The Hills and Hollows of PITTSBURGH

[Evergrey]

ok, this is an extremely random Pittsburgh photo thread. Normally I have an objective to cover a certain neighborhood or get some skyline shots from unique angles... but this time I had no inspiration to do anything... so I just random drove and walked around parts of the city and snapped whatever looked interesting.

Here's a view of downtown and Mellon Arena from the redeveloped Crawford-Roberts portion of the Lower Hill District.

a beat up row on Webster in the Middle Hill

Bloomfield Bridge and Children's Hospital

North Oakland

many public staircases in Pittsburgh are legal streets... this one is in rather pathetic condition

a hidden enclave

Bellefield

Schenley Farms

Schenley High School

Oakland through the trees

Upper Hill District

Carnegie-Mellon University in the distance

Bloomfield

Upper Hill / Herron Hill

Herron Hill Park... the highest point in the city... most of Pittsburgh is visible from here

North Side in the distance

the Cathedral of Learning emerges

East End neighborhoods

Bloomfield

East Liberty's skyline

Lawrenceville

That's Millvale on the far side of the blue bridge

Upper Hill housing

"suburb" of Homestead from Squirrel Hill... the suburban-esque mixed-use development The Waterfront visible on ... the waterfront

Monongahela River

Now I will give you a tour of Duck Hollow. Duck Hollow is Pittsburgh's smallest, most obscure, most hidden... and most endangered neighborhood. Plans for the Mon-Fayette expressway may obliterate this bucolic hamlet.

"no wonder they call it Duck Hollow"

Duck Hollow residents assert their strong neighborhood identification with duck imagery

skyline/industry shot from Hazelwood

Hot Metal Bridge

[PghUSA]

Nice shot of the developments at the new Children's Hospital . . . I like those Herron Hill shots, last time I was up there to take pics I got stopped by 2 street clothed PPD detectives on my way down the staircase . . . then again Cheney was coming to the 'burgh later that week, the two thought I was taking pics of the treatment facility up there. I did let them know about this forum though, wonder if they started posting yet .

[ZachariahDaMan]

Great pictures, I especially like the last one, it's amazing!