North Point Breeze (or Point Breeze North) is a mostly residential
neighborhood in the
East End of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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. It has a zip code of 15208, and representation on
Pittsburgh City Council
The Pittsburgh City Council serves as the legislative body in the City of Pittsburgh. It consists of nine members. City council members are chosen by plurality elections in each of nine districts. The city operates under a mayor-council syst ...
by the council member for District 9 (Northeast Neighborhoods).
The neighborhood was the site of the estate of the entrepreneur
George Westinghouse
George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age ...
— converted after 1918 into
Westinghouse Park
Westinghouse Park is a city-block sized municipal park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The park land is the former estate of George Westinghouse, an American entrepreneur and engineer, and his wife Marguerite. With an area of about 10 acres, it wa ...
— as well as the 'Greenlawn' estate of
Henry J. Heinz 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
Penn Avenue
Penn Avenue is a major arterial street in Pittsburgh and Wilkinsburg, in Pennsylvania. Its western terminus lies at Gateway Center in downtown Pittsburgh. For its westernmost ten blocks it serves as the core of the Cultural District with such ...
.
Fifth Avenue borders the western end of the neighborhood, with the nearby
Bakery Square
Bakery Square is an open-air shopping and office development in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Larimer, adjacent to the neighborhoods of Shadyside and East Liberty in the city's East End. Bakery Square is located on 5.1 acres along Penn Avenue. ...
development and
Mellon Park
Mellon Park is a park in the Shadyside and Point Breeze neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, straddling both sides of Fifth Avenue, from approximately Shady Avenue to Penn Avenue, the western corner abutting Pittsburgh Center for the Ar ...
. Along its northern border is a
Norfolk Southern Railway line and the
Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway
The Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway is a two-lane bus-only highway serving the city of Pittsburgh and many of its eastern neighborhoods and suburbs. It was named after Martin Luther King Jr. in recognition of the eastern portion of the route ...
, 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 Junctionarchitectural-reuse center, as well as the Allegheny County and City of Pittsburgh
9-1-1 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 Corporationis the local
neighborhood association
A neighborhood association (NA) is a group of residents or property owners who advocate to organize activities within a neighborhood. An association may have elected leaders and voluntary dues.
Some neighborhood associations in the United States ...
, promoting
real estate
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,
historic preservation
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, and
public safety
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issues.
Both of writer
John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and essayist. He was the first person to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice. His writing is known for experimental techniques and a focus o ...
'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
Penn Avenue
Penn Avenue is a major arterial street in Pittsburgh and Wilkinsburg, in Pennsylvania. Its western terminus lies at Gateway Center in downtown Pittsburgh. For its westernmost ten blocks it serves as the core of the Cultural District with such ...
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
Homewood West
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 ...
and
Homewood South to the north,
Point Breeze to the south, and
Larimer to the west. The other border is with the borough of
Wilkinsburg 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).
See also
*
List of Pittsburgh neighborhoods
This is a list of 90 neighborhoods in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Generally neighborhood development followed ward boundaries, although the City Planning Commission has defined some neighborhood areas. The map of neighbor ...
References
External links
Interactive Pittsburgh Neighborhoods Map
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Neighborhoods in Pittsburgh