| Frankford | |
| Settlement Type: | Neighborhood of Baltimore |
| Image Alt: | Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) bus passes through intersection of Frankford Avenue and Sinclair Lane in Frankford, Baltimore |
| Pushpin Map: | United States Baltimore#Maryland#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Frankford |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Baltimore##Location within Maryland##Location within the United States |
| Pushpin Relief: | yes |
| Coordinates: | 39.3283°N -76.5458°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | City |
| Subdivision Name2: | Baltimore |
| Subdivision Type3: | City Council |
| Subdivision Name3: | District 2 |
| Unit Pref: | US |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 2.1216 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 17966 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 8468 |
| Population Note: | [1] [2] |
| Timezone1: | Eastern |
| Utc Offset1: | −5 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP Codes |
| Postal Code: | 21206 |
| Area Code Type: | Area Codes |
| Area Code: | 410, 443, 667 |
Frankford is a neighborhood in northeast Baltimore. Frankford is the most populous of the city's designated neighborhoods, with over 17,000 residents.[3]
Frankford is bounded by Belair Road, White Avenue, and Hazelwood Avenue to the north; Moravia Park Drive and I-895 to the south; the eastern city limits, Whitby Road, Arizona Avenue, Moores Run Drive, and Moores Run to the east; and Seidel Avenue and Bowleys Lane to the west. Adjacent neighborhoods are Glenham-Belford (north), Cedmont (northeast), Cedonia (east), Pulaski Industrial Area (south), Armistead Gardens (southwest), Orchard Ridge (southwest), Lower Herring Run Park (southwest), Parkside (west), Belair-Edison (west), Arcadia (northwest), Wilson Heights (northwest), and Waltherson (northwest).[4] The unincorporated communities of Overlea and Rosedale in Baltimore County are also adjacent to Frankford to the east.[5]
During the 19th century, the area around Belair Road and Moravia Road was a suburban neighborhood known as Gardenville which was inhabited by first- and second-generation Polish and Italian Americans. The neighborhood's housing stock differed from those south of it, consisting of single-family homes rather than rowhouses which were prevalent throughout the core of the Baltimore City.[6] The Gardenville name is still used for some of the neighborhood's place names, for example, Gardenville Park and Ride is a connecting bus stop on Belair Road served by the Maryland Transit Administration.[7]
Today, Frankford has densified and some of what were once single-family houses have now been converted into multi-family units. The area remains predominantly residential with Belair Road along its edge serving as a retail corridor for the neighborhoods which converge along it.[8]