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Brookline Information
The Brookline section of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is located a
few miles south of Downtown in the South Hills section. It is within the 4th
City Council District, 19th and 32nd Wards of the city.
Brookline is currently the second largest of Pittsburgh's neighborhoods.
Brookline was founded as part of West Liberty Borough (annexed into Pittsburgh
in 1908) and was originally named for and populated by settlers from Brookline,
Massachusetts. The area started as mainly farmland as well as a mining
community.
The area experienced a downturn in population in the 1970's which continued
until the late 1990s. In more recent history, Brookline has enjoyed a major
rebound mainly due to its status as a very suburban area within the city limits.
The area is populated largely (anecdotally) by city police officers mainly due
to the requirement that Pittsburgh city police officers live within the city
limits. The area is also being rapidly populated by young professionals and
graduate students from the many universities in Pittsburgh. Many houses in the
Brookline section of the city date to the late 1800's while there are homes from
early 1900's up to the 1950s. Most major construction dropped off around that
point and newer homes are rare though they do exist.