Greyhound's Pittsburgh bus terminal is located across Liberty Avenue from the Amtrak Station, in the Grant Street Transportation Center building.

The New York Times once called Pittsburgh "the only city with an entrance,"[6] specifically referring to the view of Downtown that explodes upon drivers immediately upon exiting the Fort Pitt Tunnel.

Also traveling I-279 south and I-376, the city "explodes into view" when coming around a turn in the highway.

Downtown surface streets are based on two distinct grid systems that parallel the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.

[9] University of Pittsburgh economist Christopher Briem notes that the level of employment in the city has remained largely constant for the past 50 years: "[the] time series of jobs located in the City proper are about as stable as any economic metric in the region, or in any other Northeastern US urban core, over many decades.

Pittsburgh has long been a headquarters city, with numerous national and global corporations calling the Golden Triangle home.

Downtown is home to numerous parks, large and small: While Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood is known as the educational center of the city, Downtown is home to several higher education institutions as well as a branch of the city's Carnegie Library system and a Pittsburgh Public Schools 6–12 school: Downtown has several condos, including Gateway Towers and Chatham Place dating to the 1960s [11] and more modern structures as well.