Hill District
The Hill District is a grouping of historically African American neighborhoods in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Hill District is a grouping of historically African American neighborhoods in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Beginning in the years leading up to World War I, "the Hill" was the cultural center of black life in the city and a major center of jazz. Despite its cultural and economic vibrancy, in the mid-1950s a substantial area was slated for redevelopment, displacing about 8,000 individuals.
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Worth seeing in and around Hill District
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the university's central administration and over 31,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
2.2 km · state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 02Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools.
3.1 km · private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 03PPG Paints Arena
PPG Paints Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that serves as the home of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. It previously was the home of the Pittsburgh Power of the Arena Football League from 2011 to 2014.
1 km · multi-purpose indoor arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; home to the Pittsburgh Penguins · Wikipedia - 04Acrisure Stadium
Acrisure Stadium, formerly known as Heinz Field, is a stadium located in the North Shore neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. It primarily serves as the home of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League and the Pittsburgh Panthers of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The stadium opened in 2001 as Heinz Field, following the controlled implosion of the teams' previous home, Three Rivers Stadium.
3.1 km · American football stadium that is home to the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Panthers · Wikipedia - 05PNC Park
PNC Park is a baseball stadium on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the fifth location to serve as the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates.
2.2 km · baseball stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 06Carnegie Museum of Natural History
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896.
2.5 km · natural history museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 07Civic Arena
The Civic Arena, formerly the Civic Auditorium and later Mellon Arena, was a multi-purpose arena located in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It primarily served as the home to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the city's National Hockey League franchise, from 1967 to 2010.
1 km · arena in Pittsburgh · Wikipedia - 08Duquesne University
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, commonly shortened to Duquesne University, is a private Catholic research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, or Spiritans, founded the institution in 1878 as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost.
1.5 km · Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia - 09Carnegie Museum of Art
The Carnegie Museum of Art is an art museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The museum was originally known as the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute and was located at what became the Main Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
2.6 km · museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 10Fort Duquesne
Fort Duquesne was a fort established by the French in 1754, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. It was later taken over by the British, and later the Americans, and developed as Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
2.7 km · colonial fort at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hill District
- Airports
- Pittsburgh (PIT), 22 km · Cleveland Hopkins (CLE), 190 km · John Glenn Columbus (CMH), 252 km
- Stations
- Union Station, 1 km
- Cleveland → Hill District11 km · quickest by road, 31 min · $1–1.5
- Columbus → Hill District2990 km · quickest by road, 51h 11m · $280–385
- Dulles → Hill District19 km · quickest by road, 39 min · $2–2.5
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hill District
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hill District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inincluding stops in South Bend, Elkhart, Waterloo, Toledo, Sandusky, Elyria, Cleveland, Alliance, Pittsburgh, Connellsville, Cumberland, Martinsburg, Harpers Ferry, and Rockville.
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Next door to Hill District
Hill District is 1 km from Pittsburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Mount Oliverborough of Pennsylvania3.8 km
- Reserve Townshiptownship of Pennsylvania3.7 km
- Pittsburgh metropolitan areapopulous region around the city of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania1.6 km
- Oaklandneighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania2 km
- South Sideneighbourhood of Pittsburgh2.1 km
- Bluffneighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania1.3 km