Aerial view of Crosstown Boulevard

1963/1965

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Aerial view of Crosstown Boulevard
  • Title
  • Aerial view of Crosstown Boulevard
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B010.F20.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B010.F20.I01
  • Description
  • Constructed in the early 1960s at the time when Pittsburgh's Renaissance I was underway in the Golden Triangle, Interstate 579 was originally planned by Robert Moses, who devised a plan for Pittsburgh in 1939 that included the revitalization of Crosstown Boulevard. The first section of the project to be built was from the Boulevard of the Allies to Centre Avenue. This opened to traffic in 1962 and the section from Centre Avenue to Bigelow Boulevard opened in 1964. For the next two decades, this would be the only open section of the Crosstown Boulevard. The long-range plans called for a connection from the end at Bigelow Boulevard to the proposed I-79 on the North Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh, but would remain shelved until the 1980s.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Crosstown Boulevard (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Interstate 579.
    Aerial views--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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