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More than 130 firefighters responded to an apartment building fire in the Chinatown neighborhood that displaced 70 people and injured six. City officials ignored neighbors' warnings in Chinatown.
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According to the article, the Chinatown was primarily centered on Second Avenue with merchant names such as "Wing Hong Chinese Co., 519 Second Ave" and "Quong Chong Shing, 511 Second Ave", all of whom have been driven out when the Boulevard of the Allies was built forcing demolition of all buildings on Second Avenue, sometime by the 1950s.
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By the 1950s, the Chinese community had exited the neighborhood, leaving this Chinatown extinct today. Pittsburgh, with Carnegie Mellon University, has an Asian community and has remnants of the historic Chinatown exist on a strip with several restaurants and a Chinese pagoda-styled arch.
Cities considered to have significant Chinese-American populations are large U.S. cities or municipalities with a critical mass of at least 1% of the total urban population; medium-sized cities with a critical mass of at least 1% of their total population; and small cities with a critical mass of at least 10% of the total population.
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[10] [8] On the night of June 22, protestors marching on the Parkway East freeway slowed traffic for miles; [28] subsequent protests took place near PNC Park on Pittsburgh's North Shore [29] and in Pittsburgh's South Side neighborhood. [30] [31] A visiting for Rose was held on June 24, [32] and his funeral held at the Woodland Hills Middle ...