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Folks I present to you the most ethereal of Pittsburgh neighborhoods. This is Duck Hollow:
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Maybe we can debate whether Pittsburgh is Midwest or not, but the Laurel Highlands just isn’t.
The Midwest has no culture.
Frank Loyd Wright, Falling Water, 1935
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Jorts may save Twitter in the end.
You look busy so I decided not to stand on your desk and yell directly in your ear hole (until later)
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Has anyone ever created a thread of the obscure museums of Pittsburgh. I’ll start with a few, but add on... 🧵
The first one is so obscure I have not been there myself yet. Have you been to the Museum of Large Scale Systems in…. Tarentum?
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Whoa. A Pittsburgh story if you don’t know it.
Universal Pictures has landed an adaptation of Mark A. Bradley’s “Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America,” with newly-minted Oscar winner Cillian Murphy attached to star and produce.
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I still can’t get my head around the fact that this was pitched as the project to save the Hill District.
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I may slowly build this out into a mega thread on “atomic” Pittsburgh, but for those heading to see Oppenheimer this weekend, I give you the Westinghouse Atom Smasher. Forest Hills, PA.
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This is my marker for when the gentrification of East Liberty reaches its culmination.
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Dire times even for the Pennsylvania Lottery. Gus on the street.
Move over, pizza rat. 🍕 A Philadelphia woman found a groundhog outside of her home munching on a piece of pizza for over an hour, completely unfazed by her two dogs.
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Isn’t it odd that the constant drumbeat that Downtown Pittsburgh is an unfixable hellhole just evaporated over the last month?
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I didn’t realize how much opposition there was to this Wilkinsburg - Pittsburgh merger.
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You may have heard that The Atlantic has opened its archives. So for all of Pittsburgh I give you the forever misinterpreted origin of “Hell with the Lid Off” as coined by James Parton following his visit of 1866. Required reading for all here.
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George Washington risking life and limb on this day in 1753 to get to Lawrenceville to buy some real estate before the hipsters jack up the prices.
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Good to know the dire shortage of Downtown office space is being addressed.
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So when I say Pittsburgh houses are old... I mean really old. Been meaning to make this map for awhile. Assessment data, so take with a grain of salt, but still.
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So, you’ve seen the picture of the ‘proposed’ Stadium Over the Mon that emerged in the late 1950s, but do you know the full story of how it came to be? It’s a very Pittsburgh story really. A thread:
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There has not been any ketchup produced in Pittsburgh in more than two decades.
The 2nd iconic Heinz Field Ketchup Bottle is ‘home’
@HistoryCenter
#HereWeGo
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🍅🎄🍅🎄
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Yaaas! There's walkable and then there is WALKABLE Pittsburgh
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One of the densest urban student populations in the US as well, btw.
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My whole worldview has been shattered.
Love this toilet in the basement of home our clients are buying in South Minneapolis.
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Militia flooding the streets as predicted
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He does not realize it, but that’s not on campus; he’s standing in Schenley Park, but here’s the thing. I literally walk by this often. I barely noticed it the other day walking by. It’s not like anything is being disrupted. Even the restaurant right there is operating normally.
It’s sad to see so many students in our community who don’t know the difference between right and wrong.
The antisemitism sweeping college campuses across our nation is deeply disturbing, and we need leaders who have the strength to stand up and say so.
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In terms of opportunity cost, this has to be the most expensive unused* parking in Western Pennsylvania.
* I think the parking across from the city-county building is at least marginally used (and revenue generating) more than this.
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Oh no, if Jorts gives up the ghost that may be the game.
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@kniggem
@TimAeppel
And while we’re here, a vaccine very much based on the singular work of a Hungarian scientist who emigrated to the US, but who might not be able to get a visa today.
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Young Pittsburgh professionals, this is once how old Pittsburgh professions thought they could convince you from leaving town.
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Whenever any Pennsylvania politician, especially any central or western Pennsylvania politician comes out against immigration I am reminded of this evergreen article once in the New York Times:
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or...
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perhaps you will be interested, this barrel from the Russian BMP was filmed by Ukrainians.
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Have not updated this in a couple of years.
Most Common Country of Birth for the Foreign-Born Population - Pennsylvania Counties (ACS 2017-2021)
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Just when you thought the Pittsburgh as Midwest debate had died out: Suri Cruise,18, reveals she'll attend "prestigious midwest university"
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Had one of those moments realizing most of the students walking by this were not even born yet when this was the Beehive. Been remarkably unrented in part for a long time?
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Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Polish Hill, City of Pittsburgh
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Upper Lawrenceville, City of Pittsburgh
Maybe already, but on trend to be the most expensive (per land area square foot at least) real estate in Western Pennsylvania.
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Let’s talk about finding the Amtrak station in Pittsburgh.
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The former Schenley High School, Oakland, City of Pittsburgh
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This. Is. Not. A. Feel. Good. Story.
AWWWW 💑 Woman gets job as dishwasher at senior care facility so she can see her husband with Alzheimer's.
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Political grandstanding over Nippon Steel buying US Steel has reached ridiculous levels. This isn't 1983. For all we know, Nippon is the best chance for US Steel to retain jobs in Pittsburgh. Which isn't to say they will, but most other bidders weren't going to keep all Pgh jobs.
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A Garfield house bought just months ago for $25,000!
NEVER EVER SELL TO ANY WE BUY HOMES OUTFIT. NEVER LET YOUR FRIENDS SELL TO THEM. NEVER LET YOUR RELATIVES SELL TO THEM.
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So the good news is they got that ship out of the Suez Canal.
New problem is the Squirrel Hill Tunnel is jammed again.
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OTD in 1753, the OG hipster George W. swims to shore in Lawrenceville in search of real estate to flip.
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I can’t believe it held out for so long sandwiched between two Rite Aids. Sad.
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Something new from me. The mystery of what may have been the first 'computer' network. Decades before you may imagine, installed at Kaufmann's Downtown Pittsburgh department store... in the 1930s?!
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Bridge inspection twitter is about to become a thing, but this!
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Sometimes people dispute my steel-contraction explanation for current Pittsburgh trends. It was a long time ago, right? It happened across the Rust Belt, right?
Here is my compilation of the largest population declines across all US MSAs in the 80s. Pittsburgh is different. 1/x
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What are the most important or most interesting maps in Pittsburgh’s history. I’ll start with at least 10, but feel free to add more to the tread. For now, historical maps only, maybe another thread will cover the maps of Pittsburgh today. 1/?
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Just preserving an image of this poster/map of the Mon Valley for posterity.
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Here’s the parcel’s current use.
Bloomfield, the next neighborhood targeted for high-rise apartment complex, against zoning code | Click on the image to read the full story
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Ok, here is something new. The Allegheny Observatory, Observatory Hill, City of Pittsburgh
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I have to go to an open house to see what $4k/month in Bloomfield gets you. I presume +utils.
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No matter the boundaries, Pittsburgh remains the largest metropolitan area in Appalachia. Debate!
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Pittsburgh's roads colored by orientation. (you can feel individual neighborhoods trying to express themselves)
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No.. Pennsylvania is not leading the way in unemployment compensation claims because things are worse here as is the common presumption in the media, but because the state has made investments in IT that means the system is no longer dependent on decades old COBOL code!!
The governor of New Jersey just put out the call on live TV that he is desperate for Cobol programmers right now.
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OMG… is there a Pittsburgh Left Hall of Fame?!
With 100-ton beams now arriving in Pittsburgh for the new Fern Hollow Bridge, officials said it could reopen by the end of the year if everything goes smoothly.
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Well, for anyone who was around in Pittsburgh in the 1980s, this is weird.
Japan’s top steelmaker makes a HUGE bet on the US
🇯🇵 🤝 🇺🇸
💰 Nippon Steel will buy US Steel in a $15 billion deal
👀 The deal comes as Nippon Steel expects US steel needs to rise, while demand in Japan is expected to fall
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Has any place in Pittsburgh replaced the supply of desserts once provided by Gullifty’s?
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Slated to be the Billiant Branch (formerly Railroad) Bike-Ped Bridge over the Allegheny River.
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Where to begin? This I think is just nuts. From one of the poorest to one of the richest neighborhoods in less than a decade.
Percentage of Households with Total Annual Income of $100K or more, Lower Lawrenceville - City of Pittsburgh, 2010-2022 (ACS Five-Year Estimates)
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I'm amazed, aghast, amused, and now quite obsessed with this diagram.
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Whatever you think is good or bad about Pittsburgh, Summerset at Frick Park is a marvel of a slag dump.
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Pittsburgh just has to at least try one of these somewhere?
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Oh... it's real.
Looking at real estate in Pittsburgh is fun because look at this there's no way this is a real building. 3 stories in the front, 6 in the back?
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St. Joseph’s Church, Bloomfield, Pittsburgh (closed - awaiting fate)
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For those of you planning your future bike rides over the former Brilliant Branch Railroad Bridge being acquired by Allegheny County ().
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Wow, I had no idea you could zoom in on Zillow and see former parcels that existed before wiped out by highways.. (& never thought about looking at these in the parcel shapefiles?) But here are few plots underneath the 579 crosstown expressway in Pittsburgh
h/t
@DavidColeAIA
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Anyone notice the color of the Cathedral of Learning in the background??
"Chancellor Wesley Posvar participates in a keg roll on the Cathedral of Learning lawn." - c1980
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I’ve posted this before, but always fascinated when I see it. You have to read the story in the inset.
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Former Pittsburgh Brewing Company Brewery, Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh
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