Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar

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Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar is a neighbourhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is located in the northeastern section of city on the Allegheny River.

Lincoln and Lemington were former neighbourhoods in the northeastern section of the city. Bordered by Belmar to the east, Homewood to the south, Larimer to the west and Penn Hills to the north, this is an area hidden in the hills of the city. It is a predominantly black neighbourhood that was once a white neighbourhood back in the early 1920s and '30s. Belmar was a neighbourhood atop a steep hill that overlooks the city on Tilden Street.