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Squirrel Hill is a large residential neighborhood in the east end of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. As of the census of 2000, there were 26,425 people, 12,030 households, and 6,325 families residing in the 15217 ZIP code, which covers approximately the same region as the City of Pittsburgh's delineation of Squirrel Hill.
Squirrel Hill is bordered on the west by Oakland and Schenley Park, on the north by Shadyside and Point Breeze, on the east by Frick Park, and on the south by Greenfield and the Monongahela River.
Education
Squirrel Hill is located in the Pittsburgh School District. The public high school for the neighborhood is Allderdice High School. Squirrel Hill is also home to Chatham College and parts of the Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh campus (which also is partly in Oakland).
Religion
Squirrel Hill has had a large Jewish population since the 1920s, when Jews began to move to the neighborhood in large numbers from Oakland and the Hill District. According to a 2002 study by the United Jewish Federation, 33% of the Jewish population of greater Pittsburgh lives in Squirrel Hill and another 14% in the surrounding areaNorth America." Squirrel Hill contains three Jewish day schools, catering to the Lubavich, Orthodox, and Conservative movements. There are over twenty synagogues, many with their own websites ***." target="_blank" >The Jewish community also offers three restaurants, a [http://jccpgh.org/ Jewish Community Center and an annual festival. It is estimated that one-fifth of the population of Squirrel Hill is Jewish.
History
See History of Squirrel Hill.
Organizations
Squirrel Hill is also home to The Pittsburgh Golf Club, an exclusive organization founded in 1896 by "a group of prominent citizens of Pittsburgh's East End"(member handbook). The club borders Schenley Park, Murdoch Farms, and Carnegie Mellon University. The membership includes some of Pittsburgh's elite: among them, Mark Nordenberg (Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh), Henry Hillman (President of Hillman Enterprises), Nate Meyers (Author & CEO of LB Enterprises), and Paul O'Neill (briefly George W. Bush's Secretary of the Treasury).
Points of interest
See also
External links
- City of Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill page
- Squirrel Hill Historical Society
- Interactive Pittsburgh Neighborhoods Map
- Squirrel Hill at Wikitravel
- Squirrel Hill Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
- Taylor Allderdice High School
References
"Squirrel Hill"