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Juniata | |
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 The entrance of Erie-Torresdale along Erie and Kensington Avenues in Juniata | |
  Juniata | |
| Coordinates:40°00′29″N75°06′29″W / 40.008°N 75.108°W /40.008; -75.108 | |
| Country |  United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Philadelphia County |
| City | Philadelphia |
| Area codes | 215, 267 and 445 |
Juniata (also known asJuniata Park) is a working class neighborhood inNortheast Philadelphia, which is a section of the city ofPhiladelphia,Pennsylvania, United States. Juniata is located south of the Juniata Golf Club in Tacony Creek Park. It is bordered to the east byFrankford, to the west byFeltonville, and to the south byHarrowgate andPort Richmond. The neighborhood is bordered by G Street to the west, Juniata Park to the north,Tacony Creek to the east, and bySEPTA rail tracks to the south. Juniata shares theZIP code of 19124 with the nearby neighborhood of Frankford.
Prior to the 1920s, Juniata Park was mostly farmland. Nicetown Lane ran generally west to east from near the line of B St. and Erie Avenue through to the present-day Pike Street and Frankford Avenue. Powder Mill Lane ran from the present-day Wingohocking Street in Frankford southwest to Nicetown Lane, near the intersection of L and Lycoming Sts. I Street, from Ramona Avenue west, was called Fisher's Lane and ran generally through the west side of theTacony Creek to the intersection of Harrowgate Lane, near the present day H Street and Ramona Avenue. Harrowgate Lane ran generally south and southeast intoHarrowgate to the present day Atlantic Street, ending at Frankford Avenue.
The neighborhood's name comes from theLenape word "onenhia", meaning "standing stone."[1][2]
The first row homes were built in Juniata Park, near Castor Avenue and Luzerne Street, in the mid-1920s. The western area of Juniata, around I and Cayuga Sts., was developed in the 1950s.
TheMarket–Frankford Line elevated train stops in the neighborhood at theErie-Torresdale Station, located at the intersection of Erie, and Torresdale Avenues.
TheJuniata News, the neighborhood's weekly community newspaper, was first published in July 1934.
Most of the neighborhood's retail and commercial establishments are situated along Castor, Hunting Park, and Erie Avenues.
In 1935, theCarl Mackley Houses (now Apartments) were constructed on the block bounded by Castor Avenue, Bristol, M, and Cayuga Streets.
The population is 13,617.[when?]
When largely built in the 1920s and 1930s, Juniata Park had a mixed population, largely German-American, with German bakeries and delicatessen/grocery stores, and Jewish grocery and drug stores. The neighborhood was known as a heavily unionized area.
Since the 1990s,[specify] Juniata transitioned from a predominantlyworking classIrish American community to a largelyworking classPuerto Rican andDominican community.[6] As of 2010, the neighborhood was 59.6% Hispanic, 18.1% White, 14.5% Black, and 7.7% Asian and other.