Entertainer Will Smith, who attended Overbrook High School, named his production company, Overbrook Entertainment, after the neighborhood.
He worked mostly on residences including homes in Overbrook, where he lived.
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The Blue Line – Library (formerly the 47L Library via Overbrook) is a line on the Pittsburgh Light Rail system that runs between Library and Downtown Pittsburgh via the Overbrook neighborhood.
In West Philadelphia's Parkside community Columbia Avenue runs between North 51st and Lindenwood Streets; between North Peach and 54th Streets in Wynnefield; North 59th and 63rd Streets in Overbrook; and its final portion between Wynnewood Road and North 64th Street also in Overbrook.
The rule was particularly advantageous for Philadelphia, which landed Overbrook High School’s Wilt Chamberlain in 1959 after his stints with the University of Kansas and the Harlem Globetrotters.
FSSCA builds relationships between the Coordinadora and international organizations such as USAID, the US Embassy, the American Jewish World Service, the Overbrook Foundation, the Shefa Fund, the Communitas Charitable Trust.
At the invitation of the Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Thomas J. Garland, Newton entered the ministry of the Episcopal Church in September 1925, and came to the Memorial Church of St. Paul, Overbrook, Philadelphia, PA, as special minister.
Along with the eponymous Bryn Mawr and Paoli Memorial hospitals, Lankenau Hospital, on Lancaster Pike (Route 30) in Wynnewood near the Overbrook border, has traditionally been affiliated with either Jefferson or Hahnemann (now Drexel) colleges of medicine and is always (with Bryn Mawr and Paoli) on the list of the nation's top community hospitals.
The name "Overbrook" is derived from Will Smith's neighborhood in West Philadelphia, Overbrook (Philadelphia).