Port Richmond, Philadelphia

Port Richmond
Neighborhood
Richmond Street, one of the area's main thoroughfares (2005).
Port Richmond
Coordinates: 39°58′34″N 75°06′00″W / 39.976°N 75.100°W / 39.976; -75.100
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Philadelphia
City	Philadelphia
Area code(s)	215, 267 and 445

Port Richmond is a neighborhood in the River Wards section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is notable for its extremely large Polish immigrant and Polish American community, and it has been known as the Little Poland of Philadelphia.^[1] The neighborhood is also home to a large Irish American community and sizable German, Lithuanian, Italian, and Puerto Rican communities, along with a historic Jewish community, as represented in the various churches and organizations. In more recent years, a sizable Albanian community has moved in. The Richmond Zip Code is 19134. A small portion of the neighborhood, north of Castor Avenue, falls into the 19137 ZIP code.

The neighborhood is bounded by the Frankford Creek to the northeast, Lehigh Avenue to the southwest, the Delaware River to the east, and Kensington and Allegheny Avenues to the northwest.

While some have referred to Port Richmond as Richmond, there is an area named Richmond, not colloquially used often, that refers to the most northeastern section of the neighborhood (the area north of Allegheny Avenue up to Frankford Creek). Adjacent neighborhoods are Bridesburg to the northeast, Juniata to the north, Harrowgate to the northwest and Kensington to the south.