Pennsport is a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Drawing of the USS Philadelphia, built in Joshua Humphreys' shipyard in Pennsport, 1799.
"The building of the Frigate Philadelphia", Plate 29 of Birch's Views of Philadelphia (1800). The man standing in the foreground may be a portrait of Humphreys
The Vare-Washington School, in the former Washington School in Dickinson Square West, serves Pennsport.
Whitman Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia
South Philadelphia, nicknamed South Philly, is the section of Philadelphia bounded by South Street to the north, the Delaware River to the east and south, and the Schuylkill River to the west. A diverse working-class community of many neighborhoods, South Philadelphia is well-known for its large Italian-American population, but it also contains large Asian American, Irish-American, African-American, and Latino populations.
South Philadelphia as seen from the One Liberty Observation Deck in May 2017
Gloria Dei Church
A factory converted into lofts in Lower Moyamensing
Row housing in South Philly, 2004