Pittsburgh
— — the river city the bridges still hold together.
Not only on a wall.
“Three rivers meet at the Point — the Allegheny coming south, the Monongahela coming north, and the Ohio starting west from there. The skyline rises on the wedge between them. From the Duquesne Incline at dusk the city counts its bridges, 446 of them, more than any other city in the world.
Pittsburgh, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Pittsburgh sits at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, which join at Point State Park to form the Ohio. The city covers 58 square miles in southwestern Pennsylvania and is home to roughly 303,000 people, with 2.4 million across the metropolitan region. It holds 446 bridges — more than any other city in the world — and 90 distinct neighborhoods spread across the hills carved by the rivers. The skyline rises on the Golden Triangle, the wedge of land at the Point, best read from Mount Washington across the Monongahela, reached by the Duquesne Incline of 1877.
The three rivers define the city. The Allegheny runs 325 miles down from north-central Pennsylvania, the Monongahela rises 130 miles south in West Virginia, and the Ohio departs the Point westward toward the Mississippi. The water carved the hills the neighborhoods now sit on. The 446 bridges cross these rivers in every register — the three yellow Sister Bridges over the Allegheny named for Roberto Clemente, Andy Warhol, and Rachel Carson, the steel-truss Smithfield Street Bridge of 1883, the Fort Pitt Bridge feeding the tunnel into downtown. Riverwalks now run all three banks.
The Duquesne Incline, opened in 1877, climbs 400 feet up Mount Washington in two minutes and runs daily from 5:30 a.m. to 12:45 a.m. The view from the top deck takes in the Point, the Golden Triangle, and all three rivers in a single frame. The Andy Warhol Museum sits two blocks north of the Andy Warhol Bridge in the North Shore. Point State Park hosts a 150-foot fountain at the wedge's tip, running April through October. The Strip District opens early for produce, pierogi, and the morning fish trucks.