

SQUIRREL HILL PROFESSIONAL
We look forward to your next visit to CLP – Squirrel Hill.Ĭonveniently located at the corner of Murray & Forbes, this location offers a modern, open space packed with popular reading materials, excellent programs and professional resources for businesses. Guests can enjoy a variety of programming for all ages, like storytimes, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) programming, Teen Time, Book Discussion Groups and several language programs. The children’s section has nine computers with tables and chairs to accommodate young Library users. Services include Medical, OB/GYN, and Behavioral Health, all provided by the same smiling faces you recognize from our main office in Squirrel Hill. This location allows us to provide the same high quality preventive care to our patients located in the South Hills. To meet the information needs of the community, CLP – Squirrel Hill is open seven days a week and provides 30 desktop and 17 laptop computers for adult patrons. Our Brentwood Towne Square location has been open since 2016.


Early settler John Turner, half-brother of renegade Simon Girty, survived capture by Native Americans and experienced firsthand the change from dangerous wilderness to established farming community. Additionally, there are places for our community to gather and connect in spacious meeting rooms or the lovely enclosed garden area. Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood began on the frontier of western Pennsylvania 250 years ago and developed into a vibrant urban community. This large neighborhood location offers a variety of areas for reading, studying and working, including four comfy reading nooks built into the Library’s outside wall. All proceeds benefit the Neill Log House Restoration. Nowadays Squirrel Hill is a thriving neighborhood in the eastern part of Pittsburgh. This renovation added an additional 7,000 square feet, creating a comfortable, urban, loft-style library overlooking the business district. Three days of events in October celebrating the life and art of Henry Koerner. This short history of Squirrel Hill, originally written in 2003 by the late Mark Iskovitz, Vice President of the Squirrel Hill Historical Society, was revised and updated in 2015 and again in March 2016 by current Vice-President Helen Wilson. Apartment rent in Squirrel Hill North has increased by 3.0 in the past year. Home Complete Streets Squirrel Hill Connector Overview Bartlett St and Beacon St are City-owned streets between Schenley Park and Frick Park. In February of 2004 the Library was closed for a $4.4 million renovation, reopening to the public in 2005. As of September 2022, the average apartment rent in Squirrel Hill North is 924 for a studio, 1,119 for one bedroom, 1,540 for two bedrooms, and 2,157 for three bedrooms. The Squirrel Hill East-West Connector is a neighborway, which will improve the connection for bicyclists and pedestrians between Schenley Park to Frick Park. Forbes Street offers visitors block after block of boutique shopping, with local businesses - like Classic Lines, a used bookstore opened by a former librarian - moving into spaces left by departing mega-chains like Barnes and Noble and Panera.Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Squirrel Hill was built in 1972.

Murray Avenue is a dining hotspot, home to restaurants from a variety of global cultures and three of Pittsburgh’s best pizzerias (Napoli, Aiello’s, and Mineo’s). In addition to its vibrant cultural heritage, the area’s proximity to two major universities - Chatham and Carnegie Mellon - makes it one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Pittsburgh. Historically, Squirrel Hill is the heart of Pittsburgh’s thriving Jewish community and is home to numerous synagogues, Pittsburgh’s Jewish Community Center, and an eruv, a consecrated wall behind which Orthodox Jews can perform certain activities on the Sabbath. There might be only one species of squirrel here - North American Gray - but in every other respect, Squirrel Hill is an incredibly diverse neighborhood.
