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The City, Neighborhoods and the University of Pittsburgh | 2019-20 2 1 THE PITT NEWS VISITORS GUIDE THE CITY, NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | 2019-20 2 pittnews.com 2019 - 2020 Visitors Guide 2 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS UNiversity of The City Pittsburgh 31: Scenic Places 8: Pitt History 32: Parks and 9: Best Traditions Recreation 10: Renovating Pitt 33: Farmers Markets 11: Parking Tips 35: Pittsburgh Arts 36: Breweries in the 12: Campus Landmarks ’Burgh 13: Gyms/AthLETIC 37: City of Stages Facilities 38: Pittsburgh Public Transportation Neighborhoods 40: Faith Directory 17: Oakland 42: Pittsburgh Zoo 18: Downtown and PPG Aquarium 19: Shadyside 44: Phipps 22: East Liberty Conservatory and 23: Bloomfield Botanical Gardens 24: Bike Map 45: Pittsburgh Trivia 26: North Side/ Cheat Sheet South Side 46: Pittsburgh for 27: Squirrel Hill Dummies 28: Strip District 29: Lawrenceville pittnews.com 2019 - 2020 Visitors Guide 3 4 The Pitt News The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com COVER PHOTO EDITORIAL BUSINESS STAFF Elise Lavallee STAFF Forrest Blondell Janine Faust Kyle Guiness LAYOUT DESIGN Caroline Bourque Victoria Kline Eli Savage & Trent Leonard Thomas Toure Elise Lavallee Sarah Connor Jordan Falk Maggie Durwald Paige Eritz PHOTO EDITORS Thomas Yang & COPY CHIEFS Sarah Cutshall Bailey Sasseville & Maggie Young pittnews.com 2019 - 2020 Visitors Guide 4 5 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Dear Readers, parts of it for the first time on their own. Last year, we launched this Visitor’s Guide with Welcome! If you’re feeling lost, adrift, or un- the intention of helping other recent arrivals sure of what to do and where to go, don’t wor- discover what Pittsburgh has to offer — or, if ry — you’re certainly not alone in Pittsburgh. you’re already from the area, rediscover it. The With its ever-expanding 29 universities, ris- Steel City is constantly growing in all sorts of ing tourism rates and booming arts and tech ways, and our staff of writers, photographers, scene, more and more people are visiting the graphics designers and editors are excited to City for the first time each year. continue covering it in real time. Like many other Pitt students, I first visited Take our word for it — there’s much more Pittsburgh as a high school senior on a college going on in Pittsburgh than at first glance, and visit. Coming from a former steel town out- this guide will lead you to its most iconic sites side of Philadelphia, the big city’s small-town and up-and-coming hidden gems. Whether vibe made it feel both like home and a place of you’re in the City for business, pleasure or Pitt, adventure to me. Each of the City’s 90 neigh- we hope you enjoy your stay. borhoods has its own distinct character, from bustling Oakland, to trendy Lawrenceville to Sincerely, peaceful Point Breeze, and there’s no shortage of new experiences and attractive haunts. As students, most of The Pitt News staff are Janine Faust also visitors to this city, or are exploring new Editor-in-chief pittnews.com 2019 - 2020 Visitors Guide 5 6 WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH pittnews.com 2019 - 2020 Visitors Guide 6 7 pittnews.com 2019 - 2020 Visitors Guide 7 8 A brief history of Pitt by GRANT BURGMAN PHOTO VIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SERVICES ARCHIVES ong before the Cathedral of Learning home to the third-largest refracting telescope in Western Hemisphere and the fourth tallest educa- stood tall above Oakland and the the United States. tionally purposed in the world. L University of Pittsburgh ran down both The institute made one last move before Following the end of World War II in 1945, Pitt Fifth and Forbes avenues, the entire institution settling in Oakland when it moved to Allegheny had a string of scientific breakthroughs from its was housed in a log cabin. City, now Pittsburgh’s North Side, in 1882. Wil- researchers. Perhaps most famously, professor Jo- Hugh Henry Brackenridge, an 18th-century liam Hunter Dammond earned a degree in civil nas Salk developed the vaccine for polio in 1955, lawyer and a Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice, engineering from Western University 11 years effectively curing the disease in the United States. founded the University of Pittsburgh as the Pitts- later in 1893, becoming its first black graduate. This run of discoveries earned Pitt member- burgh Academy in 1787 in that lone log cabin on Sisters Margaret and Stella Stein, the first ship in the Association of American Universities what was then the American frontier. The original women to attend the University, graduated with — an organization of North America’s leading cabin is no longer standing, but a replica was built bachelor’s degrees five years later in 1898, tied for research universities — in 1974. outside the Cathedral along Forbes Avenue for first in their class. The onset of the 21st century saw Pitt graduates Pitt’s bicentennial in 1987 and stands there today. The University finally changed its name for gain recognition on the world stage. Pitt graduate The Pittsburgh Academy was reconstituted as good 10 years later in 1908, becoming the Univer- Michael Chabon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize a full university in 1819, following a rapid increase sity of Pittsburgh. The decision was made, among for Fiction in 2001 for his novel “The Amazing in Pittsburgh’s population. This time, the school other reasons, to better indicate the University’s Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.” Wangari Maathai, changed its name to the Western University of location and avoid confusion that the institution was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for Pennsylvania. existed merely as a western branch of the Univer- her work with the Green Belt Movement, an As the City grew, the University grew with sity of Pennsylvania. At the same time, Pitt began organization that helps organize and employ it. The Western University of Pennsylvania was constructing its Oakland campus, moving away Kenyan women to grow renewable resources in moved into a larger, three-story building in from the North Side. their villages. downtown Pittsburgh in 1830. That three-story Pitt decided to make its official mascot the Pan- Pitt stands today as a nationally ranked public building would be destroyed in a fire 15 years ther the following year, becoming the first college university by The Wall Street Journal. There later, along with all of the University’s records. to pick that animal. are currently more than 19,000 undergraduate Luckily, Western University would find another The ensuing century became one of discovery students and 9,000 graduate students enrolled at permanent home 10 years after that, in 1855 in at Pitt. Pitt chemistry professor Charles Glen King Pitt and for a total of 28,000 students. downtown Pittsburgh. started the trend when he identified the chemical At this point in its history, Pitt has become a While Western University was Downtown, structure of vitamin C in 1932, a discovery that significant institution in both research and educa- a group of industrialists called the Allegheny would eventually lead to the cure for scurvy. tion, and has established itself as the largest public Telescope Association donated the Allegheny The Cathedral of Learning was dedicated just university in Western Pennsylvania. Observatory to Western University. Today, the five years later in 1937. The now iconic building Pictured: Jonas Salk and Percival Bazely circa Allegheny Observatory is still part of Pitt and is the second tallest university building in the 1954-55. pittnews.com 2019 - 2020 Visitors Guide 8 9 TOP PANTHER TRADITIONS by JANINE FAUST EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The University of Pittsburgh was founded in 1787 as the Pittsburgh Academy on what was then the edge of the American frontier. It has since had plenty of time to develop its academic departments, medical school, research prowess, athletics department — and most importantly, its numerous beloved traditions. Sliding over the old Forbes Field Lantern Night home plate The University’s oldest tradition began in the 1920s, Oakland was once home to Forbes Field, a baseball “Sweet Caroline” when the first women were admitted to Pitt. Alumnae park built in 1909 that was the home field for the Pitts- The tradition of belting Neil Diamond’s 1960s hit be- welcome female first-years and transfers the weekend burgh Steelers, Pirates and Panthers before it was torn tween the third and fourth quarters of Pitt football games before their first term at Pitt begins by symbolically down in 1970. The former home plate of Forbes Field is a fairly recent one, introduced by former Pitt football passing the “light of learning” to the incoming students. was saved and embedded in the floor of Pitt’s Posvar player and director of ticket marketing Justin Acierno in The annual event takes place in Heinz Memorial Chapel, Hall. Students who don’t have time to swing across 2008. Students have since given the popular song a Pan- where flame bearers — female Pitt graduates who are campus to rub the Panther’s nose can opt to step on ther twist for game time, tailgates and after-parties — the also mothers and grandmothers of student participants or slide across the old plate for a touch of good luck original repeating phrase, “So good!” is replaced with “Go — light lanterns given to each member of the newest in a rush. Pitt!” and the iconic trumpet line with “Let’s go Pitt!” generation of Pitt women. The Walkways Kissing on the steps of Heinz Make sure to glance down if you find yourself The Panther’s nose strolling along the stone walkways connecting the The Millennium Panther was gifted to the Uni- Chapel Cathedral of Learning and Heinz Memorial Chapel — versity by the Student Government Board in 2001 If you catch a couple locking lips on the steps of you’ll find the names of Pitt’s finest student leaders, to commemorate the arrival of the third millennium.
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