Dot Way
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| Dot Way | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Crafton Heights |
| Fate | Vacated in 1970 |
This former alley was laid out in 1903 as part of a plan of lots by the Woodland Land Company. The plan did not give it a name; it ran from an angle in Sylvania Avenue (now Dickens Street) near its intersection with Fairmount Avenue (now Fairston Street), when both of those streets extended further south than they do today, to another unnamed alley, which later became Asa Way.[1]
The alley remained unnamed until it was christened Dot Way by a Pittsburgh city ordinance in 1922.[2]
Dot Way, with many surrounding streets, was vacated by a city ordinance in 1970.[3]
In 1937, in a newspaper column about Pittsburgh street names, Charles F. Danver quipped, "The burg is punctuated by an Asterisk way, a Hyphen way, and a Dot way."[4]
References
- ↑ "Woodland plan of lots: Laid out by Woodland Land Co.: Situate in Chartiers T.w.p." Laid out May 1903; recorded June 15, 1903, Plan Book 21, pp. 30–32. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3782029. [view source] woodland-plan
- ↑ "An ordinance designating names for the unnamed streets and alleys, laid out in the various plans of lots and the unnamed township roads, in the Twentieth and Twenty-eighth Wards (formerly Chartiers Township)." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1922, no. 337. Passed Oct. 2, 1922; approved Oct. 3, 1922. Ordinance Book 33, p. 609. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1922, appendix, pp. 244–249, Kaufman Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Google Books -UEtAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust uiug.30112108223972; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1922). [view source] ordinance-1922-337
- ↑ "An ordinance vacating Ruttman Way, from Wilton Way to Bye Way, as vacated; Willett Street, from Lora Street to Bulen Way, Burdell Way from Reba Street to Bulen Way; Lora Street, from Woodlow Street to Ruttman Way; Kokomo Way, from Burdell Way to Ruttman Way; Reba Street, from Crucible Street to Ruttman Way; Gerdo Way, from Ruttman Way to its northerly terminus; Dickens Street, from Crucible Street to the southwest corner of Langley Field; Dickens Street, from a point 489.89 feet from the southeast corner of Langley Field to its westerly terminus; Unnamed Way, from Dickens Street to Ashfield Way; Olean Street, from Dickens Street to Crucible Street; Fairston Street, from Matona Way to Crucible Street; Islen Way, from Fairston Street to its westerly terminus; Asa Way, from Fairston Street to Dickens Street; Dot Way, from Dickens Street to Asa Way; Crucible Street, from the P. C. of curve in vicinity of Wilton Way, as extended westerly to its westerly terminus; Gerdo Way, from Reba Street to Gerdo Way; Woodlow Street, from a point 909.887 feet north of the northerly line of Steuben Street, as measured on the easterly line to Reba Street; all in the Twenty-eighth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, excepting and reserving an easment [sic] for future utilities in Fairston Street, from Matona Way to Dickens Street." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1970, no. 200. Passed June 1, 1970; approved June 11, 1970. Ordinance Book 71, p. 524. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the Year 1970, appendix, p. 163, Park Printing, Inc., Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1970). [view source] ordinance-1970-200
- ↑ Charles F. Danver. Pittsburghesque. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 12, 1937, p. 8. Newspapers.com 90316941. [view source] danver-1937
