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Air Force jet crashed into a row of homes on the east end of the complex, on
Beachhead Road near Lagoon Road. This caused the PHA to tear down several of the homes on that street. In 1953, more homes were torn down to make way for the construction of a northern extension of the main north/south runway of North Philadelphia (now Northeast) airport. In 1960, PHA gave an order to close the complex. In 1962, dismantling began and the site was completely cleared to make way for the Northeast Philadelphia Industrial Park.
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Northeast Village can be found today by driving on Norcom Road about 1500 feet above Red Lion Road; the partially paved 5-6' width that has not grown over with vegetation are the remains of Dune Rd (looking north to south) and Echelon Rd (looking east to west) (per research
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Construction on the complex was begun in 1946 and was opened in
January 1947. The Benjamin Crispin (Northeast Village) Elementary School Annex was located at Midday and Clipper Roads. In 1949, the U.S. Government turned the property over to the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA). In 1950, a U.S.
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Village was indeed a “village” unto itself, with its own stores, fire house, elementary school, and a network of some five miles of winding roads. The streets – with names like Atoll Road and Lagoon Road – were named for South Pacific locations that were familiar to many of the veteran
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Fire Alarm Box
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