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The Philadelphia Badlands is a section of North Philadelphia and Lower Northeast Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is known for an abundance of open-air recreational drug markets and drug-related violence.[1] It has amorphous and somewhat disputed boundaries, but is generally agreed to include the 25th police district.[2]
It is widely typically defined as encompassing the area between Kensington Avenue to the east and Broad Street to the west, and between Hunting Park Avenue to the north and York Street to the south, mostly coinciding with the Fairfield, Glenwood, Hunting Park, Hartranft, Harrowgate, Kensington, North Central, Stanton, and West Kensington sections of Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest city as of 2020.
- ^ Volk, Steve (May 24, 2006). "Trouble Spots: Third and Indiana". Philadelphia Weekly. Archived from the original on September 11, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2009.
- ^ Martinez, Vanessa. "Child Photographers Find Good in the Badlands". Philadelphia Inquirer. August 13, 2010. Retrieved on August 17, 2010.