Point Breeze, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Point Breeze is a largely residential neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
It is adjacent to the neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, and is nearby the neighborhoods of Homewood and Shadyside. Like nearby Squirrel Hill it boasts a large Jewish population, and contributes to a high percentage of students enrolled in Taylor Allderdice High School.
The most prominent feature of Point Breeze is Henry Clay Frick's Clayton, which is a part of the five-acre Frick Art & Historical Center. Nearby is St. Bede School, a Catholic school. It is also the home to a popular Pittsburgh Public Schools elementary school, Linden Academy, and Westinghouse Park.
Point Breeze's claim to literary fame is due to writers Annie Dillard and John Edgar Wideman. Pulitzer Prize winner Dillard's popular memoir, An American Childhood, is set in Point Breeze in the 1950s. Both of Wideman's memoirs, Brothers and Keepers and Hoop Roots, use Westinghouse Park as a setting, as well as in his fictional Homewood Trilogy.
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- Toker, Franklin (1986, 1994). Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-5434-6.
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