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We’re so excited to get started with this project and this blog! Posts will be published as we visit each neighborhood; we preemptively apologize for delays. If you have any location suggestions, or would like to be part of this process, let us know! Please follow along here, on Instagram @90conesproject, and on Facebook at…
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January 19, 2026 For our first 90 Cones trip of 2026 we headed to Squirrel Hill South for a drive around the neighborhood. Despite chilly temperatures in the 20s we braved the weather to grab some ice cream at Coldstone Creamery. Squirrel Hill South is in some ways the birth place of 90 Cones as…
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October 3, 2025 Since Edmund’s school, Pittsburgh Science & Technology Academy, is located in North Oakland, the neighborhood made a perfect after school trip. Pippa took the bus over, and the two of us stopped by Schenley Scoops for a sweet treat. Edmund had a Coke float and Pippa enjoyed a cone of delicious strawberry…
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November 22, 2025 We made an evening visit to the neighborhood of Banksville. Liddy was invited to speak at an interfaith thanksgiving dinner at the Turkish Cultural Center on Crane Avenue; our friends there shared their delicious baklava and lots of warm feelings. Before the event we stopped in at the local Eat’n Park to…
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November 8, 2025 After a babysitting job in nearby Swissvale, Pippa and Liddy headed to Park Pizza and Cream for some fall-flavored cones. Pippa had Pumpkin Pie and Liddy had Granny Smith Caramel Apple. The weather was surprisingly nice for so late in the year, so we took a long walk through the neighborhood and…
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October 4, 2025 A neighborhood close to home made for a lovely walking excursion. We walked over to Bakery Square to run a few errands, including getting some new shoes at Fleet Feet. Bakery Square, now a development that include shopping, offices, and apartments, was originally home to a Nabisco factory from 1918 to 1998.…
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Oct 31, 2025 Happy Halloween! We live just a couple blocks from the friendly residential neighborhood of Morningside, and Morningside does Halloween right: elaborate decorations, trick-or-treaters of all ages, and neighbors outside enjoying the night. Pippa (aka Sir Bernard Spilsbury of Operation Mincemeat fame) and Edmund (aka the SciTech thundershark) collected lots of candy, then…
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September 20, 2025 Never mind the fact that we’re posting this two months late: it’s time for the third and final post from our twelve-mile hike across Pittsburgh! We were tired but ice cream is always a great solution. As we walked into Allegheny West, we noticed a clear divide from its bordering neighborhoods in…
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September 20, 2025 The second stop on our ice cream hike brought us up a mountain and into a part of the city we don’t frequent often. While Mount Washington is only a bridge away from Downtown, the river, combined with the steep slope, separate it from much of Pittsburgh. We used the Monongahela Incline…
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September 20, 2025 The first stop of our 12.5 mile walk across Pittsburgh was Middle Hill, one of the five neighborhoods that make up the Hill District. The historic center of the Hill District, Middle Hill is home to many of the businesses and institutions for the area including a branch of the Carnegie Library…
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In our official 90 Cones planning spreadsheet, we have a category called “walkable” for neighborhoods that we can get to without a car. These are neighborhoods adjacent to East Liberty, reachable from home via a comfortable after dinner walk. On September 20th, we officially broke that category. We walked 12.5 miles and crossed all three…