Roxborough
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Roxborough is the name of a neighborhood in the northwestern part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Roxborough, known by residents as "The Boro," is located between the Schuylkill River and the Wissahickon Creek. It is bordered to the southwest, along the Schuylkill River, by the neighborhood of Manayunk. Roxborough's northeast border is Fairmount Park and the Wissahickon, to the southeast is the neighborhood of East Falls, and to the northwest is Northwestern Avenue and Montgomery County.
Roxborough is a predominantly white neighborhood of Philadelphia. Upper Roxborough and Andorra, closer to the northwest border, are generally middle class. Lower Roxborough and the Wissahickon section of the neighborhood, near East Falls, are working class. However, this economic picture is changing as gentrification occurs in Roxborough, Manayunk, and East Falls.
Most of Philadelphia's television stations have their transmission towers in Roxborough because of its hilly terrain.