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Broad Street is one of the main arteries of the streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is Pennsylvania Route 611 for most of its length. The north-south street is between 13 and 15. Street the street, instead of 14. Street. He stopped in the block containing the City Hall of Philadelphia, which is where Broad and Market Street from the intersection of the center of downtown, General meets market as a path in the center the City Hall block.

The line of Broad Street, which serves about 110,000 drivers per day in 2007, corresponding in general, for most of its length. Distinguished by the orange car, the meter starts at the Rock and Fernando district stretches through the city center to the extreme south of Philadelphia on Pattison Avenue.

Broad Street is home to many cultural monuments Philadelphia. Between Spruce Street and Market Street, which is called the Avenue of the Arts and home to art galleries, the Academy of Music and the Kimmel Center.

The Philadelphia Sports Complex, near the south end in general in the south of Philadelphia, is home to Citizens Bank Park, Lincoln Financial Field, the Wachovia Spectrum and Wachovia Center. Jfk Stadium Stadium and Veterans are former athletes of the region. Accordingly, the Philadelphia Flyers are nicknamed the "Broad Street has caused." Broad Street often the main route for the parade of Philadelphia sports championship parade, which was the Philadelphia Phillies' 2008 World Series victory, nearly 2 million people lined Broad Street to watch the parade.

South and sports exchanges with Schuylkill Expressway (Interstate 76) and Interstate 95, Broad Street has its terminus in South Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.

The offices of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, newspapers are in Broad Street, north of City Hall. In the north of Philadelphia, to reduce the large campus of Temple University.

A street in the town of Broad Street is the financial year end of 10 miles (16 km), Broad Street Run. In addition, the section of Broad Street near Oregon Avenue (Marconi Plaza) for the room in the south and downtown Philadelphia, is the local traditional Mummers Parade on January 1.

Alias

* "Avenue of the Arts" (from Locust Street to Washington Avenue). This section of the Broad Street theaters and concert halls, including the Academy of Music, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Merriam Theater, Wilma Theater, University of the Arts Gershman Hall, Robert and Suzanne Theater. The street is "AA" lights all along the way, which is the abbreviation of the Avenue of the Arts.

* Avenue of the States: From the avenue of Oregon Washington Avenue. This section of Broad Street has all the flags of 50 states of the self.

* CA Tindley Boulevard: from South Street to Washington Avenue. It was dedicated to the late Charles A. Tindley, the father of gospel music. Tindley Temple United Methodist Church has its home at the corner of Broad and Fitzwater.

* Georgia Woods Boulevard: Norris Street around Cumberland Street.

Major intersections

* Pennsylvania Route 309
Roosevelt Boulevard
* Vine Street Expressway
* Market Street
* South Street
* Schuylkill Expressway
* 95