Pittsburgh Neighborhoods

Links to websites about Pittsburgh Neighborhoods, especially to neighborhood civic organizations.

Directories and City-Wide Organizations

• City of Pittsburgh: Neighborhoods
  The City provides a map of and information about each neighborhood with links to related organizations.
• Pittsburgh Neighborhood Tours
  A promotional website for the neighborhoods of Bloomfield, Lawrenceville, Oakland, Mount Washington, North Side, South Side and the Strip District. Find out what you can do in these neighborhoods.
• Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group (PCRG)
  Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group (PCRG) is a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation consisting of a consortium of community-based organizations that represent low- and moderate- income neighborhoods in the City of Pittsburgh. PCRG develops programs that address the core of community reinvestment issues.
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: City Walkabout
  City Walkabout is the blog of Post-Gazette beat writer Diana Nelson Jones. She covers the city's neighborhoods and offers a platform for informally presenting the neighborhood viewpoint, mixing news, slice of life and readers’ conversations.
• PopCity
  PopCity covers the city neighborhoods of Downtown, East Liberty, Friendship & Penn Avenue Arts District, Lawrenceville, North Side, Oakland, Shadyside, South Side, Squirrel Hill, and The Strip District.

Individual Neighborhoods

• Allegheny West Civic Council
  Allegheny West is the smallest Pittsburgh neighborhood, located on the north side of Pittsburgh.
• Bloomfield
  • Bloomfield: Little Italy
    Information from the Bloomfield Business Association.
• Brighton Heights Citizens’ Federation
  Brighton Heights is a hilltop community in the city’s Northside. This 718 acre neighborhood offers a backyard view of the city skyline and the Ohio River.
• Downtown
  • Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership
    Includes information on living downtown.
  • Pittsburgh Cultural Trus
    See what's going on downtown.
  • PopCity: Downtown & The Cultural District
    Includes a visitor guide and a moving guide.
• East Liberty
  • PopCity: East Libery
    Includes a visitor guide and a moving guide.
• Highland Park
  • Highland Park
    Highland Park is a neighborhood in the northeast of the city of Pittsburgh that is primarily residential with a major city park and the zoo.
• Lawrenceville
  • Lawrenceville
    A new neighborhood site coming in the fall of 2007.
  • Lawrenceville Corporation
    Located northeast of downtown, along the Allegheny River, Lawrenceville is an older neighborhood undergoing rejuvenation.
  • Lawrenceville Stakeholders
    Lawrenceville Stakeholders is a non-profit advocacy organization that works to improve Lawrenceville and its quality of life.
  • Butler Street: A Design District Takes Shape
    This New York Times article from Sunday, October 14, 2007, highlights the new up and coming fashion, art, and home decor shops along Butler Street.
  • LoLa: Lower Lawrenceville
    Lower Lawrenceville is a unique blend of independent boutiques, galleries, restaurants, businesses and arts organizations ideal for city shopping, dining, and entertainment.
  • Penn Main
    Penn Main Business District of Lawrenceville
• Mount Washington
  • Mount Washington Community Development Corporation
    Mt. Washington overlooks downtown Pittsburgh from tall cliffs on the south shore of the Monongahela River.
  • VuPlus
    This is the MWCDC's new site highlighting their summer weekend Arts Marketplace.
• Northside
  • Deutschtown (East Allegheny)
    Located on the eastern North Side (East Allegheny). Learn more from this November 29, 2008, article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: East Allegheny residents taking neighborhood to new heights
  • Mexican War Streets Society
    Located on Pittsburgh’s North Side, in the heart of the former City of Allegheny, the Mexican War Streets is designated both federally and by the City of Pittsburgh as a historic Victorian-era district, plotted out in 1848 after the Mexican-American War.
• Oakland: Only in Oakland
  This website from the Oakland Business Improvement District (BID) provides a lot of information for the visitor under "what are you looking for".
• Observatory Hill
  Observatory Hill, located on the Northside of Pittsburgh, boasts a tight-knit community, stately homes, a business district, historic Riverview Park, and the Allegheny Observatory.
• Polish Hill Civic Association of Pittsburgh
  
• Regent Square Civic Association
  Regent Square is a tree-lined neighborhood on the eastern side of the City of Pittsburgh. The neighborhood is sited along both sides of Braddock Avenue between the Parkway East and Forbes Avenue and is composed of the communities of Edgewood, Pittsburgh, Swissvale and Wilkinsburg.
• Shadyside
  • Shadyside Shops
    This site from the Shadyside Chamber of Commerce has links to restaurants and shops on both Walnut Street and Ellsworth.
  • PopCity: Shadyside
    Includes a visitors guide and a moving guide.
• South Point Breeze
  An east neighborhood bordered by Shady, Fifth, Penn, Braddock, Forbes, and Wilkins Avenues.
• South Side
  • South Side Local Development Company
    Located south across the Monongahela River from downtown Pittsburgh. Their website offers information for finding housing.
  • Spotlight on Main Street
    “Spotlight on Main Street” focuses community attention on the history, architectural significance, and enduring value of East Carson Street, South Side's historic main street.
• Squirrel Hill
  • Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition (SHUC)
    This site offers news about Squirrel Hill, a calendar of upcoming events, a list of businesses, and quick facts about Squirrel Hill.
  • PopCity: Squirrel
    Includes a visitors guide and a moving guide.
• Strip District
  The Strip is the produce district just north of Downtown.
  • Neighbors in the Strip (NITS)
    This is the official website for The Strip, Pittsburgh's Historic Market District. NITS is an organization of stakeholders in the area (see membership.
  • PopCity: Strip District
    Includes a visitors guide and a moving guide.