South Side is an area in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, located along the Monongahela River across from Downtown Pittsburgh. The South Side is officially divided into two neighborhoods, South Side Flats and South Side Slopes. Both the Flats and the Slopes are represented on Pittsburgh City Council by Bruce Kraus. The business district stretches along East Carson Street, which is home to many small shops, restaurants and bars. In 2006, more than 80 bars and pubs operated in the South Side Flats. The neighborhood has an urban fabric with rowhouses.
Southside rowhouses typical of late 19th century.
Narrow street
Another view of historic East Carson Street
A panoramic view of the South Side (from the Birmingham Bridge on the far left to the Tenth Street Bridge on the right). The photograph was taken from Bluff Street on the campus of Duquesne University in February 2010.
The Monongahela River, sometimes referred to locally as the Mon, is a 130-mile-long (210 km) river on the Allegheny Plateau in north-central West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania. The river flows from the confluence of its west and east forks in north-central West Virginia northeasterly into southwestern Pennsylvania, then northerly to Pittsburgh and its confluence with the Allegheny River to form the Ohio River. The river includes a series of locks and dams that makes it navigable.
The Monongahela River in Pittsburgh with South Side Pittsburgh on the right and Uptown Pittsburgh on the left
The South Tenth Street Bridge over the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh in 2005
The Monongahela River in Fairmont, West Virginia, in 2006
Opekiska Lock and Dam on the Monongahela River near Fairmont, West Virginia, at river mile 115 (185 km)