Best of Philly

2013 Park

Sister Cities

Water geysers! Green space! A cafe! The boat pond! Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron summed up this new park perfectly when she wrote: The transformation of this tiny shard of land amounts to a small miracle. … Every Philadelphia neighborhood should have a park as good as Sister Cities.

18th Street and the Ben Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103; centercityphila.org/life/sister_cities.php