Point of View

Point of View is a 2006 landmark public sculpture in bronze by James A. West which sits in a parklet named for the work of art, Point of View Park, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States.
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  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork type: statue
  • Description: sculpture by JA West in Pennsylvania, US

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Acrisure Stadium and USS Requin.

Stadium
, formerly known as Heinz Field, is a located in the neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. It primarily serves as the home of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League and the Pittsburgh Panthers of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. is situated 3,100 feet northeast of Point of View.

Photo: Malo, Public domain.
, a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named after the requin, French for shark. Since 1990 it has been a museum ship at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. is situated 2,300 feet north of Point of View.

Stadium
is a baseball on the of , Pennsylvania. It is the fifth location to serve as the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates. is situated 1 mile northeast of Point of View.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chatham Village and Downtown Pittsburgh.

Neighborhood
is a community within the larger neighborhood of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and an internationally acclaimed model of community design.

Downtown is the main business district and urban center of life in the city. Constrained by the Allegheny River on the north and the Monongahela River on the south, which join to form the Ohio River at what is known as the "Point", Downtown has been forced to grow upwards.

Neighborhood
is a historic neighborhood in Pittsburgh, 's . The Pittsburgh Historic Review Commission voted in favor of designating the neighborhood as a city historic district in September 1989.

Point of View

Latitude
40.43928° or 40° 26′ 21″ north
Longitude
-80.02127° or 80° 1′ 17″ west
Open location code
86GXCXQH+PF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4013347814
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­statue
Wiki­data ID
Q7208266
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