Pittsburgh's most unappreciated neighborhoods... (Allentown, McKeesport: mortgage, home, theater)

[macharoni]

Soon -Spring 2014.

[PghYinzer]

Originally Posted by macharoni

Soon -Spring 2014.

Well with this winter, I don't know if Spring 2014 is ever going to come....

[ferraris]

While Troy Hill is mentioned a lot on this forum, I have to agree that it's unappreciated by the general population.

The same goes for Beechview. One of my girlfriend's family members lives in Banksville and thinks I'm off my rocker when I suggest getting dinner in Beechview. They'd rather go to Mt. Lebanon or Bridgeville.

I completely agree that Fineview is unappreciated both on this forum and in real life. It's the red-headed step child of the lower north side for some reason.

I'm going to add Hays to the list. It's just such a strange and interesting neighborhood. I understand why we wouldn't suggest it too often, but I still think it's uniqueness deserves some appreciation.

[Evergrey]

Originally Posted by ferraris

I'm going to add Hays to the list. It's just such a strange and interesting neighborhood. I understand why we wouldn't suggest it too often, but I still think it's uniqueness deserves some appreciation.

What about New Homestead? Nobody talks about that neighborhood.

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by Evergrey

What about New Homestead? Nobody talks about that neighborhood.

New Homestead isn't really one neighborhood, but two or three.

There's streets like this, which look like Hays - mostly empty backwoods messes.

There's a few streets which look like Lincoln Place.

Then there's the Gates Manor/Homeridge Terrace section - a tiny little well-manicured suburban area. Some McMansions were built down here recently, which is why New Homestead was one of the only neighborhoods of the city which had population growth last decade. Perhaps not coincidentally, this is the only segment of the city Mitt Romney won.

[Evergrey]

Originally Posted by eschaton

New Homestead isn't really one neighborhood, but two or three.

There's streets like this, which look like Hays - mostly empty backwoods messes.

There's a few streets which look like Lincoln Place.

Then there's the Gates Manor/Homeridge Terrace section - a tiny little well-manicured suburban area. Some McMansions were built down here recently, which is why New Homestead was one of the only neighborhoods of the city which had population growth last decade. Perhaps not coincidentally, this is the only segment of the city Mitt Romney won.

I welcome more tax base, especially generating value from such a fringe location, but that McMansion development is bizarre and disgusting from a design standpoint. I remember seeing the construction from afar when driving down 885, but have never been on that road... which doesn't even appear on the city's official New Homestead map (and I'm sure the residents probably like it that way). http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/cp/...whomestead.pdf

It appears there is no way to access the bulk of New Homestead from the city.

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by Evergrey

I welcome more tax base, especially generating value from such a fringe location, but that McMansion development is bizarre and disgusting from a design standpoint. I remember seeing the construction from afar when driving down 885, but have never been on that road... which doesn't even appear on the city's official New Homestead map (and I'm sure the residents probably like it that way). http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/cp/...whomestead.pdf

It appears there is no way to access the bulk of New Homestead from the city.

I haven't been that way in a long time, but it looks like Cassabill Drive is already within 50 feet or so of connecting with Mooney Road. The city would be crazy not to try and force a connection, considering how much easier it will make plowing and road maintenance for the vast majority of the neighborhood.

[PreservationPioneer]

This is such a subjective thread, but here's my pictorial vote for McKeesport, just because of its otherworldly emptiness and grim, gothic, post-apocolyptic, Victorian, industrial, river city charm.

[Evergrey]

Originally Posted by eschaton

I haven't been that way in a long time, but it looks like Cassabill Drive is already within 50 feet or so of connecting with Mooney Road. The city would be crazy not to try and force a connection, considering how much easier it will make plowing and road maintenance for the vast majority of the neighborhood.

McMansion developments are not known for their connectivity.

[szug-bot]

Originally Posted by eschaton

New Homestead was one of the only neighborhoods of the city which had population growth last decade. Perhaps not coincidentally, this is the only segment of the city Mitt Romney won.

i dont understand what you are saying - the only neighborhood to have population growth in the last decade voted for the republican candidate...so?

the street linked with "Theres a few streets that look like Lincoln Place" is PERFECT. i would live there.