North Point Breeze (or Point Breeze North) is a mostly residential

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in the

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. It has a zip code of 15208, and representation on

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by the council member for District 9 (Northeast Neighborhoods). The neighborhood was the site of the estate of the entrepreneur

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— converted after 1918 into

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— as well as the 'Greenlawn' estate of

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one block south. The H.J. Heinz property was subdivided into residential lots after the mansion was knocked down, but the original carriage house was converted into an apartment building and remains standing on what is now Meade Place. The stone wall that stood at the perimeter of the original Heinz estate remains standing, along with a decorative iron fence along

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borders the western end of the neighborhood, with the nearby

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development and

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. Along its northern border is a

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line and the

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, with a stop at North Homewood Avenue serving the neighborhood. The eastern side of the neighborhood includes a light-industry and commercial businesses. These include th
Construction Junction
architectural-reuse center, as well as the Allegheny County and City of Pittsburgh

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call center.
Shady Lane School
a leading area preschool first established in 1966 in the nearby Shadyside neighborhood, has been set at the corners of Penn and North Braddock Avenues since 1992. There's also a food coop, a rental-storage warehouse, in addition to a small residential enclave. Historically, the short-lived Penn Motor Car Company operated on Thomas Boulevard from 1910 to 1912. Th
Point Breeze North Development Corporation
is the local

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, promoting

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, and

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issues. Both of writer

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's memoirs, ''Brothers and Keepers'' and ''Hoop Roots'', use Westinghouse Park as a setting, as does his fictional ''Homewood Trilogy''.

Terminology

North Point Breeze is bordered by Point Breeze proper by

to its south, though both are generally included in the term "Point Breeze" in casual speech and local street signage.

Surrounding neighborhoods

North Point Breeze has five borders, four with the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of

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and

Homewood South Homewood is a predominantly African-American neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, officially divided into three neighborhoods: Homewood North, Homewood South and Homewood West. Homewood is bordered on the southwest by the Ma ...

to the north, Point Breeze to the south, and Larimer to the west. The other border is with the borough of

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to the east. North Point Breeze also runs catty-corner with the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Shadyside to the west at the intersection of Penn and Fifth Avenues (This intersection also serves as a north-south "diagonal" for the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Larimer and Point Breeze).

References

External links

Interactive Pittsburgh Neighborhoods Map
{{Authority control Neighborhoods in Pittsburgh

Terminology

Surrounding neighborhoods

See also

References

External links