Oakland/Squirrel Hill have been Jewish for a few decades now. Maybe it was black back in the 60s/70s when my grandmom lived there, but hasn't been since atleast the early 90s.
Oakland's a college ghetto now. Gentrified out the ass dude.
Me and my friends used to hang out there in the late 90s to early to mid 00s. Lived there. It was like the Lower east side of manhattan back in the days. Not exactly...but tons of good clubs like club laga, the attic, the upstage, peter's pub, the beehive were around back in the day on forbes avenue. Me and my homies saw our first punk and hip hop shows there. They got rid of the clubs and turned them into student dorms.
There used to be a dope record store there called Hypervinyl and that's where i got my first house and techno records when I was djing in the early 00s.
Thats all gone. Turned into chipotles, qdoba, american apparel,...you would see lots of cool people there back in the day now its just the pitt college crowd.
And it wasnt just pitt kids that used to live there back then but art institute kids kids from duquense and just regular old teens and young adults just moving out and not even enrolled.
Lived there from 2005-2008. Once the last of the clubs closed the change in the neighborhood was palpable.