Liberty Avenue (Pittsburgh)

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Liberty Avenue (Pittsburgh) is a road starting in downtown Pittsburgh, just outside of Point State Park, Liberty Ave. goes through Downtown Pittsburgh, the Strip District, Bloomfield, and ends in Shadyside at its intersection with Centre Avenue and Aiken Avenue.

[edit] Strip District

Liberty Ave. is a main roadway through the Strip District. It is the home to many businesses, mostly offices and business to business service and product providers such as Grainger and Pittsburgh Cut Flowers. There are few retail establishments on Liberty Ave. in the Strip District.

[edit] Bloomfield

Liberty Ave. is the site of the main business district in Bloomfield. Liberty Ave is the home to West Penn Hospital[1] as well as many small store fronts.

[edit] Liberty Avenue in Popular Culture

A fictionalized version of Liberty Avenue featured prominently in the American version of the television program Queer as Folk. It was portrayed as the heart of a booming "gay village," with numerous gay clubs, cafes and shops. These scenes were filmed in Toronto's Church Street, which does contain a large number of gay and gay-friendly establishments. In reality, only a handful of gay businesses are located along Liberty Avenue between 8th and 11th Avenues. In addition, any QAF viewer familiar with either Pittsburgh or Toronto will recognize the red and black trolleys of the TTC occasionally passing in the background do not exist on Liberty Avenue. In one episode, the principal characters travel to Toronto for the beginning of the "Liberty Ride" and, while walking down Church Street remark to each other that it's eerily similar to Liberty Avenue back home.