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The census tract/neighborhoods noted in the Hill District are represented on the Pittsburgh City Council by the council member for District 6 (Downtown neighborhoods). Part of the Upper Hill is also represented under District 7. The 15219 ZIP code covers all five neighborhoods, and the 15213 ZIP code covers part of Terrace Village and the Upper ...
Beltzhoover is a neighborhood in southern Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in an area known as the South Hills. The area is named for Melchior Beltzhoover who was a tradesman there in the early 19th century. [2] The community borders McKinley Park. The neighborhood lies in the 18th ward and is predominantly an African-American neighborhood. The area ...
Homewood was founded in 1832 by Judge William Wilkins. [4] The earliest black residents moved into the sparsely-populated area in the aftermath of the Civil War. [5] Homewood was annexed by the city of Pittsburgh on December 1, 1884 [4] and held in those years mainly estates for the wealthy, being the Pittsburgh residence of industrialists Andrew Carnegie and Thomas M. Carnegie until the late ...
The vast majority of properties that were sold to new owners through the city’s foreclosure spree have since been cited for new violations.
According to local data obtained through public records requests, nearly 1,500 Black people are in the county’s housing queue, compared with roughly 1,000 white people. “I don’t know what ...
This is a list of 90 neighborhoods in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Generally neighborhood development followed ward boundaries, although the City Planning Commission has defined some neighborhood areas. [1] The map of neighborhoods presented here is based on the official designations from the City of Pittsburgh. [2]
This is a list of former and current non-federal courthouses in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Each of the 67 counties in the Commonwealth has a city or borough designated as the county seat where the county government resides, including a county courthouse for the court of general jurisdiction, the Court of Common Pleas. Other courthouses are used by the three state-wide appellate courts ...
Hundreds of “hidden” racially restrictive covenants still exist in Wake County. A new project needs armchair historians to help uncover them. ‘I just cried’: When restrictions kept Black ...