[PRCo] Re: Location?

Joshua Dunfield Joshua_Dunfield at mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Sat Feb 28 13:24:11 EST 2004


> Remember now, Mark, there are some neighborhoods that you really don't want
> to enter without the 82nd Airborne Division in your car for protection.

So take the bus; it probably follows the trolley route, anyway.

>  A
> lot of places that I used to be taken as a boy that were quite OK then but
> are not today ... Braddock, Rankin, North Braddock, Wilkinsburg, Homewood,
> Brushton, parts of East Liberty, even parts of the North Side.  Basically,
> follow the Pennsylvania Railroad to the east ... those were the older and
> now decaying neighborhoods.

*shrug*  Wilkinsburg isn't that bad.  I've never walked around Homewood
proper; the area around the Homewood busway station is okay, but I
believe that's actually Point Breeze.

-j.



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