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3 unusual facts about Hill District


Crawford Square

The development is part of the larger Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh and is directly adjacent to Downtown Pittsburgh.

Dakota Staton

Later she performed regularly in the Hill District, a jazz hotspot, as a vocalist with the Joe Westray Orchestra, a popular Pittsburgh orchestra.

Tuberculosis Hospital of Pittsburgh

The Tuberculosis Hospital of Pittsburgh in the Bedford Dwellings neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a complex of eight buildings, with the first building completed in 1912.


African-American neighborhood

Playwright August Wilson used the term "ghetto" in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1984) and Fences (1987), both of which draw upon the author’s experience growing up in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, first a neighborhood of early European immigrants, then a black ghetto.


see also

Global Film Initiative

In 2004, it entered into a partnership with First Run Features for distribution of all films in the Global Lens Film Series, and in 2006 it moved its offices from the West Village of New York to the Potrero Hill district of San Francisco, California (USA).

Mark Hopkins

Mark Hopkins Hotel San Francisco, a luxury hotel in the Nob Hill district of San Francisco, California