Gaza Way

From Pittsburgh Streets
Gaza Way
Neighborhood Westwood
Fate Vacated in 1959 and 1961

This former alley ran southeastward from Brett Street, parallel to and north of Willoughby Street. It was laid out in 1901 in the plan of West Pittsburg Terrace, though that plan did not give it a name.[1]

Chartiers Township, including this part of Westwood, was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1921,[2] and the following year a Pittsburgh city ordinance named this alley Gaza Way.[3]

In a 1944 article in the Pittsburgh Press, Gilbert Love included Gaza Way in a list of ways that "in the competition for names . . . have had to take what was left by the larger streets."[4]

Gaza Way was vacated by two ordinances in 1959 and 1961.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Robert T. Paine Jr's. plan of West Pittsburg Terrace: Situate in Chartiers Twp. Allegheny Co. Pa." Laid out May 1901; recorded June 22, 1901, Plan Book 18, pp. 192–193. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3781723. [view source] west-pittsburg-terrace-plan
  2. ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "Chartiers Township–Pittsburgh City 1921 Merger." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/chartiers-township-pittsburgh-city-1921-merger/. [view source] lgeo-chartiers-annexation
  3. ↑ "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
  4. ↑ Gilbert Love. "What's in a name? A lot!: Christening streets is big chore for Pittsburgh has 5888 of them: Official Thinker Up of Street Names even goes to seed and mail order catalogs to find appropriate titles: Complications rise when residents complain." Pittsburgh Press, Feb. 11, 1944, p. 25. Newspapers.com 147943383. [view source] love-christening
  5. ↑ "An ordinance vacating portions of Burleigh Street (formerly Burns Avenue), Gaza Way (formerly Unnamed Alley), Milnor Way (formerly Moore Avenue), and Willoughby Street (formerly Willard Avenue), as laid out in the 'West Pittsburgh Terrace Plan of Lots,' also Yeckley Way (formerly Unnamed Alley) partly in the 'West Pittsburgh Terrace Plan of Lots' and partly in the 'Noble Manor Revised Plan of Lots.'" Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1959, no. 430. Passed Dec. 14, 1959; approved Dec. 17, 1959. Ordinance Book 63, p. 33. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the Year 1959, appendix, pp. 276–277, Park Printing, Inc., Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1959). [view source] ordinance-1959-430
  6. ↑ "An ordinance vacating Fifield Way (formerly Unnamed Way), from the south line of Kinmount Street (formerly Kipling Street) to the west line of Milnor Way, as vacated; the remaining portion of Burleigh Street (formerly Burns Avenue, from the east line of Brett Street to the west line of the vacated portion of Burleigh Street; and the remaining portion of Gaza Way (formerly Unnamed Alley), from the east line of Brett Street to the west line of the vacated portion of Gaza Way." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1961, no. 400. Passed Nov. 6, 1961; approved Nov. 13, 1961. Ordinance Book 64, p. 225. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the Year 1961, appendix, p. 296 (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1961). [view source] ordinance-1961-400
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