- Day 1: Windgap
- Day 2: Brookline
- Day 3: East Allegheny/Fineview Walk
- Day 4: Allentown/Knoxville Walk
- Day 5: East Liberty/Shadyside
- Day 6: Mount Washington/Duquesne Heights
- Day 7: Regent Square Walk
- Day 8: Polish Hill
- Day 9: Esplen
- Day 10: Brighton Heights/Woods Run
- Day 11: Brighton Heights
- Day 12: Middle Hill/Bedford Dwellings
- Day 13: North Shore/Allegheny Center/East Allegheny
- Day 14: South Side Flats
- Day 15: Crafton Heights
- Day 16: Beechview
- Day 17: Squirrel Hill
- Day 18: Highland Park
- Day 19: Greenfield
- Day 20: Garfield/East Liberty
- Day 21: East Liberty/Larimer
- Day 22: Troy Hill
- Day 23: Central Lawrenceville
- Day 24: Elliott
- Day 25: Central Northside/Mexican War Streets
- Day 26: South Oakland
- Day 27: Spring Hill-City View
- Day 28: Perry North
- Day 29: Westwood & East Carnegie
- Day 30: Fineview
- Day 31: Chateau/Manchester
- Day 32: South Side Flats
- Day 33: Hazelwood
- Day 34: Perry North/Brighton Heights (1000th Street!)
- Day 35: Lawrenceville/Stanton Heights
- Day 36: Morningside/Highland Park
- Day 37: Lower Lawrenceville/Bloomfield
- Day 38: Squirrel Hill South and Point Breeze
- Day 39: Brighton Heights
- Day 40: Stanton Heights
- Day 41: Brookline
- Day 42: Mount Oliver and St. Clair
- Day 43: Knoxville and Bon Air
- Day 44: South Side Slopes
- Day 45: Bloomfield and Friendship
- Day 46: Banksville
- Day 47: Perry North/South
- Day 48: Point Breeze/Squirrel Hill North
- Day 49: Duquesne Heights
- Day 50: Downtown
- Day 51: West Oakland/Terrace Village/Uptown/Crawford-Roberts
- Day 52: Greenfield/Four Mile Run
- Day 53: South Side Flats/Slopes & Arlington/Heights
- 54: Brookline
- 55: Sheraden & Windgap
- 56: Oakland (Central, West, North)
- 57: Washington’s Landing (Troy Hill)
- 58: South Shore, North Shore, Golden Triangle
- 59: Overbrook & Carrick
- 60: Shadyside & Bloomfield
- 61: Manchester, California-Kirkbride & Marshall-Shadeland
- 62: Strip District, Polish Hill and a teeny tiny part of Lower Lawrenceville
- 63: West End & Elliott
- 64: Morningside, Stanton Heights & Highland Park
- 65: South Shore, The Bluff, Crawford-Roberts, SS Flats
- 66: Duquesne Heights, Beechview & Mt. Washington
- 67: Upper Hill, North Oakland, Terrace Village, Middle Hill & Bedford Dwellings
- 67: Troy Hill, Spring Garden, Northview Heights, Spring Hill-City View, and East Allegheny
- 68: Beechview & Mount Washington
- 69: Spring Garden, Spring Hill-City View & East Allegheny
- 70: Carrick
- 71: Too many neighborhoods to count or the one where I start naming blog posts
- 72: All Creatures, Fake and Real
- 73: I’m glad we didn’t end up on the news
- 74: Third Time’s a Charm
- 75: A tree tried to murder me and I almost killed Amy. Again.
- 76: Little Walk on the Urban Prairie
- 77: Closed Roads and Old Mines/Mills
- 78: Big Dog, Big Jim’s, Big Rain
- 79: RING! RING! Go Alarms and Phones. (East End)
- 80: cARTwheels
- 81: Treasure and Gator Hunting (Carrick)
- 82: All the Small Things. Don’t even Blink.
- 83: I’m sorry for what I said when I was hungry.
- 84: Let’s Make a Dill, or Two.
- 85: Nothing is particularly hard if you break it down into small jobs.
- 86: Runnin’ out of these streets
- 87: Banksville Twofer
- 88: Pokemon to the rescue!
- 89: Is this a Wonkavator?
- 90: Golden Girls and Gators
- 91: Fruit of Plenty
- 92: It’s in the Stars
- 93: Shopping Carts in the Wild!
- 94: Mixed Messages (Beechview)
- 95: Snakes, Sloths, and Sticky Burs (Northside)
- 96: Spider Webs, Kitty Hair, & Salt
- 97: Say it, don’t spray it. (Mt. Washington/Allentown)
- 98: Dickens has Chickens (West End, Elliott, Crafton Heights)
- 99: Buggies, Toilets, and Beeping (East Liberty, Larimer, Lincoln-Lemington)
- 100th Post! (Squirrel Hill North/South)
- 101: The world is moving on (Terrace Village/Crawford-Roberts)
Unique Streets: 27
Miles Walked: 3.02
Street Names: Brighton, Parviss, Benton, Goe, No Name 1, Atkins, Wapello, W. Point, Harvard, Hilliard, Cornell, Lois, No Name 2, Aquatic, Wickshire, Purdue, Pemberton, Stanford, Campus, Diploma, Acacia, Simen, Corona, Etola, Gerber, No Name 3, Viruth
I decided to walk in Brighton Heights two days in a row. This time, I started up the hill a bit on Brighton Road. I started walking up and quickly found a dead end street called W. Point Avenue. I looked on Google Maps and surmised that there might be a paper street at the end of it.

Like most “streets” of this kind, it started as an old asphalt pathway into the woods. I went down and quickly realized that if it did used to be a street, something or someone worked very hard to make it not so. The only beings that appeared to have used this “path” in the last few years were deer and they left their droppings all over it. The way to go quickly turned into a steep forest floor littered with fallen tree branches and piles of leaves.
Huffing and puffing I made my way up the hill only to realize at the top that the only way out of the woods was through someone’s backyard. OOOOOPS! I’d already invested so much sweat equity into this bad decision that I wasn’t going back. I walked quickly to Harvard circle and hoped no one saw me.
Later I looked at this area on the 1923 G. M. Hopkins map and saw that W. Point did used to extend further but never connected to Harvard Circle.
In the above comparison you can also see that Harvard circle used to boast a City Playground. Now it’s just a densely forested parklet.
I walked down more streets with a collegiate theme and made my way across to Corona where houses perched precariously above Brighton Road. While most houses were modest, a few stood out on Etola and Gerber.

I walked back towards my car and through the Vietnam War Memorial Park. Looks like it used to be the World War Memorial Park.
I could now see my car but couldn’t pass up walking down one more street. I took a left on Benton Road and walked down an alley next to Pittsburgh Fish and Chicken. It was literally mud.

I don’t think it was ever paved and I certainly didn’t see any street signs. Still, there were garages on it. This was the third No Name street I encountered on this walk. Someone needs to get to work naming them! And I need to clean my shoes!

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