The Navy Yard, formerly known as the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and Philadelphia Naval Business Center, was the first naval shipyard of the United States.
The yard grew up around facilities built in 1871 on League Island at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers.
The U.S. Navy ended most of its activities there in the 1990s, and in 2000, the city of Philadelphia took over and began to redevelop the land. Today, the Navy maintains a ghost fleet and a few engineering activities at the site, which also hosts various civilian offices and light and heavy industrial plants.
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“It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man’s parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.”
—Cleveland Amory (b. 1917)
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After the collapse of the socialist dream, I came to America.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)