New Kensington, Pennsylvania New Kensington, Pennsylvania New Kensington, Pennsylvania (8482 - 184857).jpg New Kensington is positioned in Pennsylvania New Kensington - New Kensington Location inside the state of Pennsylvania New Kensington, known locally as New Ken, is a town/city in Westmoreland County in the U.S.
State of Pennsylvania, situated along the Allegheny River 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Pittsburgh.
Originally part of Burrell (and later Lower Burrell) Township, the town/city of New Kensington was established in 1891.
In 1890, the Burrell Improvement Company considered the advantages of the level territory south of its home in Lower Burrell, and deemed it a prime locale for a town/city and titled the region "Kensington" (later changed to "New Kensington" for postal purposes, because Pennsylvania already had another town/city with that name).
In an attempt to make New Kensington comparable to Pittsburgh, the streets were titled with numbers.
New Kensington in 1896, seen in a lithograph by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler Eventually, other companies such as Adams Drilling, Goldsmith and Lowerburg, New Kensington Milling, New Kensington Brewing, Logan Lumber, Keystone Dairy, and many more were assembled late in the 19th century and closing into the early 20th century.
Early achievements encompassed a barns station, the 9th Street bridge, a passenger boat that navigated the Allegheny River, a street car line that ran to Natrona via the West Penn Railways, the Kensington Dispatch newspaper, a fire department, hotel, opera home, and a small-town chapter of the YMCA.
New Kensington took in the autonomous borough of Parnassus in 1939.
In 1941, New Kensington became the site of a undivided workers' housing universal titled the Aluminum City Terrace designed by Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius, which set new standards for federal housing design.
Today, New Kensington contains the neighborhoods of Parnassus, Mount Vernon, Valley Heights, Valley Camp, Pine Manor, and 40 Acres.
The New Kensington Downtown Historic District, New Kensington Production Works Historic District, and Mount St.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 21.8% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 21.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
New Kensington maintains its own enhance works, fire department, law enforcement, emergency rescue team, and water authority.
People's Library of New Kensington offers enhance library services.
The Westmoreland County Housing Authority administers the Kensington Manor, East Ken Manor, and Valley Manor enhance housing projects inside the town/city limits.
Two airways broadcasts, WMNY and WBZZ, are both licensed to New Kensington, and serve the Pittsburgh radio media market.
Starting in 2008, the New Kensington Redevelopment Authority moved to condemn and demolish abandoned commercial and residentiary properties.
The town/city is served by the New Kensington Arnold School District, with facilities at Valley High School, Valley Middle School, H.
Greenwald Memorial, sold by the school precinct to the Roman Catholic diocese of Greensburg, became the new locale of St.
A branch ground of Pennsylvania State University was established in New Kensington in 1958.
Since 1966, it has been positioned in suburban Upper Burrell Township, but retains the name Penn State New Kensington.
In 2008, a satellite ground of Westmoreland County Community College opened in downtown New Kensington.
New Kensington is featured in P.O.D.'s "Youth of the Nation" music video.
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