Pleasant Ridge, Cincinnati

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Pleasant Ridge is a quaint, diverse, mostly gaslight residential neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio with a small business district occupied largely by long-standing, independent businesses. Pleasant Ridge is home to a large concentration of Cincinnati's Irish population^{[citation needed]} and plays host to the regions largest Saint Patrick's Day celebration. It is also home to a large Jewish population, one of the largest in Cincinnati, with several synagogues and Jewish education centers.

In recent years Pleasant Ridge has been abutted by development in the unzoned Columbia Township that has seen the addition of several retailers that have made the area congested with traffic that its infrastructure was not designed to deal with. In 2005 plans were put in place by Hamilton County to alleviate much of this.

Pleasant Ridge has a library, three elementary schools and a community center whose municipal swim team has won multiple Cincinnati City Championship meets throughout the years.

The neighborhood is bordered by Golf Manor, Columbia Township, Norwood, Kennedy Heights and Oakley.