Horticulture Center MarconiPlaza Morris Arboretum Clark Park Fairmount Park Franklin Square Logan Circle...
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literally translates as "place to drink". MarconiPlaza in honor of the Nobel Prize Laureate Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio. Mount Airy Named...
confrontations that had occurred near the statue of Christopher Columbus in MarconiPlaza. No consensus was reached. In March 2021, Brady reportedly asked Court...
interchange, PA 611 narrows to a four-lane divided road and passes through MarconiPlaza before intersecting Oregon Avenue and Moyamensing Avenue. The route...
Woods North 33 † Penn Park University City 24 Fisher Park North 23 MarconiPlaza South 23 † Glen Foerd on the Delaware Northeast 18 Stenton Park North...
Delaware Rodney Square Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Veterans Stadium MarconiPlaza Rittenhouse Square Liberty Bell City Hall Philadelphia Museum of Art...
interviewed George Bochetto, an attorney saving the Columbus Statue in MarconiPlaza, Philadelphia, US. Bochetto, a former Pennsylvania State Boxing Commissioner...
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