This article is about the general region of Pittsburgh referred to as the North Side. For the specific neighborhood named Central Northside, see Central Northside (Pittsburgh).
North Side (sometimes written as Northside) refers to the region of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, located to the north of the Allegheny River and the Ohio River.[1]
The term "North Side" does not refer to a specific neighborhood, but rather to a disparate collection of contiguous neighborhoods.
The North Side has seven hills (Observatory, Monument, Troy, Spring, Seminary, Fineview, and Mt. Troy).
History and famous residents
In 1828, the borough of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, was incorporated where the North Side now stands. It had a population of 1,000. In 1880, Allegheny was incorporated as a city. The City of Allegheny was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907, and became known as the North Side.
Gus & Yia-Yia's Iceball Stand, selling fresh popcorn, peanuts, and old-fashioned iceballs (similar to snow cones) hand-scraped from a block of ice, has been in West Park since 1934. The "orange concession stand with a brightly colored umbrella" is something of an unofficial Pittsburgh landmark during the summer months.
A 20-acre Allis-Chalmers transformer factory provided as many as 2,600 jobs[2] to the area from 1897 until closing in the Summer of 1975.[3][4]