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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]
Canton Avenue is a street in Pittsburgh's Beechview neighborhood which is the steepest officially recorded public street in the United States. [1] [2] [3] Canton Avenue is 630 ft (190 m) long (the hill is about 213 feet long) and is claimed to include a 37% grade 21 feet (6.4 m) long. [4] [5] [6] The Guinness Book of World Records uses a 10m ...
For a navigable map of Pittsburgh's neighborhoods, see list of Pittsburgh neighborhoods. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
The Pittsburgh Wayfinder System is a series of directional and destination signs installed throughout the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania meant to guide travelers to popular destinations and services. The system is designed for easy mapping of neighborhood-to-neighborhood routes with the intent of creating a coherent pattern of travel in the city.
In the early 19th century, the Strip District was home to many mills and factories as its location along the Allegheny River made for easy transportation of goods and shipping of raw materials. It was the home of the Fort Pitt Foundry , source of large cannons before and during the American Civil War , including a 20-inch (510 mm) bore Rodman ...
Also, parking in the South Side is among the tightest in the city, as narrow streets and high density of buildings leave little empty street space. Nuisance crime has also been a growing issue, but in mid-2018, city leaders announced that crime in the South Side bar district dropped by roughly 30 percent from the previous year, possibly because ...
Purple Belt (11th Street) Eastern terminus of concurrency with Purple Belt: 15th Street to I-279: 26th Street - East Busway: Bloomfield Bridge / Main Street to PA 380 (Bigelow Boulevard) PA 380 (Baum Boulevard) / Aiken Avenue: Eastern terminus of Liberty Avenue: 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
The Ellis School and the Winchester Thurston School are both part of the Pittsburgh Consortium of Independent Schools (PCIS) which is a non-profit organization consisting of these and eleven other independent schools in the area. [8] Shady Side Academy, though founded in the neighborhood in 1883, is no longer located in the Shadyside neighborhood.