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South Side (or "Southside") is an area in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, located along the Monongahela River across from Downtown Pittsburgh. The South Side is officially divided into two neighborhoods, South Side Flats and South Side Slopes. Both the Flats and the Slopes are represented on Pittsburgh City Council by Bruce Kraus.
Currently, Pittsburgh, deemed the “City of Bridges”, has a number of historic bridges that cross the Monongahela River into South Side. The Monongahela Bridge (now known as the Smithfield Street Bridge) was designed in 1818 and built of wood and iron. During the Great Fire of Pittsburgh in 1845, the bridge was destroyed by fire in a swift ...
The Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire houses 24 Engine and 24 Truck on the South Side. It is located on Mary Street just off of Carson Street. The South Side Slopes area is also served by Engine Co 22 which is located in the neighborhood on Arlington Avenue adjoining South Side Park. South Side Park is a City Park with hiking trails, a small orchard ...
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 South Side was once composed of a number of smaller communities. These included Birmingham and East Birmingham, both named for the English Midlands industrial center, Birmingham; Ormsby, originally a part of East Birmingham, incorporated as a borough in 1866; South Pittsburgh, the area immediately adjacent to the Smithfield Street Bridge, and Monongahela, named for the adjacent Monongahela ...
South Twelfth and Bingham Streets South Side 1968 South Vo-Tech High School (South Side High School) 1897, 1923 Edward Stotz: East Carson and South Tenth Streets South Side 1992 Southminster Presbyterian Church (Mt. Lebanon Presbyterian Church) 1927–28 Thomas Pringle 799 Washington Road Mt. Lebanon 2007
2,500/sq mi (960/km 2) The Strip District is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a one-half square mile area of land northeast of the central business district bordered to the north by the Allegheny River and to the south by portions of the Hill District. The Strip District runs between 11th and 33rd Streets and ...
Typical steps in the South Side Pittsburgh "orphan" house with stairs-only access. Pittsburgh has nearly 800 sets of city-owned steps. Many steps parallel existing roads, but others exist on their own and are classified as city streets and are commonly referred to as "paper streets." Nearly two-thirds of the steps are in low or moderate-income ...