Any pictures of the northside? mexican war streets? (Pittsburgh, Bethel Park: neighborhoods, school districts)

[cjb1514]

Just wondering if it's been posted before...

[Hopes]

Although not titled, there are quite a few in this thread:

http://www.city-data.com/forum/pitts...been-here.html

Maybe you could post asking the OP to pull out the ones for North Side and the Mexican War Streets.

Or maybe I'll copy the ones I recognize into this thread if the OP of the other thread doesn't mind.

I don't feel comfortable doing it without permission since he is the photographer.

[Herodotus]

I've got a ton. I'll post some in this thread soon.

[Herodotus]

Here we go!

[Hopes]

Great pictures!

I wish you could do this for every single town and neighborhood---Millvale, Etna, Sharpsburg, Aspinwall, Bawnox, Oakmont, etc.

Even the suburbs! It would be great for people to see the diversity and vastness of our townships. There's a little of everything within most school districts.

[Herodotus]

I've got pics from pretty much every area in the city, and some of the inner burbs as well.

[Joshbarblahblah]

Originally Posted by Hopes

Great pictures!

I wish you could do this for every single town and neighborhood---Millvale, Etna, Sharpsburg, Aspinwall, Bawnox, Oakmont, etc.

Even the suburbs!

Aren't all of the neighborhoods you listed suburbs? : )


North Side/War Streets/Deutschtown are such a gorgeous neighborhoods.

[PreservationPioneer]

I don't really consider Etna, Millvale, and Sharpsburg suburbs, even though they are not technically in the city. These neighborhoods still have an urban feel that the suburbs lack, and they were built up long before the rise of cookie-cutter suburbia, white flight, etc.

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by Joshbarblahblah

Aren't all of the neighborhoods you listed suburbs? : )

Although not within the city limits, Millvale, Etna, Sharpsburg, Aspinwall, Bawnox, Oakmont are not suburbs.

They were independent, thriving towns of their own once.

Etna used to be THE PLACE to go for holidays, parades, etc. People trekked to Etna from Butler and beyond.

Suburbs are sprawling neighborhoods with modern housing developments.

Originally Posted by Joshbarblahblah

North Side/War Streets/Deutschtown are such a gorgeous neighborhoods.

They are! I just feel that the entire Pittsburgh metro area deserves to be highlighted by someone.

People moving to the area need to see that beautiful victorians line Glenshaw Avenue (and the immediate surrounding streets) in Shaler Township.

That area was the origional town of Glenshaw---back before Glenshaw was only a zip code.

For example, look at this house and this house and this house. There are MANY, MANY more.

There's even the origional library on Butler Plank Road. I've never been in it, but I'll bet it's filled with old treasures. It's open on occassion.

Pittsburgh's suburban townships aren't only filled with subdivisions. There are some beautiful old neighborhoods hidden away in pockets everywhere.

You guys should really get out of the city sometime and venture into these old little towns.

Originally Posted by alleghenyangel

I don't really consider Etna, Millvale, and Sharpsburg suburbs, even though they are not technically in the city. These neighborhoods still have an urban feel that the suburbs lack, and they were built up long before the rise of cookie-cutter suburbia, white flight, etc.

Thank you! Thank you!

[ditchdigger]

I don't really consider Etna, Millvale, and Sharpsburg suburbs, even though they are not technically in the city. These neighborhoods still have an urban feel that the suburbs lack, and they were built up long before the rise of cookie-cutter suburbia, white flight, etc.

Although not within the city limits, Millvale, Etna, Sharpsburg, Aspinwall, Bawnox, Oakmont are not suburbs.

They were independent, thriving towns of their own once.

Etna used to be THE PLACE to go for holidays, parades, etc. People trekked to Etna from Butler and beyond.

Suburbs are sprawling neighborhoods with modern housing developments.

You have to consider the context you're using the term in. If you're discussing taxes, or police departments, or municipal services, or elected officials, then they most certainly do need to be labled as suburbs.

If you're simply discussing the feel of the community, ok, you can distinguish them from say Bethel Park or Monroeville, but to make a flat statement that they're not suburbs is misleading.

sub⋅urb  /ˈsʌbɜrb/ [suhb-urb]
–noun 1.a district lying immediately outside a city or town, esp. a smaller residential community.

2.the suburbs, the area composed of such districts.

3.an outlying part.