It is located east of Logan and Hunting Park, west of Lawncrest and Juniata, south of Olney, and north of Fairhill and Harrowgate.

A local historian, Edna Walmsley Hookway, described what the scene would have looked like in 1891:[3] Across from the station, on Wyoming Avenue, stood the Rau mansion built in 1888.

On old Second Street Pike, now named Rising Sun Avenue, and Fisher's Lane stood the Feltonville School, having twelve grades, all taught by one teacher.

It ran north and south, turned westward at what is now the Roosevelt Boulevard, bounding the twenty-eight-acre farm of Mr. John Hoffner.

A newly formed real estate company named "Wyoming Land and Improvement Association," and headed by Mr. Eckersley, employed Mr. John Walmsley to divide the fields into building lots.

[citation needed] Although a large portion of Feltonville's population is made up of middle class Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and African Americans.