Pittsburgh contains dozens of cozy, hilly streetscapes that might have modeled the establishing shot for Mister Rogers Neighborhood, but it’s telling that Squirrel Hill is where the real-life Fred Rogers made his home. Squirrel Hill owes its easygoing prosperity to the fact that it wasn’t revived – most of its liberal, middle-class denizens never abandoned it. A center for Pittsburgh’s Jewish community, Squirrel Hill has proved both adaptable and constant. Malls can’t seem to displace Murray Avenue, anchored by institutions like Kazansky’s Deli, Jerry’s Records and Gullifty’s restaurant. Besides restaurants and specialty shops, neighborhood services remain: groceries, a drugstore, a hardware store, a newly renovated library branch and two neighborhood movie houses. Though a quintessential family neighborhood, Squirrel Hill offers its long-toiling grad students up-to-date conveniences and, in coffeehouses like the lauded 61C Café, an indulgently cosmopolitan home base for the city’s hyperactive teenage romances. The idyll continues on Squirrel Hill’s leafy residential streets, as its solid brick houses merge with Schenley Park to the west and Frick to the east.

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