I live Downtown. I work Downtown. Believe it or not, I was born as a Downtown resident.
And no, that doesn't mean I was behind bars.
For more than a century, the only real population inside the Golden Triangle constituted of however many prisoners the U.S. Census was counting at the Allegheny County Jail on Ross Street. That was it. That was the population of Downtown, almost without exception. There was one condominium as part of Gateway Towers, two other residential high-rises ... and the jail.
Also, and us.
Meaning 625 Stanwix Street, which looks like this today:
