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Originally Posted by Docere
Squirrel Hill has, I believe, been Pittsburgh's main Jewish area since the 1920s. It's interesting that it held out for so long.
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In terms of built structure Squirrel Hill is very much akin to Cleveland's eastern suburbs. It was built out just after the streetcar period, with most of the neighborhood essentially 1920s automotive suburbia with significant denser multifamily mixed in.
Squirrel Hill never went into decline, and never had any white flight. It also maintains the best neighborhood public schools in the city's school district. The neighborhood was pretty much steadily comprised of a mix of Jews, wealthy professionals, and student renters. In the last 15 years the explosion of Asian students at CMU (and Pitt at the grad level) has shifted the neighborhood demographics considerably in the multifamily zones, but otherwise the neighborhood has changed little.