Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania {Wylie Station} - 15219-3384
N 40° 26.574 W 079° 58.834
17T E 586454 N 4477414
The Wylie Station Post Office is located at 415 Dinwiddie Street in the Hill District of Pittsbugh City, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Waymark Code: WMMCK6
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 08/31/2014
Views: 3
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania {Wylie Station} - 15219-3384
ABOUT THE COMMUNITY THIS POST OFFICE SERVES
About 40 percent of the Hill District's residents live below poverty level, and the vast majority of residents are black or African American; about 6 percent of the population is white.
Many residents view a major turning point in the neighborhood's history as the 1960s, when the city of Pittsburgh displaced about 8000 residents and 400 businesses in the Lower Hill to build the Civic Arena. The displaced people moved into the East Liberty and Homewood-Brushton neighborhoods, causing (white & black) middle-class families to flee these areas.
Recent initiatives have aimed to revitalize the area, which has struggled for decades with varying levels of dilapidation and crime.
A project to open a new grocery store — the neighborhood lacked one for 30 years — came to fruition in late 2013. The YMCA built a $9 million branch in the neighborhood, complete with a rooftop garden. A group of investors have gathered to restore the New Granada Theater, a historic jazz club where Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington once performed. Local college Duquesne University opened a new pharmacy in the neighborhood in December 2010, the first university-operated community pharmacy in the US.
ABOUT THE POST OFFICE
The Post Office is in a combined building w/ a bank, the university pharmacy and a handful of other selected businesses.
POST OFFICE HOURS
Monday - Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.; 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Type of structure:: Stand-Alone
re-enter Zip Code here:: 15219-3384
Current Status:: Still in Use
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