Friendship is a small residential neighborhood in Pittsburgh's East End featuring stately detached Victorian homes on tree-lined streets. During the period of urban decline in the mid/late 20th century, many of these grand old homes were subdivided into apartments... and in some cases elaborate architectural features have been defaced. While Friendship is quite pleasant... there is a touch of faded glory present due to some of the more poorly maintained rental properties. In recent years there has been a trend toward increasing home ownership and rehabilitation of structures. Friendship has quick walkable access to business districts in Bloomfield, Shadyside, East Liberty... and the Penn Ave. corridor which straddles Friendship and Garfield.
The Sharp Edge is celebrated for its vast selection of Belgian beers
glass artists
a touch of SoMa
nice flag
this house was featured in the quirky romantic comedy "Smart People", released in April and starring Dennis Quaid, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page and Sarah Jessica Parker
Very pretty, as I expected it would be. Pittsburgh has so many beautiful residential areas. Gotta get out there one of these days. Haven't visited since the 80's
Excellent! I drove through Friendship the other day and was thinking it was due a thread.
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Excellent tour! This neighbourhood definitely has its own style of large beautiful colourful houses. Many of them have Victorian details, but the symmetrical shapes on some of them bring to mind colonial revival or what we'd call Edwardian architecture in Canada
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During my college years, I lived in Friendship... well actually it was East Liberty, but the apartment was sold to us as being in Friendship. I really enjoyed that area and with everything happening in the East End, I think the neighborhood will have a strong future.
Nice! I can actually say that I've walked those streets. My lady and I were staying downtown for a long weekend and took a bus down the busway, stopped in the (then brand new) Whole Foods for some snacks and walked through the neighborhood towards Bloomfield.
From what I remember the further east we were the more "up and coming" it was. Not to say that i thought it might've been rough. It didn't look like that at all. But It looked like there was a renewed sense of pride in some blocks closer to the Whole Foods and definitely lots of signs of reinvestment.
That whole Eastside/Oakland area is incredible. I'm a big fan.
I love Friendship. After my lease is up in S.Hill, and if I dont move out of town, I am renting a sweat pad over there. I want a place with a big section of a house, with a big porch. A Porch is key..............Trust me, a porch is key..And I am going to find it. I love Friendship, so close to Shadyside and Bloomfield, but mellow tree lined quiet streets. Can't beat the neighborhood.
Is friendship really this hidden? I go through it on Friendship Ave all the time. I have family "in Pittsburgh" who live in the Suburbs who never heard of it.
Last edited by JackStraw; Aug 8, 2008 at 12:19 PM.
Is friendship really this hidden? I go through it on Friendship Ave all the time. I have family "in Pittsburgh" who live in the Suburbs who never heard of it.
I live in the suburbs and I don't know where it is. And I only first heard of it like a year or two ago, being on this board.
The only reason I have Pittsburgh listed as my location is because no one would know where "Hopewell Township" is.
You live in cool suburbs though, so your ok. Just so you don't live in some place called "Roaming Mouse Estates" or something lame like that.
I just wonder why people miss this neighborhood. It is small in size, but it has some of the best houses out of the city. If you go to Shadyside then you are a few blocks from it.
You live in cool suburbs though, so your ok. Just so you don't live in some place called "Roaming Mouse Estates" or something lame like that.
I just wonder why people miss this neighborhood. It is small in size, but it has some of the best houses out of the city. If you go to Shadyside then you are a few blocks from it.
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