East Pittsburgh is a

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, about southeast of the confluence of the Monongahela and the Allegheny rivers at

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. The population in 1900 stood at 2,883, and in 1910, at 5,615. As of the 2020 census, the borough population was 1,927, having fallen from 6,079 in 1940.

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erected large works there which supplied equipment to the great power plants at

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and for the elevated and rapid-transit systems of

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. Nearby, the

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over Turtle Creek is a prominent fixture in the area, which is very near the borough of

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History

The first transmission from pioneering radio station

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was made from East Pittsburgh on November 2, 1920. In 1928, an early demonstration of a new medium was conducted at the Westinghouse laboratories in East Pittsburgh. Eventually, the new medium became known as

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Vladimir Zworykin Vladimir Kosma Zworykin; or with the patronymic as ''Kosmich''; or russian: Кузьмич, translit=Kuz'mich, label=none. Zworykin anglicized his name to ''Vladimir Kosma Zworykin'', replacing the patronymic with the name ''Kosma'' as a middle na ...

worked for

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at that time. He lived in the borough of

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. The Westinghouse Works became the Research and Business Park "Keystone Commons" in 1989. The East Pittsburgh School District included Bessemer Avenue Elementary School and East Pittsburgh Junior/Senior High School on Howard Street. East Pittsburgh's school colors were green and white, and its athletic teams were called the

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s. During the 1970–71 school year, the East Pittsburgh School District was merged, by court order, with the neighboring Turtle Creek School District for the following year. In the final basketball game between the two rivals, the Shamrocks defeated Turtle Creek, 65–63.

Government and politics

Geography

East Pittsburgh is located at (40.396969, -79.839869). The borough is about outside of the easternmost city limits of

and about from city hall in Pittsburgh. According to the

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, the borough has a total area of , all of it land.

Surrounding and adjacent neighborhoods

East Pittsburgh has four borders, including Chalfant to the north, Turtle Creek to the northeast, North Versailles Township (via the Westinghouse Bridge or East Pittsburgh–McKeesport Blvd. Bridge) from the east to the southwest, and

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to the west and northwest.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 2,017 people, 936 households, and 496 families residing in the borough. The

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was 5,163.5 people per square mile (1,996.8/km²). There were 1,107 housing units at an average density of 2,833.9 per square mile (1,095.9/km²). The racial makeup of the borough was 76.10%

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, 20.92%

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, 0.35% Native American, 0.10%

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, 0.05%

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, 0.30% from other races, and 2.18% from two or more races.

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of any race were 0.50% of the population. There were 936 households, out of which 28.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 27.7% were

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living together, 21.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 47.0% were non-families. 43.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.14 and the average family size was 2.97. In the borough the population was spread out, with 25.7% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 29.6% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 17.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 78.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 72.3 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $21,286, and the median income for a family was $32,037. Males had a median income of $26,512 versus $23,050 for females. The

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for the borough was $13,391. About 17.5% of families and 22.0% of the population were below the

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, including 34.0% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those age 65 or over.

Notable people

* Milton Katselas, stage and film director *

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(1927–2008), film writer and producer *

Joseph Wambaugh Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937), is a best-selling American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his early novels were set in Los Angeles and its surroun ...

, novelist

References

External links

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Historic pictures and schematics of the area's rail service
{{authority control Populated places established in 1895 Pittsburgh metropolitan area Boroughs in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 1895 establishments in Pennsylvania