[PRCo] FYI-Pittsburgh Neighborhood Map

[Herb Brannon]

Correct on "Brushton" as being missing in action.

The attached pdf is the official City of Pittsburgh neighborhood map.


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

>
> I have a problem with the south side.   Mt. Oliver is an independent
> borough but the map shows it as part of the city.   It is that area
> surrounded by Knoxville, Carrick, Beltzhoover (not named), Arlington,
> Allentown, and the  slopes.
>
> East End?   The Lower Hill District used to be considered separate from
> the Hill District.   Highland Park is a city park.   Should that not be
> considered Highland.   Brushton is missing.
>
> I have a feeling in my gut that neighborhoods are being moved because we
> have no memory of where they were.  Have we forgotten places like Glenwood?
>    Do Lincoln or Larimer actually touch Shadyside?   Should not Homewood
> touch S'Liberty?
>
> In the northside?   As we redeveloped it, we put new names on an old city.
>   The entire north side was the City of Allegheny until the City of
> Pittsburgh orchestrated a takeover in nineteen aught and seven.   Now we
> have created areas called West Allegheny, Allegheny Center and East
> Allegheny and North Shore?   Huh?   I though they were just the Northside?
>  And how did Observatory Hill get moved all the way out to the city
> boundary?   Seems to me the old Observatory run by Mr. Brashaer at the
> college was in the Fineview District?????    That area they are calling
> Observatory Hill includes what we would have called Riverview Park and even
> far beyond that.
>
> But we have the same problem in a lot of cities.   Here in Lancaster
> County there were three villages on route 23 northeast of Lancaster:
>  Leacock, Leola and Bareville in order as you go northeast.   Today no one
> seems to know where they were and we have moved them and overlapped them
> and in some cases you will find businesses in one village named after a
> town five miles away.   We don't remember.
>
> Try this map
>
>
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Pittsburgh_Pennsylvania_neighborhoods_fade.svg
>
>
>
> On May 28, 2013, at 10:52 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
>
> > Can anyone remember the East End neighborhood which is not listed on this
> > map?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> The last post made mention of a district of Pittsburgh called the Flats,
> >> actually named South Side Flats. This is in opposition to another
> >> neighborhood named South Side Slopes.
> >>
> >> I have attached a map of Pittsburgh neighborhoods since some areas now
> >> have new names and some areas which never had names now do have names.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Herb Brannon
> >> Back In The Burgh !
> >> GO PENS !
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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> > Herb Brannon
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Herb Brannon
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