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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 City Living
    Learn why you should live in Pittsburgh and where. Explore the different neighborhoods and pair them to your lifestyle. Learn about incentives such as special mortgage opportunities, tax abatements, and the Pittsburgh Promise college scholarship fund.
  • Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group (PCRG)
    Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group (PCRG) develops innovative reinvestment programs that target Pittsburgh’s low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Neighborhood crime: 2009 statistics
    Check out this interactive map of Pittsburgh police bureau's 2009 annual report, including neighborhood-by-neighborhood crime statistics, including violent crime, property crime and numerous other crimes, including vandalism, prostitution and drunken driving.
  • 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.
  • WQED TV: It's Pittsburgh
    Rick Sebak has a new weekly show called "It's Pittsburgh and a lot of other stuff" airing Wednesdays at 7:30pm.
  • WQED TV: Pittsburgh 360
    This weekly TV program looks at the people and places, issues and stories that shape the fabric of Pittsburgh and its surrounding communities. Airing Thursdays at 7:30 pm.
 

Individual Neighborhoods

Allegheny West

Bloomfield

Brighton Heights

Downtown

East Liberty

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.
  • Pop City: Highland Park
    Includes articles highlighting the advantages of living in Highland Park.

Homewood

Lawrenceville

  • Lawrenceville Corporation
    Located northeast of downtown, along the Allegheny River, Lawrenceville is an older neighborhood undergoing rejuvenation.
  • Lawrenceville Historical Society
    Offers information about the history of this Pittsburgh neighborhood, in addition to information on current events that the society is involved in
  • Lawrenceville Stakeholders
    Lawrenceville Stakeholders is a non-profit advocacy organization that works to improve Lawrenceville and its quality of life.
  • Lawrenceville United
    Lawrenceville United is an inclusive, resident-driven community–based non-profit organization focused on improving the overall quality of life for Lawrenceville residents and stakeholders through community engagement, organizing, advocacy, planning and development.
  • New York Times: Butler Street: A Design District Takes Shape
    This 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.
  • PopCity: The updated guide to Lawrenceville
    An article by Nick Keppler on Wednesday, January 11, 2012: "The backbone of Lawrenceville is now about 80 businesses involved in visual art in some way."

Morningside

  • Morningside Area Community Council
    Morningside is one of Pittsburgh’s best kept secrets. Close-knit and friendly, neighbors live in two-story brick homes with old fashioned porches that encourage long talks and quick chats with friends and neighbors.

Mount Washington

Northside

  • Allegheny Commons
    Pittsburgh's oldest park, Allegheny Commons, dates to 1867 when it was designed to provide "breathing places" for the citizens of what was then the sooty city of Allegheny.
  • Deutschtown (East Allegheny)
    "Just across the river from Pittsburgh’s Cultural District and next to the new North Shore, you’ll find Deutschtown, also known as 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.
  • Northside Now
    A guide to various businesses and organizations in the Northside from the Northside Cultural Collaborative.
  • Pittsburgh Northside Leadership Conference
    A promotional site for getting people to live, work and invest in the Northside.
  • PopCity: The Insider Guide to the Northside
    An article by Jen Saffron from the Wednesday, January 13, 2010 issue.

Oakland

  • 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".
  • PopCity: Oakland
    Articles and guides to the city's dominant academic and medical center.

Observatory Hill

  • 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

Regent Square

  • 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

South Side

Squirrel Hill

Strip District

The Strip is the produce district just north of Downtown.

Troy Hill

  • Troy Hill
    Check out the blog for this small neighborhood perched atop a hill on the North Side overlooking the Allegheny River.

West End

  • West End Village
    West Pittsburgh Partnership for Regional Development, Inc. (WPP) is a nonprofit community development corporation dedicated to rebuilding Pittsburgh's European-styled West End Village.

Last updated May 01, 2012