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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> <BR> <BR> <BR>Where's Soho and Glenwood?? What about Ingram and Temperencesville?? <BR> <BR>Also Allentown, Atwood, Polish Hill and Friendship areas??<BR> <BR>And what happened to Birmingham? Also Woods run? And Nunnery Hill?<BR> <BR>We use to call the area around Forbes and Braddock: 'Frick Park'.<BR> <BR>Wonder how much the city paid a well connected consultant to come up with this map. Should have consulted a PRC system map.<BR> <BR><br> <BR><div>> From: hrbran@cavtel.net<br>> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 12:58:24 -0400<br>> To: pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] FYI-Pittsburgh Neighborhood Map<br>> <br>> Correct on "Brushton" as being missing in action.<br>> <br>> The attached pdf is the official City of Pittsburgh neighborhood map.<br>> <br>> <br>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider@comcast.net>wrote:<br>> <br>> ><br>> > I have a problem with the south side. Mt. Oliver is an independent<br>> > borough but the map shows it as part of the city. It is that area<br>> > surrounded by Knoxville, Carrick, Beltzhoover (not named), Arlington,<br>> > Allentown, and the slopes.<br>> ><br>> > East End? The Lower Hill District used to be considered separate from<br>> > the Hill District. Highland Park is a city park. Should that not be<br>> > considered Highland. Brushton is missing.<br>> ><br>> > I have a feeling in my gut that neighborhoods are being moved because we<br>> > have no memory of where they were. Have we forgotten places like Glenwood?<br>> > Do Lincoln or Larimer actually touch Shadyside? Should not Homewood<br>> > touch S'Liberty?<br>> ><br>> > In the northside? As we redeveloped it, we put new names on an old city.<br>> > The entire north side was the City of Allegheny until the City of<br>> > Pittsburgh orchestrated a takeover in nineteen aught and seven. Now we<br>> > have created areas called West Allegheny, Allegheny Center and East<br>> > Allegheny and North Shore? Huh? I though they were just the Northside?<br>> > And how did Observatory Hill get moved all the way out to the city<br>> > boundary? Seems to me the old Observatory run by Mr. Brashaer at the<br>> > college was in the Fineview District????? That area they are calling<br>> > Observatory Hill includes what we would have called Riverview Park and even<br>> > far beyond that.<br>> ><br>> > But we have the same problem in a lot of cities. Here in Lancaster<br>> > County there were three villages on route 23 northeast of Lancaster:<br>> > Leacock, Leola and Bareville in order as you go northeast. Today no one<br>> > seems to know where they were and we have moved them and overlapped them<br>> > and in some cases you will find businesses in one village named after a<br>> > town five miles away. We don't remember.<br>> ><br>> > Try this map<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Pittsburgh_Pennsylvania_neighborhoods_fade.svg<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > On May 28, 2013, at 10:52 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:<br>> ><br>> > > Can anyone remember the East End neighborhood which is not listed on this<br>> > > map?<br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Herb Brannon <hrbran@cavtel.net><br>> > wrote:<br>> > ><br>> > >> The last post made mention of a district of Pittsburgh called the Flats,<br>> > >> actually named South Side Flats. This is in opposition to another<br>> > >> neighborhood named South Side Slopes.<br>> > >><br>> > >> I have attached a map of Pittsburgh neighborhoods since some areas now<br>> > >> have new names and some areas which never had names now do have names.<br>> > >><br>> > >> --<br>> > >> Herb Brannon<br>> > >> Back In The Burgh !<br>> > >> GO PENS !<br>> > >><br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > > --<br>> > > Herb Brannon<br>> > > Back In The Burgh !<br>> > > GO PENS !<br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > > -------------- next part --------------<br>> > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> > > URL:<br>> > http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20130528/ae5968b0/attachment.html<br>> > > _______________________________________________<br>> > > Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<br>> > > Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>> > > https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > -------------- next part --------------<br>> > An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> > URL:<br>> > http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20130529/30f0391f/attachment.html<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<br>> > Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>> > https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<br>> ><br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Herb Brannon<br>> Back In The Burgh !<br>> GO PENS !<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20130529/e971115f/attachment.html <br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> A non-text attachment was scrubbed...<br>> Name: neighborhoodslab.pdf<br>> Type: application/pdf<br>> Size: 51282 bytes<br>> Desc: not available<br>> Url : http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20130529/e971115f/attachment.pdf <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<br>> Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>> https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<br></div> </div>
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