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View
a
map of Bloomfield.
Visit the
Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation.
 Areas of Bloomfield are
in Council
District 7, and
other areas are in Council
District 8.
View the map
of districts
for a delineation.
Bloomfield
is located just east of Downtown,
and is surrounded by Shadyside,
Friendship,
Garfield,
Lawrenceville, and
Oakland. It is easily
accessible via Liberty Avenue, Penn Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard.
Bloomfield's name was derived from the many wildflowers that bloomed
there years ago. 
Bloomfield
is home to one of the city's largest, and most active, business
districts along Liberty Avenue. Card shops, shoe stores, Italian
restaurants, and groceries abound, attracting shoppers not only
from nearby neighborhoods but from the whole Pittsburgh region.
In the late
1800s, millworkers in nearby Lawrenceville
constructed small row houses designed for single families and businesses
in the style of their homeland. Today, well-maintained rowhomes
along quaint, narrow streets characterize Bloomfield. Here
homes are often passed down through families, and grandchildren
usually live just a few blocks from grandparents, aunts, uncles,
and cousins.
Bloomfield
residents are deeply rooted in the community and are proud of their
recreational and youth programs.
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