Forbes Avenue

Forbes Avenue is one of the longest streets in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a length of about ten miles (16 km) and is named for General John Forbes (1707–1759), whose expedition recaptured Fort Duquesne and who renamed the place Pittsburgh in 1758.

The westernmost terminus of Forbes Avenue lies at Stanwix Street in the downtown part of the city, then flows eastward past PPG Place, between the Courthouse and the City-County Building, past Duquesne University, through Soho, and Oakland where it passes the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. From Oakland, Forbes Avenue continues eastward past Carnegie Mellon University and Schenley Park, through the neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, and past Homewood Cemetery and Frick Park before it reaches its eastern terminus at Wilkinsburg.

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Forbes Avenue passes the side the Pittsburgh City-County Building.	5th Ave. in the Bluff neighborhood.	Truck on Forbes Avenue passing a ramp of the Birmingham Bridge in Soho.	Duquesne University's Forbes construction project, including the Sklar Skywalk, which passes over Forbes Avenue.
Forbes Avenue as it passes through the west end of the University of Pittsburgh's campus in Oakland.