Reading is a very old city in Pennsylvania. It used to be a profitable, industrious city with one of the largest railway systems in the county (where the familiar Reading Railroad from the Monopoly board comes from), but has declined dramatically in recent years. It has a good location, about an hour away from Philadelphia, which attracts many immigrants and citizens from New York. Recent efforts have been to try and revitalize the city's dwindling down-town area with such projects as the recently created Goggle Works Center for the Arts and a future Imax theater. http://wikitravel.org/en/Reading (Pennsylvania)