leaving more than a dozen Black families homeless. Another neighborhood landmark met its demise soon thereafter: the mortuary chapel in the former St. Mary's Cemetery. Two decades after the church had abandoned the site, the secluded, crumbling chapel became an ideal spot for boxing matches, chicken fights, and card games. The chapel was razed in 1913. This simultaneous improvement and abandonment continued in Fineview over the next few decades. The community dedicated a war memorial at the intersection of Meadville Street and Catoma Street in 1919, and then learned of the closure of its ten-year-old fire station three years later. The Fineview Board of Trade built a new grandstand at their baseball field (home of the "Highlanders") in 1923; by the end of the decade, the estate overlooking the ballpark, the Andrews family's Ingleside Place, was vacant. Ingleside Place sat empty and weather-beaten until 1941, when the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh chose the estate as the site of its fifth low-income housing project, Allegheny Dwellings. By the time applications for its 282 apartments opened in July 1942, war had intervened, and the project had been reclassified as being for defense workers first, low-income families second. Allegheny Dwellings' first residents began moving in on December 15, 1942. 988 people lived there by 1944, 791 of whom were white and 197 of whom were Black. The single largest age group were those under five years old. Between 1940 and 1950, the population of the census tract comprising much of Fineview (25C) grew from 1,654 to 2,688, an increase of 1,034 people. Allegheny Dwellings accounted for approximately 96 percent of that growth, Fineview's last through the present day. Surrounding neighborhoods Fineview has four borders with the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Perry South to the north and west, Central Northside to the southwest, East Allegheny to the south and Spring Hill–City View to the east. City steps Seventeen distinct flights of city steps connect pedestrians to public transportation and provide an easy way to travel through this hilly area. Rising Main Avenue, located in the eastern side of the neighborhood, includes the fourth longest flight of city steps in Pittsburgh (331 steps). The flight is open to the public but has suffered structural damage in places due to erosion of the hillside. Since 1996, the Fineview Citizens Council has sponsored the Fineview Step Challenge, a five-mile race that utilizes all of the