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Pittsburgh, 4 Years Worth

This will be my thread on photos of the city of Pittsburgh, PA USA. I will be here until 2013 for college (U of Pittsburgh), so this will be my photo thread.

So I begin with this, welcome to Pittsburgh.



For today, I will start with some photos of the University of Pittsburgh campus.

The Cathedral of Learning, sticking out behind the Towers


The Towers, triplet dorm buildings. After staying in one during my orientation, I am glad that I do not live in them, despite them being my top choice for living. They have thin walls (so it seems to me). During my night in them, there was construction going on nonstop all night, and it was very loud.


The Peterson Events Center:


Buildings on Fifth Ave on campus:


Part of the university's medical center, UPMC:


Memorial Hall, a space for performances:
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Wow, Sorry. Please move this to the N-Z photo section!
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Cool! Looks like a nice campus. Good luck in university!
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Wow, Sorry. Please move this to the N-Z photo section!
Why bother? Aittsburgh looks fantastic here.
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Good call on the University of Pittsburgh!~ I think it's a great value. Good school for affordable cost and it's urban location means you will never be bored in your 4 yrs. Good luck.
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I concur with PA Pride. Hail to Pitt!

Look forward to seeing more of your stuff, thanks.
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Thank you all, I have some more I will upload tomorrow.
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Old Posted Sep 7, 2009, 6:36 PM
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Here are some night photos, I will retry them next year once I get a camera that can take night photos better (hopefully a nice compact Panasonic with Son'ys new low light sensor):



Waiting for the bus late Sunday night. Downtown is a ghost town after the work day ends, and on the weekends is empty and is an urban paradise devoid of people:



The Skyline from the Smithfield Street Bridge


Station Square


A creepy walkway next to some street


Some deer I encountered at a light rail station
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Great University!! One of the most urban in the country too. Go PITT football and basketball too.
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It's interesting how people have the perception of Downtown Pittsburgh as being a "ghost town" after hours... Sunday night of Labor Day Weekend is certainly the deadest time one could be there... the southern half of Downtown (featured in your photos) empties out as it's rather devoid of after-hours-oriented businesses... but the Cultural District has become increasingly lively in the evenings... it's a work in progress and has certainly improved in recent years...

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It's interesting how people have the perception of Downtown Pittsburgh as being a "ghost town" after hours... Sunday night is certainly the deadest time one could be there... the southern half of Downtown (featured in your photos) empties out as it's rather devoid of after-hours-oriented businesses... but the Cultural District has become increasingly lively in the evenings... it's a work in progress and has certainly improved in recent years...
Well from what I saw in the business district, it was empty. All the stores where closed and the largest crowds I saw were at bus stops.
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Well from what I saw in the business district, it was empty. All the stores where closed and the largest crowds I saw were at bus stops.
seriously man, check out downtown on a couple more occasions such as some weeknights like friday; Or any of the many days that downtown activities are planned for thyos who wish to participate.
Some nights are really breathtaking with huge traffic jams of taxis and pedestrian traffic, not stampeding the hockey game but descending upon the cultural ditrict with plays, performaces & live music, as well as all the occompanying high end eateries.
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seriously man, check out downtown on a couple more occasions such as some weeknights like friday; Or any of the many days that downtown activities are planned for thyos who wish to participate.
Some nights are really breathtaking with huge traffic jams of taxis and pedestrian traffic, not stampeding the hockey game but descending upon the cultural ditrict with plays, performaces & live music, as well as all the occompanying high end eateries.
Lol yeah, like during any fireworks night or during the festivals. It took me 45 minutes to go 1 mile on the 4th of July at 11pm. The streets and sidewalks were as busy as Manhattan, so yeah it does have its moments.
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I don't want to fight, that already happened with my other thread where I said the same thing about downtown St. Louis.
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I don't want to fight, that already happened with my other thread where I said the same thing about downtown St. Louis.
Haha, none of us here to fight, they're just giving suggestions. Since you're into photography you may also want to check out one of the gallery crawls and photo walks that go on downtown, and in other neighborhoods. Here's a link to a Flickr group that hosts a lot of them, and advertises for other groups holding them.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/pittsburgh/
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Great shots!
I actually went to Pitt for a year before leaving for (what I considered to be) greener pastures. You're lucky to be living somewhere besides the towers. They're nice from the outside, but pretty awful on the inside. Hope your time at Pitt goes better than mine did!
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Not too long ago I went downtown and walked along one of the rivers. It was a not great out kind of rainy and gray.





The Pirates play here:










These was taken on a different day:



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The skyline:


The Convention Center:


Pittsburgh is ready to welcome the world for G20:










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Nice additions, thanks I can't believe the mods haven't moved this thing yet. Mods, please move
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There, I moved it.
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