Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- A World Series showdown and a National Football League meeting featuring rivals from Philadelphia and New York, staged on opposite sides of the street, is just the start of what’s facing the City of Brotherly Love this weekend.

Add two rock concerts, two hockey matches and a basketball game in the same sports complex, then throw in a possible transit-workers strike, and things could get really interesting at the corner of Broad Street and Pattison Avenue.

The Philadelphia Eagles host the New York Giants at 1 p.m. on Nov. 1 in a battle of NFL division foes. Seven hours later, the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies begin Game 4 of the World Series, capping a sports tale of two cities.

The day “will be a celebration of all things Philadelphia,” said Steven Binswanger, 26, a graduate student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, who plans to attend both the Eagles game and the fourth game of the World Series. “I expect to eat a decent amount of cheesesteaks, drink a few Yuenglings and boo the Giants and Yankees.”

The Phillies play at Citizens Bank Park, the Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field. Those venues stand astride the Spectrum, a dying hockey and basketball venue where Pearl Jam is playing gigs tonight and tomorrow night before the arena is torn down.

Just next door is the Wachovia Center, where the city’s basketball and hockey teams now play. Altogether, events at the South Philadelphia sites likely will attract some 300,000 spectators over four days.

Lincoln Financial Field

The biggest single crowd will be for the Eagles-Giants game at 67,594-seat Lincoln Financial Field. The game’s start was moved up three hours to avoid a conflict with the fourth game of the World Series, scheduled for 8:20 p.m. at 43,500-seat Citizens Bank Park across Pattison Avenue.

“Many of the Eagles fans have tickets to the World Series,” said Laura Tortella, director of operations for Total Traffic Network, a division of Clear Channel Communications Inc. “The ones who don’t will stay in the parking lots with their TVs.”

The Phillies are seeking their second consecutive championship. Last year’s World Series Most Valuable Player, Cole Hamels, is scheduled to start Saturday’s game. The Eagles have won four of six games so far this season, with the Giants 5-2 and trying to snap a two-game losing streak.

Events Complex

Most of the city’s major entertainment and sports events are held at the complex. The baseball stadium, known locally as “the Bank,” is across the street from the Eagles’ home, known as “the Linc.” To the west is the 22,000-seat Wachovia Center, which hosts Flyers National Hockey League games and 76ers National Basketball Association games and which sits just south of the 18,000-seat Spectrum.

The activity begins tonight when the 76ers host the Milwaukee Bucks in their home opener at the Wachovia Center while Pearl Jam, known for songs such as “Dissident” and “Yellow Ledbetter,” plays the third of four concerts at the Spectrum. The concerts are to be the last events at the 42-year- old arena.

Tomorrow, the Flyers play the Carolina Hurricanes at 1 p.m., about seven hours before the Phillies take the field for the third game of the World Series and Pearl Jam closes out the Spectrum.

Rain Forecast

The next day, it’s a football-and-baseball battle of teams separated by 100 miles of the New Jersey Turnpike. There is a chance of rain for both tomorrow and the next day, with high temperatures in the 60s and 70s Fahrenheit (16 and 21 degrees Celsius) in most of the northeastern U.S., according to private forecaster AccuWeather.com.

“Sunday should be quite the crowd because the Eagles tend to get near 60,000,” and the game is expected to end about 4 p.m., Lieutenant Frank Vanore, a spokesman for the Philadelphia Police Department, said in a telephone interview. “The Phillies gates open at 5:20 p.m., and most of those people won’t be out of there by then. The traffic plan is going to be real important.”

Mike Goldberg, 44, an investment adviser for BBR Partners and an Eagles season ticket holder from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has tickets for both games and plans to spend the entire day in the parking lots outside the stadiums.

‘A Raucous Crowd’

“It’s going to be a raucous crowd,” said Goldberg, who was a bat boy for the Phillies in 1983, when the team won the National League pennant before losing to the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. “We did the same thing last year, when the Eagles played and then the Phillies played Tampa. The four hours between games went like lightning.”

The following night, the Flyers are hosting the Tampa Bay Lightning, about three hours before the fifth game of the World Series. The Phillies are encouraging fans to carpool or take public transportation and not come to the complex if they don’t have tickets.

Workers for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority are threatening a strike that could shut down the sixth-largest U.S. city’s transit system. Transport Workers Union Local 234, which represents about 5,500 bus, subway and trolley workers, voted Oct. 25 to walk off the job if negotiations don’t produce a new contract.

The union has postponed contract talks until 5:30 p.m. tonight and plans to walk out at midnight if an agreement isn’t reached, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing Robert Wolper, a spokesman for Local 234. The two sides have been involved in negotiations throughout the week.

Transit System

“We’re hoping that Septa will be with us at that point, which will be a big relief,” Vanore said. “Any unforeseen stoppage would be problematic.”

Septa’s buses, subways and trolleys carry about 500,000 riders on an average weekday in the city of 1.45 million people. About 9,400 people on average used Septa’s Broad Street Line, which carries passengers between Center City and the sports complex, to travel to and from the World Series games in Philadelphia last year, Septa spokesman Andrew Busch said. About 8,000 use the subway after Eagles games, he said.

“It will shut down the Broad Street Line and that’s what takes you right down to the ballpark,” Tortella said of the possible strike. “People coming from New York on the train still need to get to the ballpark and that could be a problem, so they would have to drive or take a cab.”

The city expects about 1,000 additional cars to come into South Philadelphia if there is a transit strike, and has told police officers to be prepared for canceled vacations in case additional personnel are needed, said Everett Gillison, deputy mayor for public safety.

“If it wasn’t for the possibility of a strike, this would just be another event,” Gillison said in a telephone interview. “We do these events in this area pretty easily.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Chris Dolmetsch in New York at cdolmetsch@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: October 30, 2009 13:32 EDT