Boundary Street
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Boundary Street | |
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Neighborhoods | Central Oakland, Greenfield, North Oakland, South Oakland, Squirrel Hill North |
Origin of name | Boundary between Pitt Township and Oakland |
- See also 33rd Street, which was originally called Boundary Street.
Boundary Street is so named because it was formerly the boundary between Pitt Township and Oakland.[1] Today it runs along or very near the official boundary between Oakland and Squirrel Hill.[2]
Today Boundary Street has two disconnected segments: one that leads down into Junction Hollow from Neville Street, and a short piece farther south in Four Mile Run. These used to be part of the same continuous street.[3] The middle section was closed in the 1970s.[4] By 1996 the land between these two halves of the street had been covered by gravel and dirt fill, with uncertain plans for the future.[5] The Junction Hollow Trail, connecting the two segments, was built in 1999;[6] the soccer field there was opened in 2001.[7]
References
- ↑ Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the city, neighborhoods, streets, parks and more got their names, p. 65. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source] regan
- ↑ Pittsburgh Neighborhoods. Pittsburgh Department of City Planning, GIS Division. https://gis.pittsburghpa.gov/pghneighborhoods/. Linked from https://pittsburghpa.gov/innovation-performance/interactive-maps. [view source] pgh-nbhds-map
- ↑ Atlas of the Cities of Pittsburgh, Allegheny, and the Adjoining Boroughs. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1872. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1872-atlas-pittsburgh-allegheny; 1872 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1872
- ↑ Lillian Thomas. "Plans for trail and soccer fields take many residents by surprise." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct. 12, 1998, p. A-11. Newspapers.com 94990822. [view source] thomas-plans
- ↑ Gary Rotstein. "Undeveloped dreams: City gains 26 acres along Schenley Park, dormant for decades, but plans still await." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 25, 1996, p. A-11. Newspapers.com 91764217. [view source] rotstein-undeveloped
- ↑ Lillian Thomas. "Panther Hollow: Trails to be extended." Cityscape. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Mar. 22, 1999, p. B-3. Newspapers.com 94309531. [view source] thomas-cityscape
- ↑ Gary Rotstein. "Panther Hollow field gets rave reviews." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 13, 2001, p. B-6. Newspapers.com 90158254. [view source] rotstein-panther