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Washington Square West (or Wash West) is a neighborhood in downtown, or Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The neighborhood roughly corresponds to the area between 6th and 10th Streets and between Walnut and South Streets, bordering on the Independence Mall tourist area directly northeast, Market East to the northwest, Old City and Society Hill to the East, Bella Vista directly south, Hawthorne to the southwest, and mid-town Philadelphia and Rittenhouse Square to the west. Many realtors and civic groups, in an attempt to hype up the area as a desirable trendy neighborhood designate the western border of the neighborhood as Broad Street, 4 blocks from the more accurate boundary of 10th Street. The area take its name from Washington Square, a historic urban park in the northeastern corner of the neighborhood.
Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Square_West
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