Cultural Life
Squirrel Hill's business area along Forbes and Murray avenues is known as "up street" (a contraction of "up the street") to several generations of children who have grown up the area over the past 40 years.
There is a branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill, in the corner of Forbes and Murray. Across the street are located the main offices of Vivisimo, a discovery and navigation software company now part of IBM.
The Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition (SHUC) is an organization whose purpose is to preserve and maintain Pittsburgh's 14th Ward. Though it was originally created as a task force of the United Jewish Federation, it eventually outgrew its Jewish origins and was eventually incorporated in 1972. The SHUC prints a free quaterly publication, the Squirrel Hill Magazine.
Squirrel Hill is also home to the Church of the Redeemer, an inclusive and progressive Episcopal church.
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