Pittsburgh Region
Allegheny County
Borough of Castle Shannon

VFW Post

VFW Post is a community center in , , which is located on Castle Shannon Boulevard. VFW Post is situated nearby to the railway station , as well as near the dōjō .
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  • Type: Community center
  • Also known as: “Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States”, “VFW”, and “VFW Post 490”
  • Address: 1008 Castle Shannon Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15234

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Willow station and Overbrook Junction station.

Railway station
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
Willow is a station on the Overbrook branch of Pittsburgh Regional Transit's light rail network. It is located in , . It is a transfer point between the Red Line and the Blue and Silver Lines. is situated 490 feet west of VFW Post.

Railway station
Photo: An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Overbrook Junction is a station on the Beechview branch of the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network which serves , . is situated 680 feet west of VFW Post.

Railway station
Photo: Train2104, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle Shannon is a station on the Red Line of Pittsburgh Regional Transit's light rail network. It is located in . Located away from the suburb's main commercial and residential districts, the station is designed primarily as a commuter stop, with 500 spaces available for park and ride users. is situated 1,800 feet northwest of VFW Post.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mt. Lebanon and Whitehall.

Photo: Pittsburgh7, Public domain.
is an affluent suburb in , , about seven miles south of Downtown . Uptown , a business district along Washington Road in the northern part of the township, is one of the more prominent business districts in the area outside of Pittsburgh itself.

Town
Photo: Generic1139, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a landlocked borough in , United States. The population was 15,064 at the 2020 census, an increase of 1,120 since the 2010 census. It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. is situated 2 miles east of VFW Post.

Hamlet
is a neighborhood in the borough of in , , United States. It was the residence of miners of the Pittsburgh Terminal Railroad and Coal Company #4 Mine, which had a racially integrated workforce, unusual in that era. is situated 2½ miles southeast of VFW Post.

VFW Post

Latitude
40.36536° or 40° 21′ 55″ north
Longitude
-80.0246° or 80° 1′ 29″ west
Brand
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Open location code
86GX9X8G+45
Open­Street­Map ID
way 567570086
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­social_centre
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­commercial
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