Long before Upper Darby became a second center of Greek life in the Philadelphia region, there was a smaller Greek quarter in Center City.
It was not large. It did not have the scale of New York’s Lower East Side or Chicago’s Greektown. In Philadelphia, the first Greek neighborhood took shape in a few blocks around Locust and 10th Streets, close to churches, boarding houses, restaurants, fruit shops, factories, and Greek-owned storefronts.
Most of that world is gone now. The streets remain, but the neighborhood has been changed almost beyond recognition by hospitals, redevelopment, and the steady remaking of Center City…