The section can be described as extending from the western side of the Schuylkill River to the city line, with the SEPTA.

The housing stock is diverse with ornate Queen Anne-style twin mansions in the neighborhoods bordering Cedar Park, plainer and simpler styles of twins predominating closer to the airport, and newer rowhouses, many with porches, filling in many neighborhoods.

[9] The township of Kingsessing was created not long after control of the colony was transferred to William Penn.

For the 18th and most of the 19th centuries Kingessing was a rural township with farms, orchards and market gardens.

By the middle of the 19th century, Kingessing was a major center for the nursery and florist gardens in Philadelphia County.

The origins of Kingsessing are found in the village of the same name that roughly occupied the same site as the current neighborhood.

The majority of the immigrants are mainly Liberian refugees from the Gio, Mano, Mandingo, Krahn, Grebo, and Kru ethnic groups, along with immigrants from Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Côte d'Ivoire.

[11] A number of SEPTA Subway-Surface Trolley Lines traverse the area along Chester, Woodland, and Elmwood Avenues, providing easy access to Center City through the 40th Street Portal.