November 15, 2025

Here’s our final 90 Cones visit from 2025! (Yes, we know it’s April.) We spent a lovely November afternoon in Spring Garden, a neighborhood we were very unfamiliar with. We headed to Marshall’s, a convenience store and gas station. Google Reviews and signage suggest that Marshall’s has good Reubens, but we did not have sandwiches on our visit. Instead, Pippa, Edmund, and Liddy all chose sundae cones, while Greg went for a Klondike bar. We then took a walk up and down Spring Garden Avenue, the neighborhood’s primary thoroughfare.

Located in a deep valley between Spring Hill and Troy Hill, Spring Garden is only a 10 minute drive from Downtown Pittsburgh, but has a very unique almost rural feel. Originally settled by German and Austrian immigrants in the middle of the 19th century, in its heyday it was home to tanneries, rendering companies, and slaughterhouses. Today it is quieter, with a smaller population of people (though lots of crows; see our fun fact!). We also spotted several houses of worship, including St. Peter’s United Church of Christ, as well as an Uzbek restaurant we’d like to try sometime.

Fun Fact:
About 20,000 American Crows roost in Pittsburgh each winter; on our visit to Spring Garden, it felt like most of them were hanging out on the hillsides above Spring Garden Avenue.