Northwest Philadelphia is a section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The official boundary is Stenton Avenue and Cheltenham Avenue to the north, the Schuylkill river to the southwest, Northwest Avenue to the northwest, Roosevelt Boulevard to the south, and with the eastern border being made up of many different streets, though less defined. The area is divided by Wissahickon Creek into two subsections. To the east are Germantown, East Falls, Mount Airy (which itself is divided into east and west), Cedarbrook (though some would consider Cedarbrook to be North Philadelphia), and Chestnut Hill, and to the west are Roxborough, Andorra, and Manayunk. Some of them informally comprise smaller neighborhoods. The Philadelphia Police Department patrols two districts located within Northwest Philadelphia. The two patrol districts serving Northwest Philadelphia are the 5th and 14th districts.
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“I got my first clear view of Ktaadn, on this excursion, from a hill about two miles northwest of Bangor, whither I went for this purpose. After this I was ready to return to Massachusetts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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