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| - The City of Pittsburgh, City of Champions, Steel City, Blitzburgh, The 'Burgh, Sixburgh. The rivers, the mountains, the bridges, the views, the parks, the sports and sooo much more makes this an awesome city! Bragging rights allows us to boast that we have more bridges than Venice, Italy. Pgh is a smaller city, but has approximately 90 individual neighborhoods. Like beer and pizza?? Pgh has 12 bars and 7 pizza parlors per every 10,000 residents, leading the country in bars and second in pizza.
What I love about Pittsburgh are the many parks, both in city and surrounding county and state parks. Our vast topography allows you to explore the city from many different aspects. This past fall I took a river boat tour with my visiting family on the Gateway Clipper Fleet. I had been on their boats in the past, but this was my first river tour with them. I enjoyed it as well as my family did, but I've been on better boat tours in other cities. I like the new modern pay stations replacing the old style parking meters.
What I kind of don't like is how we are becoming such a bike friendly town. Have nothing against the people who like to navigate this way, but bike lanes and such are a pain with our already narrow city streets. The rent-a-bike stations taking up parking spots are also annoying to me. However, I do like the bike/walking trails, such as the Great Allegheny Passage that takes you from Pgh to Washington, DC.
Being a native of this city, I'm proud of the changes I've seen growing up here. We need to give thanks to former mayor Murphy who was instrumental in the early economic development that resulted in the modern Pgh we know today. He brought us much needed new sports venues which has made the North Shore one of the best areas in the city. Also, a new convention center and more. Pgh went bankrupt because of these improvements, but it was well worth it!!
You gotta love our rich sports history. The 5x World Series winning Pirates are arguably the hottest team in baseball right now with one of the best ball parks in the MLB. The 3x Stanley Cup champion Penguins have the best arena in the NHL. The 6x Superbowl champion Steelers repuation speaks for itself!! Hopefully we will host SB57 here in our city. To host a SB game, a city must have some 70,000 or so hotel rooms within an hour drive from the venue. With so many new hotels being built around the city, let's hope our city gets that honor!!
Downtown is small and lacks a great shopping mall like other major cities. Some years ago, there wasn't much living downtown, now is home to many residents in the new apt complexes recently built or renovated from old buildings. Lots of new trendy places to eat around town. I dont gamble, but Rivers Casino is a cool place to visit. Amazing urban redevelopment happening around East Liberty and other areas. No wonder why this city has topped the "Most Livable" list many times. I can go on, but that's enough for now. Hope you enjoy all this city has to offer!
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