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 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 15208 - {Homewood Station}
N 40° 27.100 W 079° 53.351
17T E 594192 N 4478482
The Homewood Station of the Pittsburgh Post Office is located at 566 Brushton Avenue in the Homewood Section of the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Waymark Code: WMKNH2
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 05/06/2014
Views: 4
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 15208 - {Homewood Station}
ABOUT THE COMMUNITY THIS POST OFFICE SERVES
The Homewood Station of the Pittsburgh Post Officee serves 11,054 individuals. There are a total of 4,624 households served , having an average home value of $111,000 and a median household income of $30,704 . These facts are provided in part by Zip-Codes.com.
Homewood was founded in 1832 by Judge William Wilkins (U.S. politician). It was later annexed by the city of Pittsburgh on December 1, 1884. Homewood in the beginning held mainly estates for the wealthy; Homewood was also the Pittsburgh residence of industrialists Andrew Carnegie and Thomas M. Carnegie until the late 1880s. Starting in the 1910s, Irish, Italian, German, and upper middle class black families started moving into Homewood due to the low-cost of housing. This caused Homewood to become more diverse. At first relations between the white and black residents of Homewood were quite good, it was not until later that tensions between the different ethnic groups became more strained.
In the 1950s the city claimed land in the Lower Hill District for the Civic Arena, and in the process, displaced 8,000 people. Most of them were less affluent blacks who then settled in rental apartments in Homewood, creating a large disparity in the number of blacks to whites in the region. This sudden influx of black residents caused a lot of the white middle class to move away from Homewood, creating a population shift from 22% black in 1950 to 66% black in 1960.[4] As a result of the area being predominantly African-American, it was greatly affected by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on 4 April 1968, whose murder caused riots in Homewood. The rioters caused great damage to local businesses, severely crippling the business district there.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Homewood’s identity and reputation were further degraded by the proliferation of gangs and crack cocaine. The Homewood-Brushton Revitalization and the Development Corporation put together a strong effort to rebuild the area, it accomplished this by building homes and helping to open new businesses.
ABOUT THE POST OFFICE
Standard Neighborhood Stand Alone location for the size of the community served.
POST OFFICE HOURS
Monday - Friday: 10:00am - 2:00pm
Saturday: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Type of structure:: Stand-Alone
re-enter Zip Code here:: 15208
Current Status:: Still in Use
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