Shadyside (Pittsburgh)

Template:Infobox Pittsburgh neighborhood Shadyside is a neighborhood in the East End of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It has zip codes of both 15232 and 15206, and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by the council member for District 8 (East Central Neighborhoods). The nomenclature Shadyside is drawn from the 19th century Pennsylvania Railroad station in the area, named for its unique shady lanes.

Overview

Shadyside is home to many of the more upscale stores and boutiques in Pittsburgh including Moda, Coach, Williams-Sonoma, and White House Black Market. In Shadyside, businesses (retail & restaurants) are located along three corridors: Walnut Street, Ellsworth Avenue and S. Highland at Centre Avenue. Given the compact nature of this historic residential neighborhood, the three business corridors are all within walking distance of one another.

Shadyside is also home to international ticketing company ShowClix. Another neighborhood institution is Shadyside Hospital, a member of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Additionally, Chatham University is located just across the northern edge of the neighborhood in Squirrel Hill, along with Pittsburgh Center for the Arts which is also a part of Mellon Park.

Walnut Street

On Walnut Street, there are more stores that belong to national chains, including Gap (along with BabyGap, GapKids and GapBody), Apple, J.Crew, American Apparel, Chico's, Victoria's Secret, Banana Republic, Talbots Coach, and United Colors of Benetton. Local restaurants include Jitters, Cappy's, Doc's, William Penn Tavern, and Pamela's. Though years ago Walnut Street used to have only independent, artistic and high fashion clothing stores, this trend has changed over the years. However, these unique boutiques still reside in Shadyside, and give the area a homey and old-fashioned impression. Owners of these stores are often people who have lived in Shadyside for a decent amount of time and are dedicated to the area.

The Jam on Walnut is a summer concert series that features local and regional music concerts. The concerts are held on the last Saturday of each summer month on the corner of Bellefonte and Walnut Street. Proceeds from beer sales go to Cystic Fibrosis.

Ellsworth Avenue

Ellsworth Avenue tends to have smaller locally-owned businesses, including Eons (a vintage store), Gallerie Chiz (an art gallery), Hip'tique (a women's boutique) and beauty salons such as 5804, Capristo salon and Mikel's. Ellsworth has a number of restaurants such as The Elbow Room, Bites and Brews, Umi, Fajita Grill, and Soba. Ellsworth also features two of Pittsburghs' gay and gay friendly bars, Spin and 5801.

S. Highland Avenue

S. Highland Avenue features several upscale design and furniture stores, including Weiss House, Arhaus and Pennhollows. Local restaurants include Casbah, Buffalo Blues, Typhoon and Oh Yeah! Ice Cream & Coffee Co. Also on S. Highland, is the entrance to the EastSide retail complex, which features Whole Foods, Wine and Spirits, Borders Books, Starbucks Coffee and Eva Szabo Spa, as well as local restaurants, Dinette and Plum. Shadyside also features boutique Inns and Hotels like Shadyside Inn Suites, The Inns On Negley, and Sunnyledge

Residential Shadyside

Since the 1920s, residential Shadyside has been home to a mix of affluent families, young professionals, artists, musicians, students, and apartment dwellers. The residential areas of the neighborhood include well-maintained Victorian mansions along with modern apartments and condominiums. The neighborhood has a compact layout, which prevents most houses from having garages. Public transportation is available via Port Authority bus system; express busway stops are conveniently located in the neighborhood on Negley Avenue (between Ellsworth and Centre avenues) and on Ellsworth Avenue (at Shady Avenue).

Schools

The Winchester Thurston School and The Ellis School on Fifth Avenue are Pittsburgh's only all-girl pre-K–12. These schools are highly prestigious and give Shadyside a respectful reputation.

Shadyside Action Coalition

The Shadyside Action Coalition, known colloquially as SAC, is a community organization. This not-for-profit organization was formed in 1973 . According to their website, their goals are to "preserve values and laws of this community"; the issues they have choosen to focus on are "neighborhood safety, planning and zoning, parking, quality of life, preserving the character of the community, and being activiely involved witht he future development of our community" . Composed of 34 organizations, book clubs, and churches, SAC has "sought to be the instrument through which Shadyside could control its own destiny, mainly by generating sufficient power to influence forces such as government planners, larger property investors, banks, and school boards" .

Within the larger Shadyside Action Coalition, there are six different committees: community netwroking, fundraising, historic Shadyside, membershio, public safety, and zoning Community networking stated goal is to "maintian collaboartive relationships with adjacent community groups to work on shared proejcts along borders" . They are invlved with liaisons in many other neighborhoods arounf Pittsburgh. These neighborhoods include East Liberty, North Point Breeze, South Point Breeze, Bloomfield, Friendship, Oakland, and Squirrel Hill. Porjects that are being worked on as of 2010 are the Bauam Centre Initiative and Bakery Row.

The Baum Centre Initiative is a project with the goal of "developing a cohesive, renewed, and thriving Baum-Center Corridor". The Baum-Centre Corridor is a section of UPMC Shadyside, and there has been much debate surronding this project. Concerns include whether this project constitutes an expansion of UPMC Shadyside or if it is a transformation of the nuilding that is already there. The project has encountered some legal and legislative problems .

Bakery Row is a collaborative effort with East Liberty Development Inc. and SAC to develop the "Bakery Row" section of Penn Ave. Seven districts converge at Bakery Row: East Liberty. Homewood, Nothr Point Breeze, South Point Breeze, Squirrel Hill, SHadyside, amd Larimer. Plans include development of Penn and Shady, the resurrection of an East Liberty Station, the reopening of the Reizenstein Middle School, redevelopment of buildings in "Bakery Square" , creating more pedestrian-friendly transportation, as well as more "transit-oriented" transportation. Projects the community networking committee has worked on include the Pedsetrian Bridge, the DOc Economou project, UPMC's Cromisa halfway house, CHipotle, Fidelity Bank on Centre, Hertz on Baum and Bobby Rahal's on Baum .

Gallery

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  Sellers House, built in 1858, at 400 Shady Avenue.
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  Shadyside Presbyterian Church, built in 1889, at 5121 Westminster Place (at the corner of Amberson Avenue and Westminster Place).
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  Bindley Hardware Company Building, built in 1903, at 401 Amberson Avenue.
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  Rodef Shalom Temple, built in 1906, at 4905 5th Avenue.
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  Highland Towers Apartments, built in 1913, at 340 South Highland Avenue.
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  Negley-Gwinner-Harter House, built in 1870 and 1871, at 5061 Fifth Avenue.
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  Moreland-Hoffstot House, built in 1914, at 5057 Fifth Avenue.
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  Hunt Armory, built in 1916, at 324 Emerson Street.
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  Harvey Childs House, built in 1896, at 718 Devonshire Street.
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  Sunnyledge, built in 1886, at 5124 Fifth Avenue.
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  Mellon Park, established in 1943, at the corner of Fifth and Shady Avenues.
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  Shadyside

External links

• Interactive Pittsburgh Neighborhoods Map
• Shadyside Action Coalition
• ThinkShadyside.com
• Free Wireless Shadyside

See also

• List of Pittsburgh neighborhoods