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attractionSchenley ParkLarge urban park with hiking trails, golf course, tennis courts, and Flagstaff Hill with panoramic city views.Hiking trailsFlagstaff Hill viewsGolf course
neighborhoodMt. WashingtonHistoric neighborhood perched on a hilltop with stunning city views, historic inclines, and charming residential streets. Known for its panoramic skyline views.Stunning city viewsHistoric inclinesPanoramic skyline
storyThe Neighborhood Pittsburgh Erased for ProgressLower Hill urban renewal cleared a dense Black neighborhood for a redevelopment vision whose promised replacement city took decades to materialize.HistoryLower Hillurban renewal
storyThe Neighborhood Pittsburgh Erased to Build Its RenaissanceHow the Lower Hill was declared blighted, cleared by public power, replaced by one of America's most futuristic arenas—and left Pittsburgh arguing for generations about what progress is allowed to cost.HistoryLower Hillurban renewal
storyThe Week Pittsburgh’s Grief Became FireAfter Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968, grief, anger, unrest and a later peace march transformed Pittsburgh’s Hill District in different ways across the same week.History1968Martin Luther King Jr
storyThe Newspaper That Asked America Which Democracy It Was Fighting ForHow one young Black defense worker wrote to the Pittsburgh Courier and helped turn World War II into two battles at onceHistoryPittsburgh CourierDouble V