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Brooklyn in Pittsburgh

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Rain rain go away! Ok maybe not. Rain brings out a differet look in the city. Maybe on a rainy day Lawrenceville looks like Brooklyn New York. I dont really see it. They both have row house and started out as independent neighborhoods. Or maybe it the industry to highend living. Both have great Pizza. But the Pizza is different. For me its a story of rebirth. As a kid Lawrenceville was know for warehouse and industry. It was a place where cannon balls were made durring the Civil War. But today its home to familys and a number of …

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Take a walk in the Cultural District.

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As a young man in the early 1990’s the area known as the Cultural District was far from that. It was a forgoten part of downtown. It was dangerous. Pepshows and bars. Not the kind of places you wanted to go. Homeless and trash. Pittsburgh was still in decline. The scares of losing many steel jobs were still healing. The Culture District Represented the beging of the healing process. The Vision and Founding Transformation and Development

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Pittsburgh’s North Shore vs North Side.

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To some it’s everything across the Alleghney River from downtown. There is more to it then that. The North Shore is the area between the  Rachel Carson Bridge, or  Ninth Street Bridge to the Rivers Casino. It’s a new area bulldozed in the late 1990s/2000 to build stadiums and ball parks. Its the bustling place on game day. None game days its filled with chain resturants and river trails. Its a river life The Northside is north of the highway. Its filled with neighborhoods and mom and pop resturants. Quit parks and beuitiful old houses .

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