Get in

Two stations on the Broad Street Subway (orange line) serve the district. The safer and more used stop is Cecil B.Moore, but the area is also accessable from the Susquehanna-Dauphin stop. All SEPTA regional rail lines stops at Temple University Station.

Temple University also offers their form of Transportaion. The Ambler Shuttle makes stops at Ambler Campus, Tyler Campus, Medical School Campus, and Main Campus. There is a separate shuttle bus that will take you to the center city campus and the podiatric medicine campus (8th and Arch). Also, Temple runs two smaller shuttles, known as the "White" and "Cherry" shuttles. These buses run different routes around main campus.

See

  • Wagner Institute
  • Founder's Garden
  • Alumni Circle
  • Temple Bell Tower
  • Ambler Campus gardens and greenhouses. Ambler campus is home to the first Horticultural School for Women. It has strong landscape design and horticulture departments.
  • The TECH Center, The nation's largest university computer lab. With an area of 75,000 sq ft Temple University's TECH Center is the nation's largest university computer lab. It offers up to 700 computers and loans out 100 wireless laptops. It has a 24 hour help desk that offer advice or students, staff and faculty. It offers many rooms that can prove to be helpful to students such as breakout rooms, specialized labs, and a faculty wing and a starbucks cafe.
  • Do

  • The IBC Fittness Center
  • The Student Pavilion
  • The Student Activity Center (SAC)
  • The Liacouras Center
  • The IBC Fittness Center is located at the corner of 15th street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, the entrace is located off of 15th street and is located across from the parking garage. The IBC is opened to all students, faculty, staff, and alumi. Those who do not carry a Temple University ID card can still get in by paying an entrance fee of 12$ for a day. The IBC offers plenty of fitness equipments such as bench presses, treadmills, let-workout machines, and many others. It also offers an indor track, an indoor racquet ball court, and offer table tennis.

    The Student Pavilion is located at 1901 N 15th street across from the Turf Complex. It is opened to all Temple University's students, faculty, and staff. Non Temple University ID holders can still get in by paying 12$ for a day pass. The Student Pavilion offers recreational sports such as basketball, vollyball, badminton, table tennis, tennis (it offers 6 outdoors Tennis Courts), in-door Golfing Range, and football. Equipment for all of the sports are offered for rental at the front office but a Temple ID card is needed to rent one. Every Friday the Pavilion also host Net night (only Badminton, Vollyball, Table Tennis, and Tennis is offered) from 7PM to 10PM, tournaments in those sports are sometimes held with prizes.

    The Student Activity Center is located at 1755 N 13th Street. It is the center for all of Temple University student organizations. It offers a food court that contains various forms of dining choices from Italian Pizza, Asian cuisine, and a Burger King. It also offers a Game Room where a Temple ID card is not necessarily needed. It offers table tennis, billiards, air hockey, fussball, and Chess. You need to pay an hourly fee in order to rent the table tennis, billiards, and air hockey equipments. The SAC also has an underground movie theater, the "Reel" Cinema and an underground night club, "The Underground."

    The Liacouras Center is located on 1776 N Broad Street. It is 10,200 seat multi purpose venue. It is home to all of the Temple Universit's baketball home games as well as many other events such as concerts, plays, famous guest speakers. The calender of events can be found on the Licacouras homepage at www.Liacourascenter.com

    Temple University also offers art and culture entertainment buy giving free Classical music concerts, art gallries, and student theather productions. The concerts are usually locatd in the Rock Hall and you can find a schedule on the Easter Boyer College of Music and Dance website. For the art galliries you can find information about them on the Tyler School of Art website.

    Buy

  • The Avenue
  • Temple Bookstore
  • The Shopes at Avenue is along the 1600 block of Broad Street. It contains various shopes such as an Footlocker, Dollar Store, and various clothing stores. It also has many eateries such as Qdoba Mexican Grill, the Noshery Sandwich place, and the popular Koja Korean Japanese restaurant. It also has the newly added Pearl theather where you could go to watch the recent cinematic releases.
  • Temple University bookstore is located in the lower level of the Howard Gitts Student Activity Center (The SAC). It offers all of the books needed by Temple University students as well as Temple University Gear. Such Gears include Hoodies, Shirts, Key Chains, Pants, and shorts. It also offers school supplies such as Pens, Pencils, Copybooks, Binders, etc, as well as snacks such as candy, soda and chips.
  • You could also hop on the Cecil B Moore orange line or the Septa C bus and head down to center city where you could shop at the Gallery Mall, Walnut Street or Philadelphia's Chinatown.
  • Eat

  • Qdoba
  • The Owl's Nest Pizza
  • The SAC
  • Ali's Middle Eastern
  • China House
  • Richie's Deli
  • Wendy's
  • There are various spots in Templetown where you could go to eat. One of them would be the food courts along 12th or along the Anderson Building. It contains many delicious eateries such as the Ali's Middle Eastern, Richie's Deli, and the Oriental Express. Another spot would be along Montgomery Street right along the SAC building. It offers Eddie's, Eppy's, and a Korean Japanese food truck. There is also a purple truck that is home to Insomnia Cookies, a late night cookie and milk delivery service for those students who are real night owls.

    Drink

  • Maxi's
  • The Cherry Pit
  • The Draughthorse
  • Sleep

  • '''Conwell Inn''', 1331 West Berks Street. It is a Three story 22 room hotel with a computer work station. Each room comes with a coffee maker and wireless high speed Internet and satellite television. It also offers continental breakfast with waffles imprinted with a big T for Temple University.
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