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storyThe Vice District Built Beside RespectabilityPittsburgh’s vice districts did not exist outside respectable property markets. Brothels, saloons, lodging houses, theaters, churches, factories, and family homes could occupy the same few blocks.Historyviceproperty records
storyHow to Do a Strip District MorningMarkets, coffee, and riverside walks — a practical morning loop through Pittsburgh’s Strip District.Local Guidestrip districtmarkets
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 Hill’s Three-Digit DreamPittsburgh’s numbers economy turned three digits into a private language of hope — including the August 5, 1930 hit on 805 that lore says broke neighborhood banks.Historynumbers game805
storyPittsburgh Cleaned Up City Hall—Then Power Learned the New RulesIn 1911 Pittsburgh replaced its sprawling ward-based councils with nine at-large seats; decades later, representation problems forced the city to reform the reform.Historycity council1911 reform