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Originally Posted by AshbyQuin
The cheltenham boundaries are iffy and a PITA. I moved here august of 4th grade from Jersey, and we couldn’t go to Cheltenham because it was full and Myers didn’t except me because we didn’t live in the designated area. We wound up going to Myers eventually after we pulled some string.
All the children on that block attend Cheltenham Elementary but technically live in Melrose Park (Elkins Park). My address comes up as both Cheltenham or Elkins Park depending on the source but my zip is 19012.
Thank you for pointing out LaMott as well, not too many people know about it’s history and why it’s named LaMott in the first place. The schools here didn’t even teach us about LaMott, I first learned of her name in a Woman’s Studies class in college and put two and two together.
Theres also Linwood Gardens (not sure if it’s in LaMott section) and the Wyncote Towers (which also houses Drexel students) which are were middle class black families move to from Philadelphia.
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Lynnewood Gardens is about four blocks northwest of La Mott. That large garden apartment complex had been allowed to run down since it was built in the 1950s, but its current owner has poured money into it to make it sparkle. It's now an asset to the area.
Wyncote Towers occupies a slice of the relocated Cedarbrook golf course, which I believe has moved even further out since they were built. They're right behind Cedarbrook Plaza shopping center, which is about a half mile further northwest from Lynnewood Gardens and Greenleaf at Cheltenham (the de-malled Cheltenham Square Mall). Cedarbrook has likewise been de-malled. Some duplex houses went up on the sliver of land between the apartment towers and the shopping center.
I'm guessing the "iffy" boundaries you speak of are the school attendance district boundaries. The Philadelphia City-Cheltenham Township (and Philadelphia/Montgomery county) line is pretty clear.
ZIP code 19012 is the Cheltenham post office, the only part of the township where the community name on postal mail addresses is "Cheltenham." Tookany Creek* Parkway runs through the postal zone, and there's a small, 1920s business cluster on Central Avenue in it as well, a few blocks north of where the parkway and Ashbourne Road bump into each other.
*When it crosses into the city, this stream is called Tacony Creek. I've never found out what accounts for the variation in its name.
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