What do you call the area bounded by Frankford, Lehigh, Aramingo, and York?

I call it Purgatory.. I hear it's where people move while waiting to purchase a house in one of the real neighborhoods that border it, namely Fishtown and Port Richmond.

hey, wait a minute. can anyone make surveys?

i'm still going with sepviva plantation.

Kensington Manor

I can't imagine its less expensive than PR to live in. It has better access to the El (even if it is still not very good access from the far corner) and fishtown/nolibs.

crap, i got excited.

I call it, "home."

I voted Flatiron, but I consider East Kensington to be also just-as correct, since that's a term that people in say... Souf Philly can understand where it is.

Potemkin Village

Hahaha! That is where I lived while I was saving to buy my house, funny you say that!

I live one block north of York and suddenly I'm in an entirely different neighborhood.

We have Memphis Tap so .

i agree with this. other than the taproom at it's heart, it pales in comparison to SoYo.

soyo has nothing on us.

forgot about jovans

Flatiron and where I live.

When I bought a house on 2400 block of Huntingdon in '85 the neighbors told me it was Flatiron

It should obviously be called Port Fishington because Fishington is the best name ever. However, because Mr. Bailey objects, maybe we should call it Killjoypatrickton.

Port Freshington

Me too

I'm somewhat of a marketer and I think the name "Flatiron" is downright terrible.
Where do you live?
Oh me, I live in Flatiron!
Flatiron? Isn't that what you cook pancakes on?
Pancakes? We around here call em flapjacks!

A flatiron is also what some fashionable people use to straighten their hair. I used to be guilty of that until I had to keep cutting off split ends every other week.

There is also an area in manhattan that is known as flatiron. It's a nice area.

Flat Iron has a great historical context I am no Ken Milano but as it has been told to me there was a field in the area where kids would play ball with a large sign hence Flat iron and then later or perhaps before a fast pitch softball team i believe in the 20s ( feel free to correct me ) that was just the rumor as I remember it
and of course well ... Flat iron wild cats ( hahahahha)

Never heard it called Flat Iron in my life(40yrs) until i saw it on here .

I always just refer to it as "over there by Memphis Taproom" still cant quite figure what my area is (soyo west of frankford) where did the first occupants of my house mid 1800s say they lived? Lower Kensington seems to be the likeliest.

I go back and forth between 'Copacabana Beach' and 'XIV Arrondissement' (pronouncing the individual letters x, i, and v, of course).

Or 'Funkytown.'

Georgie Ulmer, in the Softball Hall of Fame, played for the Flat Iron A.C.

trouble

"Trouble with a capital "T"
And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool!"
Jesus Christ I'm old.

P in the pool?

You can call it whatever you want, but in reality it is Kensington.

I don't live in reality...all my connections there are gone.

Everyone in Fishtown is also a part of Kensington but they lie to themselves everyday about it.

Little liars.

That's not the only thing we lie about...every day.

I grew up in this area and I never heard Flatiron used. It was all Kensington, no east, west, north or south, just Kensington. If you wanted to narrow down where someone lived, you asked what parish they were in. Even people who weren't Catholic used this because it really pinpointed where you were talking about.

I agree with this, based on things my father has told me. He says that he grew up in North Philadelphia first, St. Bonaventure's parish second. No one called it Fairhill then, he says. Identifying the parish also clued you in on the ethnic inclination of the area; folks knew that St. Bonaventure's was generally German parish.

He now likes to boast that he grew up in the Badlands. He was definitely tickled (and surprised) that I decided to live where I do - that my family was now back in North Philly. FWIW.

Unfortunately, I'm afeared this is a matter that will never be settled. Now, you must excuse me while I dance.

That was in the Early 60's way before my time .

I really enjoy how everyone has channeled their inner-PhillySpeaks for this thread.

I've never heard to it referred to as Bump. It's got a bit of a ring to it though.

bumptown

Take me down to bumpy town!

Bump would have been a perfect name for the ORCA sex club.