Allegheny West, the smallest neighborhood on the Northside, could get a whole lot bigger in terms of residents. That’s because the Allegheny West Civic Council is mulling over a study to transform their industrial district north of W. North Avenue into a loft district. Many of the brick and masonry structures that served as factories or warehouses are in need of renovations, and the community group would like to redraw their current designation as a City of Pittsburgh Historic District to encompass this industrial zone. Although many of the details are still being worked out, the neighborhood group contracted Maynes Associates to compile a study of the area and make development recommendations that they hope to accomplish in coming years. The study proposes to convert at least four existing industrial buildings into lofts, a move that would bring a dose of urban trendiness to the neighborhood known mostly for its well- maintained Victorian homes. These buildings include the former Allegheny Stables Building on W. North Avenue, the former Hipwell Factory across the street, the Value-Added Foods building on the corner of Behan Street and Galveston Avenue, and at least one other former industrial building. The study suggests that these loft or multi-residence apartment buildings feature first-floor parking to counteract the issue of a flood of new residents to the neighborhood. As it now stands, Allegheny West is at capacity for available residential parking. In an attempt to expand pedestrian traffic and safety of the area, the study also calls for a new road to either connect the dead ends on Behan Street and Jabok Way or to additionally connect them with W. North Avenue. The last major proposal calls for similar streetscape improvements that the civic group has planned or completed on Western Avenue. These include introducing new parklets along several streets and one large community garden with individual plots on Behan Street, planting trees on both sides of streets, and brick sidewalks and vintage street lighting. Two of the industrial buildings on North Avenue will likely be the first major district improvement. The Hipwell Factory This former flashlight factory may be sold as early as this fall to business owner Mitchell Schwartz, he said. Schwartz has been looking for a site to relocate his Knoxville-based SMART Solution Technologies, a dealer in communications equipment to schools and businesses, and is in talks with holding company that owns the building. “My wife and I always wanted to live in a loft, so we thought instead of renting a place in something else’s building, we decided to build our own,” Schwartz said. The property includes a total of five buildings, two of which Schwartz hopes to convert into new headquarters for his 22-employee company. He would convert another one into lofts for sale, another one into lofts for rent, and keep one of the buildings for him and his wife, Elaine Stone, who would be in charge of the property development. “We looked around in the Strip District, but that’s not a neighborhood. The Northside is,” said Schwartz. The Allegheny Stables Volume 26 No. 7 July 2010 Northside: Pittsburgh’s Best Kept Secret Allegheny West imagines chic future loft district By Henry Clay Webster This map shows one of three possible road alterations. This option would connect Behan Street and Jabok Way, currently dead ends, to W. North Avenue. Though the map is a tentative plan, it represents Allegheny West’s high ambitions. See Lofts, page 18 For more stories and photos, check out www.thenorthsidechronicle.com A longtime Northside banjo night becoming cool to youngsters in the know. Arist Nathan Hall wrote and performed a multi- site compostion about the history of the Northside Washburn Square houses are almost all sold before they’re even completed. Why did it take 10 years? 3 7 5 A banjo institution Sold, at last! An unusual musical
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Allegheny West, the smallest neighborhood on the Northside, could get a whole lot bigger in terms of residents.
That’s because the Allegheny West Civic Council is mulling over a study to transform their industrial district north of W. North Avenue into a loft district. Many of the brick and masonry structures that served as factories or warehouses are in need of renovations, and the community group would like to redraw their current designation as a City of Pittsburgh Historic District to encompass this industrial zone.
Although many of the details are still being worked out, the neighborhood group contracted Maynes Associates to compile a study of the area and make development recommendations that they hope to accomplish in coming years.
The study proposes to convert at least four existing industrial buildings into lofts, a move that would bring a dose of urban trendiness to the neighborhood known mostly for its well-maintained Victorian homes.
These buildings include the former Allegheny Stables Building on W. North Avenue, the former Hipwell Factory across the street, the Value-Added Foods building on the corner of Behan Street and Galveston Avenue, and at least one other former industrial building.
The study suggests that these loft or multi-residence apartment
buildings feature first-floor parking to counteract the issue of a flood of new residents to the neighborhood. As it now stands, Allegheny West is at capacity for available residential parking.
In an attempt to expand pedestrian traffic and safety of the area, the study also calls for a new road to either connect the dead ends on Behan Street and Jabok Way or to additionally connect them with W. North Avenue.
The last major proposal calls for similar streetscape improvements that the civic group has planned or completed on Western Avenue. These include introducing new parklets along several streets and one large community garden with individual plots on Behan Street, planting trees on both sides of streets, and brick sidewalks and vintage street lighting.
Two of the industrial buildings on North Avenue will likely be the first major district improvement.
The Hipwell Factory
This former flashlight factory may be sold as
early as this fall to business owner Mitchell Schwartz, he said.
Schwartz has been looking for a site to relocate his Knoxville-based SMART Solution Technologies, a dealer in communications equipment to schools and businesses, and is in talks with holding company that owns the building.
“My wife and I always wanted to live in a loft, so we thought instead of renting a place in something else’s building, we decided to build our own,” Schwartz said.
The property includes a
total of five buildings, two of which Schwartz hopes to convert into new headquarters for his 22-employee company. He would convert another one into lofts for sale, another one into lofts for rent, and keep one of the buildings for him and his wife, Elaine Stone, who would be in charge of the property development.
“We looked around in the Strip District, but that’s not a neighborhood. The Northside is,” said Schwartz.The Allegheny Stables
Volume 26 No. 7 July 2010
Northside:Pittsburgh’s BestKept Secret
Allegheny West imagines chic future loft districtBy Henry Clay Webster
This map shows one of three possible road alterations. This option would connect Behan Street and Jabok Way, currently dead ends, to W. North Avenue. Though the map is a tentative plan, it represents Allegheny West’s high ambitions.
See Lofts, page 18
For more stories and photos, check out www.thenorthsidechronicle.com
A longtime Northside banjo night becoming cool to youngsters in the know.
Arist Nathan Hall wrote and performed a multi-site compostion about the history of the Northside
Washburn Square houses are almost all sold before they’re even completed. Why did it take 10 years?
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A banjo institution Sold, at last! An unusual musical
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When bragging about the Northside’s many cultural institutions to out-of-towners, many locals forget to mention one that has appeared on a weekly basis for more than twenty years.
The Pittsburgh Banjo Club has been playing free public concerts on Wednesday nights in Deutschtown so long that without many of its members hailing from this side of town, many think of them as a Northside band.
Their weekly gig at the Elks Club on Cedar Avenue, which doubles as a band rehearsal, often brings in a crowd of more than 100.
Recently, the group, consisting of 87 members but only ever fielding about 20 for a performance, has seen a new popularity among the younger arts crowd.
“All of the sudden within the last year, the young crowd has started to pop in,” said band leader Frank Rossi. “The James Street Café was strictly an older crowd, mostly jazz fans,” he added, alluding to where they used to play.
Rossi estimated the average age of the crowd at the Elks Club at 65, but more and more of the college-aged crowd are filtering in. For a certain segment of the beard-growing, vintage dress wearing counterculture, often called “hipsters,” there isn’t a better Wednesday night hang out in the city.
And though most aren’t avid banjo enthusiasts, the option of attending a banjo night, with its focus on old-time music, has a kind of exotic appeal to a generation raised on electronic, over-produced songwriting.
Not bothered by hanging out with folks their grandparents’ age, most of these twenty-somethings say they’re intrigued by the old-fashioned vibe. And the $1.50 beers, of course, don’t hurt either.
CMU art grad Magali Duzant falls into this crowd.
“It lacks the pretension other places have, and the beer
is cheap,” Duzant said, and that her interest in banjo night lies strongly in the atmosphere.
“[Banjo music] may not be something I have in my car, but it’s nice music, and you can listen and hear yourself talk at the same time.”
Duzant and her friend, Michelle Lee, sat hunched over the bar, drinking their Yuengling out of plastic cups. “I come here once a month,” Lee said, adding that it was nice to get outside of Lawrenceville, the neighborhood that most notably caters to the
hipster crowd.One factor that endears the
band is Rossi’s talent at making breezy small talk with the audience during and between each song.
On this night in June, as the band picks up the opening notes of the jazz standard “Blueberry Hill,” and one of the band’s trumpet player begins tooting away, Rossi, 75, smiles over the crowd. “Me and my wife used to slow dance to this song … 1967 … I’ve been married for 59 years … Where did I go wrong?”
The crowd roars, and Rossi launches into the chorus, “The
moon stood still … on Blueberry Hill.”
The Pittsburgh Banjo Club mainly sticks to what Rossi calls the “golden age of the banjo,” 1920 to 1930, playing a host of well-known ragtime, jazz and bluegrass ballads.
“We play the music of the 1890s to the 1950s. If you turn on Lawrence Welk, you’ll hear most of our songs,” said band member Joan Dickerson.
Dickerson, the band’s only black member, has been playing with the group for 15 years.
Similar to many of her fellow band mates, she only began playing banjo in her 40s.
“Only a handful [of members] have taken lessons. Most just pick it up. An awful lot of them are ear players, they just learned some chords,” Dickerson said.
Dickerson of the few have taken banjo lessons. She began taking lessons on a classic style banjo, which has five strings, as opposed to the plectrum banjo, with four strings, she now plays.
“Since the teacher I was taking lessons from was a club member, I tended to go [to banjo
night]. And there were smokers there, and I didn’t want to be among the smokers, so I joined the band.”
And this is one of the central themes of the band: everyone who’s interested in banjo, can join in. Rather than working with new members on an individual basis, Rossi has them sit in with the band during these Elks Lodge performances.
While the experienced players carry each song, new members can strum chords until they get the swing of
things. Seasoned bad members, like Dickerson, then play the corresponding string melody by plucking individual notes. Underneath the rhythm of the 15 or 20 banjos strumming, it’s difficult to pick up the one beginner just trying to keep up.
As happened on this night though, sometimes the band as a whole can’t keep up with Rossi. The band leader bounces on his toes, a signal to pick up the pace.
When the song ends, Rossi makes a joke of it: “If I were dancing that slow, we would have never had any kids, I’ll tell you that.”
Pittsburgh Banjo Club: Northside tradition now reaching the young
Photo by Henry Clay WebsterFrank Rossi, left, leads the Pittsburgh Banjo Club in a little diddy at the Elks Club on Cedar Avenue.
This is the sixth piece in an ongoing series of profiles on the Northside’s many talented musicians. Visit our website to view past features on other acts, including several videos of musicians playing live.
By Henry Clay Webster
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“The greens are slamming and the cornbread is fire,” observed Central Northsider Roberta Armstrong, who sat with her family outside Bistro Soul’s open house on Friday, June 18.
Owner Nikki Heckman has planned the opening of her new soul food restaurant at 415 East Ohio St. for months and even advertised the event on billboards overlooking I-279.
And, boy, did the crowds come. More than a 100 guests crammed
into the front of the casual dining restaurant, which features a garage door entry and a takeout counter, and tried to get their hands on samples of what the new eatery will offer before it officially opens on June 29.
The food is less expensive than Bistro-to-Go and is sold in a variety of sizes to fit all wallets and stomachs.
Bistro Soul’s style mimics Bistro-to-Go next door, but its warm color palette — blue, yellow, green
and red — announces a more relaxed atmosphere than its older sister. Bistro Soul can also seat about twice as many patrons as Bistro-to-Go.
Beside the collard greens and cornbread, obvious crowd favorites, Bistro Soul cooks handed out samples of red beans and rice, a black-eyed pea salad and country ribs.
The opening caught the eye of frequent Bistro-to-Go customer Val Say, of Gibsonia, a nurse at Allegheny General Hospital.
Speaking of Bistro Soul’s mature counterpart next door, Say said, “We’ve never had any bad food down here. I always recommend it to people.”
Jazz duo Baq II Baq (pronounced “back-to-back”), consisting of Bill Holt on saxophone and Brian Bullard on percussion, entertained the crowd in the large back dining area, which Heckman plans to have double as a conference room and music venue.
After Rev. Lawrence Thompson, of Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, said a prayer, Grant Mitten, a member of the Seneca Native-American tribe, performed a
traditional Seneca blessing.After burning sage in a bowl,
Mitten walked the room and wafted the smoke at each table. The pungent smell lent the occasion a pleasant atmosphere, and afterward several staff members of Bistro-to-Go spoke about the significance of opening Bistro’s sister restaurant.
“Since the 1970s, we saw the decline of the Northside,” said David McMunn, president of the Mexican War Streets Society and a Bistro-to-Go employee. McMunn called Bistro Soul’s opening an event equal to other area redevelopments like the new Carnegie Library on Federal Street and the new street lights and brick sidewalks on Western Avenue. Opening Bistro Soul would bring the same attention to East Ohio Street, he said.
“It’s not just the great food. It’s the people who work here,” Heckman said.
Heckman said on the back wall of the rear dining area, Bistro Soul will feature a local nonprofit each month. This month Urban Impact, a youth sports and mentoring program,
was advertised on the wall, and pamphlets on each table told patrons how they could get involved.
After another prayer, Heckman made it clear to her guests that though she and many of her staff were Christian, she wanted Bistro Soul to be open to people of all walks of life.
Many longtime patrons of Bistro-to-Go were excited to see the reappearance of Chef Alfredo, who was badly injured in a car accident last year. Alfredo, displaced from New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and responsible for introducing many of Bistro-to-Go’s Cajun recipes, even stood up out of his wheelchair at one moment to thank the crowd for keeping him in their prayers during his long hospital stay.
Chef Alfredo’s reappearance made the event extra special for many of his former co-workers. In their remarks to attendees, many said his well-being was a sign of better things to come at Bistro Soul.
“Certainly, [God] has done a good thing on East Ohio Street,” said Reverend Thompson.
Bistro Soul opens to much fanfare on renewed East Ohio StreetBy Henry Clay Webster
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Washburn Square, a success at last
One of the Northside’s longest-running residential construction projects is finally near its end.
Members of the Brightwood Civic Group, alongside Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, Council President Darlene Harris and others, joined together to celebrate the near completion of Washburn Square at a ribbon cutting on June 21. The construction, more than 10 years in the making, turned a dilapidated housing complex between Superior Avenue and Hodgkiss Street into three single-family homes and an adjacent park.
Since purchasing the neglected group of 42 rental row houses from Ondek Investments in 2001, the Brightwood Civic Group has learned the rollercoaster ride that is urban redevelopment.
Why did it take so long? “The actual building and selling
of them has been nothing compared to
tearing the old buildings down,” said BCG’s current President, Diane Annis-Dixon.
Her answer sheds light on the difficulty inherent in using federal dollars to build on previously used city land. In order to purchase the site, the BCG had partnered with the city’s Urban Redevelopment Authority, the development arm of the city of Pittsburgh.
Because the project received federal funding, the Northside Leadership Conference, who acted as the project manager for the BCG, had to help tenants find new housing. As late as 2007, nearly 20 people still lived in the complex, according to Ed Brandt, then director of the BCG, and the community group was beginning to rack up bills.
“We had to repair a broken sewer line, because someone was still living in the apartments,” Brandt said.
By Henry Clay Webster
Darlene Harris cuts the ribbon with members of Brightwood young and old. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl joins in at right.
Photo courtesy Suzi Neft
See Washburn Square, page 24
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“Simply the Best” was the theme of The Northside Leadership Conference’s 27th annual Scholarship & Awards Dinner on June 10 at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Center.
Mark Fatla, executive director of the Northside Leadership Conference, welcomed those in attendance and spoke about the Conference’s successes and challenges over the past year.
Fatla explored the night’s theme by looking at why the Northside is the best in sports, politics, attractions, outdoor activities, partnerships and neighborhoods.
“But the dinner committee wasn’t thinking of any of that when they picked the theme,” Fatla said. “They were thinking of our young people who are receiving scholarships and our dedicated neighborhood volunteers. They are simply our best.”
Jack Hunt, better known as Johnny Angel, was master of ceremonies for the event, which celebrated the accomplishments and efforts of the young and the old.
Twenty Northside high school students were awarded for their scholastic and volunteer achievements. Through the
charity of corporate sponsors, The Northside Leadership Conference awarded 14 scholarships, worth $1,000 each. Pittsburgh Northside Rotary president Wayne Alling also awarded six Compaq Celeron 900 laptops to high achievers.
Charice McCoy, of Pittsburgh Perry High School, who received a $ 500 scholarship, said the push for the accolade came from school.
“Our school secretary, Ms. Jackie, really pushed me along and motivated me to apply; we went over the rules together and she gave me the deadline,” McCoy said.
Community service is important, said McCoy.
“When I put in those hours of community service I did it because I wanted to; never would I have thought that I would be rewarded, ” she said.
Charice plans on using the scholarship money towards books when she starts CCAC in the fall.
“I plan on studying radiology with the help of the Pittsburgh Promise and the Northside Leadership Conference scholarship,” said McCoy.
Working in the radiology department at Allegheny General Hospital is one of McCoy’s goals in order to assist as many Northsiders as possible.
Northside Leadership Conference holds 27th award night, dinner
By Corey Carrington
Scott Brown, left, of Citizens Bank, hands $1,000 scholarships to Jen-nifer Dulski, of North Catholic High School, and Joshua Smith, of Vincentian Academy.
Photo by Corey Carrington
See Dinner, page 23
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From the moment it began, those who had given their Sunday afternoon to the multi-site music performance, titled the “Music of North Side Spaces,” knew they were in for an original experience.
Nathan Hall, the office manager at the Mattress Factory art museum, spent nine months writing the hour-long experimental composition — an avant-garde performance piece that involved an audience of 75 to follow 20 musicians on a walking tour of Old Allegheny City’s historic haunts.
Beginning in the New Hazlett Theater’s lobby, a quintet, accompanied by two members who literally played typewriters and ripped up shards of paper, sang an ode to Andrew Carnegie, who built the Old Allegheny Library in which the theater now resides.
From there, the walking concert led to the former Buhl Planetarium, traipsed through the Allegheny Commons and ended at the Mattress Factory. Between musical sets, Northsider Danny Bracken acted as the tour guide, dispensing unusual historical factoids, such as: “During WWII, Lake Elizabeth was drained and
used for scrap metal storage.”Musicians at multiple stops
along the way played songs about the various monuments and spaces where they stood.
At the Aviary, for instance, the audience was surprised by a saxophonist and a flute player perched in nearby trees and playing what sounded like the jazz equivalent of bird noises.
A three-member ensemble played xylophones and sang an off-kilter pop tune about an old meteorite exhibition in the voice of the meteorite itself, with lyrics like, “I and some of my brothers struck the earth in Arizona.”
As puzzled as some crowd members were, it left smiles on the majority of faces.
“I liked it, just how they used distance and space to integrate the music with the environment,” said audience member Timoth Sweetser.
Hall, 27, who has a master’s degree in music composition from Carnegie Mellon, said he had never written a piece like this before. The Charm Bracelet Foundation gave him a grant to fund the project.“Most of the pieces were inspired by the architecture of that space,” Hall said. “[So in the case of the library,] I had the artists look like librarians.”
Mattress Factory employee unveils musical of historic proportionsBy Henry Clay Webster
Nathan Hall, center, belts out the last few lines of his historical overture, Music of North Side Spaces.
Photo by Henry Clay Webster
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Perry, Oliver introduce Pittsburgh Promise to students, parents
While the last book has been closed for the school year, both Oliver High School and Perry Traditional Academy hosted a promising educational event for the first time on June 23.
In hopes of preparing incoming ninth graders, as well as their parents, for what lies ahead and the opportunities that await them, Perry Traditional Academy provided an informational session on the adjustment from middle school to high school, as well as insight into The Pittsburgh Promise.
The Pittsburgh Promise is a community effort funded by various donors throughout the Pittsburgh area in hopes of fueling the interest of high school students to succeed within the classroom and seeks to award students with up to $20,000 in scholarships towards pursuing a higher education.
To be eligible for the Promise college funding, a student must
graduate from a Pittsburgh public school, have a minimum grade point average of 2.5 upon graduation, have at least 90 percent attendance, and have been enrolled the Pittsburgh Public School District since 9th grade.
Spurring The Pittsburgh Promise is the Promise Readiness Corps
(PRC), a program that strives to support students’ transition into high school to assure that they arrive at their junior year ready to attain the Pittsburgh Promise.
As a well-known German teacher at Perry, as well as the coordinator for the PRC, Christina Thomas’s enthusiasm of
the PRC’s initiatives emerged when she exclaimed the benefits and potential that the Pittsburgh Promise holds for every student.
“The purpose of today is to engage students, present information on the Pittsburgh Promise, get parents proactive and present a means for a solid education,” Thomas explained.
Aside from its monetary benefits, The Pittsburgh Promise strives to help students and families plan, prepare and compensate for continuing education after high school, as well as enhance the growth, stability and economic development of Pittsburgh.
Although every student is capable of seizing The Pittsburgh Promise, fewer than half of Pittsburgh’s ninth grade students are properly prepared. According to an analysis conducted in 2007 from the National Student Clearinghouse, out of 20 children who start high school enrolled in the Pittsburgh Promise,
By Jacob Flannick
See Promise, page 20
Rebekah Skweres attempts to sink 9th-grade civics teacher Lauren McElroy at the Oliver High School Community Day.
Photo by Jacob Flannick
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Oldest continuous business on East Ohio loses founder, Bernie Klein
Bernard H. Klein, 87, of Stanton Heights, passed away Saturday, June 5.
A beloved husband, father of three and grandfather of seven, Northsiders knew him as the owner and namesake of Bernie’s Photo Center.
From when he opened the shop in 1958 to when he retired in 2007 after suffering a stroke, Bernie introduced generations of Northsiders to the wonder of photography.
“I worked with him [for] almost 35 years. He was a teacher. He taught me about business,” said his son Bruce Klein, who now manages the store. “He would take me into the darkroom and show me how to develop photographs from a very early age.”
Born in McKeesport, Bernie
began shooting event photography as a part-time job on weekends after returning from WWII. His interest in photography became a consuming passion, and he began working for several photography shops in Pittsburgh before he opened Bernie’s Photo Center on East Ohio Street.
Much changed in photography during Bernie’s career. He went from using 4x5 glass plates to film and, later, to digital prints. His family points out that he was alive for the debut of the Polaroid camera in 1947 and its discontinuation in 2008.
Through all of that, Bruce said his father always stayed committed to customer service.
Bernie was always aiding people “in the form of experience, educating people on the use of equipment, [telling them the] type of things to
do to make you a better photographer. It’s that one-on-one service I learned from my dad,” Bruce said.
“We’re coming from the days of the Kodak instamatic — there were apertures and shutter speeds [to deal with]. It wasn’t a point-and-shoot
world,” said Howard Scheyer, a long-time
employee of Bernie’s Photo Center. Scheyer said while photography is still a teachable art, the complexity of it 50 years ago required someone knowledgeable enough to aid those new to photography.
Bruce estimated that his father’s
favorite photo was taken right after WWII. “It looks like a boardwalk. Three sailors are sitting on a fence railing, and all their heads are turned in the same direction, watching these girls walk past them down the boardwalk.”
After graduating from college in the early 1980s, Bruce joined his father in expanding the one-man operation into a 22-employee corporation, he said.
“He always believed in the Northside. He always believed in East Ohio Street. He had opportunities to move, but he was committed. He wanted to stick it out. He saw the future there,” Bruce said.
Besides his store and his love of photography, friends remember him as an avid science fiction fan, a violinist and a father who loved his family.
“He’s going to be missed. He provided for his kids and grandchildren. He was a family man,” Scheyer said.
By Henry Clay Webster
Bernie Klein: 1922-2010
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In need of couch, band comes to Nside
As the Internet reaches maturity, it’s quickly becoming a primary source for social introductions, no matter what social group a person falls into.
Young mothers have mommy blogs, philatelists have stamp collecting forums, and these days, another subgroup of web surfers have couchsurfing.org.
The website connects people who open up their houses to complete strangers who need a place to stay for a couple of days. The site allows users to read each others’ written posts and determine if they’d feel safe allowing that person to stay the night.
And this is what allowed a local Internet entrepreneur, Jia Ji, of East Deutschtown, and a burgeoning musician from Tennessee named Nicholas Naioti to set up a dual concert and fundraising event, without ever meeting face-to-face. Ji is hosting what the couch surfing community calls a tradition — a couch surfing
potluck on the grassy plot in front of Schiller 6-8 on July 12.
Naioti will have both a place to stay on his national tour and an attentive audience, and Ji will use the concert as a way to raise money for the Pittsburgh Project through a voluntary $5 cover charge.
On a regular basis, Ji sets up social functions in an effort to utilize his fundraising know-how to benefit local nonprofits.
The idea for the concert began a few months ago when Ji found a request on couchsurfing.org for someone to house and feed an unknown musician from Tennessee who wanted to book his own national tour.
Nicholas Naioti, 25, the front man of a folk band called Children of Spy, was in search of place to play a show and rest the night between previously scheduled shows in New Plymouth, Ohio, and Philadelphia, Pa.
“I just posted something to the Pittsburgh board and [Ji] wrote
By Henry Clay Webster
See Couch Surfing, page 21
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Photos by Henry Clay Webster
Photo courtesy Nicole Moga
Photo by Henry Clay Webster
Above: Two ladies in attendance at the June 18 Urban Garden Party at the Mattress Factory twirl each other on the dance floor. The Mattress Factory claimed to sell 1,000 tickets to the event, their largest fundraiser of the year.Below: A member of urban dance crew Jungle Boogie demonstrates some minimalist dance moves under the tent.
2010 Urban Garden Party
Boy Scout Crossover Ceremony
Park Revitalization and Clean-up
Boy Scout Troop 281 Scout Master Alan Perry, left, assists Michael Kisner in his Crossover Ceremony from Cub Scout to Boy Scout at North Side Church of God on June 27.
More than a dozen members of PittsburghCares worked with members of the Troy Hill Citizens Council to revitalize the park at Hatteras and Claim Streets on June 3.
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Photo courtesy of Photo Antiquities
Photo by Henry Clay Webster
Photos by Henry Clay Webster
Above: Grant Mitten offers a Seneca blessing for the prosperity of the restaurant at Bistro Soul’s open house on June 18.Below: A crowd of locals swarmed the open house at Bistro Soul to try owner Nikki Heckman’s collard greens, red beans and rice and corn bread.
Above: Pete Stumpp, of First Niagara bank, hands a check of $1,000 to Stephanie Skinger at the Northside Leadership Conference’s 27th annual Scholarship and Awards dinner on June 10.Below: Betty Jane Ralph, center left, won a Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in Manchester.
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Something magical happened on Monterey Street in the Central Northside on June 24 when City of Asylum/Pittsburgh held a poetry reading in collaboration with Cave Canem, a writing retreat for African-American poets.
The reading featured some of the most acclaimed and influential African-American poets in the country, including Colleen J. McElroy, Carl Phillips, Claudia Rankine and Sapphire, served as a informal conclusion to the writing retreat’s week of events.
But rather than just the poetry standing on its own, the night was animated by the collective energy of the poets themselves, who were refreshed after spending almost a week with their artistic counterparts.
Cave Canem, Italian for “beware of the dog,” held its retreat at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg where it has been for the past seven years. The retreat boasted 54 poetry fellows this year.
Beside the crowds’ enthusiasm for the poet’s work, many lesser-known fellows spoke of the excitement at attending a retreat with other renowned authors and poets who are influences on their own work.
First year fellow, Makalani Bandele’, cited Carl Phillips as an influence.
“Where my poetry is going, I want to incorporate more of what he does in my work,” Bandele said.
Another first year fellow, Ebony Golden, finds a commonality of message in the work of Saphire, who is best known for writing the novel Push, on which the movie Precious is based.
“Her [Sapphire’s] work is a lot about hope, and that is something I’m trying to do as well,” she said.
Third-year fellow, Stephanie Pruitt, found Claudia Rankine’s works, “hauntingly beautiful.”
However, many are not just poets. They also have careers. Fellow Erica Monteiro, for instance, is a high school teacher in Roxbury, Ma.
“I love working with kids from the hood,” Monteiro said. “They inspire me with their creativity.”
Bandele’ stopped writing at one point to follow his career of choice.
“I was in ministry for 15 years,” he said, “and I recently started writing again two years ago.”
Indifferent to the literary status of each fellow, the organizers of the retreat let two things be known: everyone is equal and everyone is chosen for a reason.
“Fellows represent global shifts and local communities,” Golden said.
A local community is what the City of Asylum/Pittsburgh chose as the backdrop for the reading and the neighborhood played a perfect role in it all.
Many neighbors could be seen walking by, stopping to catch a couple words on the humid June air, then leaving to go back to their homes.
City of Asylum/Pittsburgh founder, Henry Reese, was very happy to have the event in the neighborhood and made sure to establish a solid connection between Cave Canem and his group.
“We protect voices internationally, they protect voices domestically”, said Reese.
“If you look at the suicide rates of poets, it’s very high because many feel isolated from society,” Pruitt said. “For poets to have a community, it can be life saving.”
By Corey Carrington
Nationally-renowned black poets reflect at War Streets reading
Poet and author, Saphire.Photo by Corey Carrington
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After having a potential buyer fall through in the spring, the Northside Leadership Conference, in tandem with Re/MAX Select Realty, is marketing this historic 20,400 square foot building that used to be home to the city’s work horses.
“Our objective was to establish a blank canvas for a developer or individual to step in and bring the space to life,” said Nancy Noszka, the Conference’s Director of Real Estate.. “The high ceilings, arched windows and brick walls make the building suited for residential lofts, a modern live/work space or artist studios.”
So far the building has received interest from several parties, including one couple interested in converting the entire building into a single residence.
Three possible designs
drawn up by architect Jerry Morosco demonstrate several uses for the three-story building.
Two of the designs show either 10 or 12 single-story apartments on the second and third stories, with over 5,500 square feet of space on the first floor for commercial or other uses. Space next to the building would be used for 18 parking spaces.
A third rendering projects six two-story lofts on the upper floors and room for 13 parking spaces on the first floor.
Including acquisition costs of $325,000 and major renovation costs, Noszka said the total cost could exceed $3 million. But because of the historic nature of the building, the Conference is seeking to raise $1 million through government and foundation grants to help a future buyer with redevelopment costs.
Loft district in early stagesFrom Loft, page 1
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13 graduate from high school, nine pursue a higher education and only three finish a higher degree.
While nearly every parent favorably looked upon the academic opportunity offered by the Pittsburgh Promise, some were a bit leery to commit their children to such a pursuit in the setting of Perry Traditional Academy.
John Collier, the father of incoming ninth-grader Hillary Collier, expressed skepticism towards the effectiveness of his daughters ability to properly learn in an environment where the facilities are in need of improvement.
“An appealing environment is a crucial part in providing students with a thorough education,” said Collier. “In order to meet the requirements of The Pittsburgh Promise, and to stay in Pittsburgh’s public schools, much renovation needs to be done.”
Mr. Silverstine, a French teacher at Perry, agreed with parents’ criticisms of Perry’s facilities.
“Mainly the hallways of Perry are in need of painting refurbishment and updates, as well as air conditioning for classrooms,” said Silverstine, who has been told that renovations of Perry are planned for the near future.
Just down Brighton Road, Oliver High School was also hosting a similar event in an effort to promote a sturdy educational foundation to incoming and current students through The Pittsburgh Promise, as well as to propel the community’s involvement within the Northside.
This fun-filled event featured karaoke, face painting, a wide assortment of foods and, appropriate for a hot summer day, a dunking tank.
Dennis Chakey, the Principal of Oliver High School, understands that many parents are worried about their children’s progress upon entering high school.
“We want the parents to know the truth about Oliver,” said Chakey, who said he is working hard to diminish Oliver’s negative reputation.
“Oliver is a different school now, and we want to announce that to all the parents and students of the Northside,” Chakey said.
According to Chakey, a key factor that has led to the revitalization of Oliver’s educational system, as well as the increased confidence held by parents and faculty members in their students are the fundamental elements of the PRC.
These elements recognize the importance of holding mentoring sessions with students, the value that adult relationships have on a students success, and the advantage of building a close-knit student-teacher relationship by having PRC members teaching 9th grade students and transitioning with them into 10th grade.
Brice Hostutler, a special education reading and English teacher, expressed his support of the PRC’s initiatives when explaining
the importance of developing relationships with his students.
“I like the idea of building a community within the school, which will ultimately better the kids’ test scores and increase their will to learn,” said Hostutler.
Lauren McElroy, a ninth grade civics teacher at Oliver, shared a similar outlook of approval when explaining the importance of familiarity within the classroom.
“This idea of looping, where teachers stick with their ninth grade students as they transition into 10th grade, will connect the students with each other, creating a community within the classroom and ultimately making it easier to educate them,” McElroy said, as she dried herself off after being dunked by a little girl.
The focus of this event was not just limited to the classroom, however, but reached out to the Northside community as a whole -- an effort sponsored by the various service providers in attendance.
Teachers preach staying with students from 9th to 10th gradeFrom Promise, page 8
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back pretty quickly. It looks like he’s going to be a good contact. I can really get behind what he’s doing,” Naioti said from his home in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
According to Ji and Naioti, couch surfers hold regular monthly potlucks in just about every major U.S. city.
“Usually, the way I phrase it is that I say, ‘Hey, will somebody have a potluck and let me play music for free, and I’ll help cook?’ It’s different than playing in a bar. At a bar, a lot of people are there just to drink, but this way, it’s more personal. It’s just more fun to play when people aren’t drunk,” said the soft-spoken Naioti.
Naioti is no stranger to the popular itinerant’s website.
“I never get hotels. I insist on finding someone to stay with. The couch surfing community has been really good to me,” he said. “The idea is that you use it so you can meet a new person. It’s an experience unlike staying at a hotel.”
“The main reason Pittsburgh has an active couch surfing culture is because we have so many students and international students,” said Ji, whose website,
couchange.org, helps nonprofits use technology to raise donations.
He expects at least 40 members of the active Pittsburgh couch surfing community and friends to attend the concert, which will be held from 6 to 10 p.m., and welcomes anyone else to join in the potluck ritual.
All welcome to couch potluckFrom Couch Surfing, page 11
“Hey, will somebody
have a potluck and let me play music for free, and I’ll help
cook? ”-Nicholas Naioti
Biking is a fun activity for those of all ages and also a great way to get around without the financial or environmental costs of gasoline. It’s great to see more Pittsburghers and Pennsylvanians biking, but more bikers has unfortunately resulted in more accidents. The number of bicyclists killed in Pennsylvania last year doubled to 16, and more than 550 riders were injured.
I encourage drivers to always be aware of bicycles, share the road and be patient. But PennDOT offers tips on many precautions bicyclists must take to ensure their own safety.
Before getting on a bicycle, everyone should consider receiving training in the skills necessary to ride safely on the road. Once bicyclists are ready to ride, they should make sure bikes are equipped with reflectors, a white headlight and a bell or horn. Riders should also
wear brightly-colored clothing when riding, especially near dusk.
The safest place to ride is along the right side of the road with
traffic. Riders should stay in a straight line whenever possible and keep about a car-door width away from parked vehicles.
In addition, bicycle riders must obey all traffic signs and signals. Just as they would do when
crossing a street, riders should look left, right and then left again before entering an intersection. PennDOT also recommends signaling your intentions before proceeding so that motorists have a chance to react.
A pamphlet with even more tips for bike safety is available from my Constituent Service Office at 900 Brookline Blvd., or contact us at (412) 343-2094 and we would be happy to mail one to you. I wish all of my constituents safe and happy riding this summer!
News from Chelsa Wagner, D-22Bicyclists need to stay safe
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The attendance in PNC Park was just under 16,000 when the Pirates brought Pedro Alvarez up from the minors for his debut against the Chicago White Sox on June 16th.
However, the faithful few who were in attendance did show support by clapping for the second overall pick in the 2008 first-year player draft when he stepped to the plate in the second inning. There was also some name chanting and some fans even stood in addition to the ovation. The at-bat ended with him swinging and missing on a full-count, 92 MPH fastball from left-hander Jason Danks.
The crowd still cheered. Following that at-bat, he went
0-for-1 with a walk and a run scored. In the six games since, the rookie
third baseman has gone 3 for 24 with one double and three RBIs and has been walked twice.
That’s not the kind of results that the Pittsburgh fan-base was looking for when they got the news that the Pirates were finally going to bring up their top power-hitting prospect.
But it can’t be terrible knowing that Alvarez is getting the on-the-job training that is required for him to effectively progress to the next level
as a professional. That night at the ballpark, each
fan received a canvas photo of Bill Mazeroski after he’d hit his famous home run to solidify a victory for the Pirates in the 1960 World Series. Maybe it would’ve been better if the Buccos handed out the same kind of photo, except with Pedro whiffing on
that pitch from Danks. That’s picturesque
to say the least. The marketing
tactics that the Pirates will have to use to actually get people to come out to the park may be a daunting task over these next few years while the organization is “rebuilding.”
Even more so, Pedro will have to find a way to produce while being the household name for one of the worst professional franchises in modern history, and that task could be even greater.
Sounds like a lose-lose situation for all parties involved, for the time being.
Yet, I wouldn’t give up hope in the long run for Alvarez and the other big names that have been leaking out of the Pirates farm system as of late.
This team truly is “under construction” and could show signs of life soon.
COLUMN: Despite rough start, don’t give up on Alvarez yetBy Malik Vincent
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Numerous community and business volunteers were awarded for their hard work in the community as well as a Northside Service Provider Award. Perhaps the highlight of the evening occurred when lifetime achievement awards were given to four long-time Northsiders for their years of service and dedication.
In all, the hundreds of guests who attended, including residents, business owners and students, reflected the spirit and hard work of the Northside. Pittsburgh City Council President Darlene Harris and Councilman Daniel Lavelle were on hand to present certificates to the nights’ many awardees.
Bistro-to-Go catered the dinner, Penn Brewery supplied the beer and desserts were sponsored by Urban Settlement Services.
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NSLC dinner had numerous award winners to celebrateFrom Dinner, page 6
$1,000 Scholarship and Laptop AwardeesAmber Mullen Spring Hill / Perry High SchoolAndrew Geisler Summer Hill / CAPAJessica Bickert Observatory Hill / Vincentian AcademyJoshua Smith Brighton Heights / Vincentian AcademyMaria Bagnato Observatory Hill / Vincentian AcademyTyler Raehn Brighton Heights / CAPA $1000 Scholarship AwardeesJennifer Dulski Troy Hill / North Catholic High SchoolBenjamin Ramsden Spring Hill / North Catholic High SchoolStephanie Skinger Brightwood / CAPADesirae Madison Brighton Heights / Oliver High SchoolSteven Scott Northview Heights / Perry High SchoolRachel Woods Observatory Hill / Winchester Thurston Academy $500 Executive Director’s Scholarship Emily Matschner, Brighton Heights / North Catholic High School Charice McCoy, Brighton Heights / Perry High School
Neighborhood and Business AwardeesDebra Caplan Allegheny General HospitalAlex Watson Allegheny West Civic Council
Donna Kramer Brighton Heights Citizens FederationTeresa Radwan Brightwood Civic GroupRandi Marshak Central Northside Neighborhood CouncilHarold Ralph Charles Street Area CouncilTom Pierce Community Alliance of Spring Garden/ East Deutschtown David Stacy East Allegheny Community CouncilWalt Spak Fineview Citizens CouncilDr. Patricia Washington Manchester Citizens Corporation Jane Sestric Observatory Hill, Inc.Shirley Jordan Perry Hilltop Citizens CouncilRobert Sobocinski Spring Hill Civic LeagueJohn Clayton Summer Hill Citizens CommitteeJan Loney Troy Hill Citizens Inc.
Northside Service Provider AwardRobert Sobocinski Steel City Boxing Association
Lifetime Achievement AwardeesMike Coleman Allegheny WestEd Brandt BrightwoodArthur and Betty Jane Ralph ManchesterMary Wohleber Troy Hill
2010 AwArdees And honors
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And then there was the asbestos fiasco, a problem the community group couldn’t skirt because of costly liability issues. Using government money forced them to pay for a study before the actual removal.
“The costs of the asbestos study [and removal] was more costly than the actual demolition,” Brandt said.
This caused anther hitch in the plans. During the asbestos removal, the BCG ran out of money. Group members went to Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, then on city council, and also to former State Rep. Don Walko. Both eventually found money to help Brightwood continue the process.
“It’s costly to build in Pittsburgh,” said David Howe, head of the URA’s residential housing subsidiary, the Pittsburgh Housing Development Corporation, which headed up the project in later years. “We’re dealing with a lot of sites that were already used, previously developed land. So once you start digging, you don’t know what you’ll find.”
The original designs were for a group of 17 or 18 single-family units. But the idea started to change when those
involved discovered the high value of having a nearby park.
“The idea here is that the green space will help to improve property values in the surrounding neighborhood,” Howe said. “I just saw a CMU study that gives empirical data about houses having $39,000 [more] value around larger parks, and we’re trying to see what that does around a smaller park.”
“You need to give a lot of credit to Rob Stephany [the executive director of the URA who pushed for the park idea],” Ed Brandt said. “I expect the city will reproduce [this open spaces concept] elsewhere.”
“We are hoping that this could be a future model for the URA and the PHDC’s development,” Howe agreed.
Two of the three units are already under a sales agreement, and the third one, according to Howe, is receiving considerable interest from a prospective buyer.
“Families will be in every unit by the end of the summer,” Howe said. “We didn’t expect that these units would sell so quickly. Brightwood hasn’t had any new construction in awhile, so it was an untested market. We were pleasantly
surprised.”The houses fall under the Act 42
enhanced area, which means their buyers receive a 10-year tax abatement that only requires them to pay taxes on the land’s worth prior to the home construction.
Based on this experience, Howe said he could imagine future housing projects in Brightwood.
“It’s nestled into the neighborhood. There’s stability on Hodgkiss Street, there’s a lot of home ownership in the area, so it has a lot going for it.”
“There was this lady who signed the original sales agreement who was part of our group, Shirley Quaquarucci, who used to say, ‘I’ll never see those new houses go up,’” recalled Ed Brandt with a laugh. “I called her a couple of weeks ago, and I said ‘Shirley, you’re going to lose your bet.’
“My mother used to say she’d never live to see it get finished, and unfortunately she was right,” Dixon said. “It was great that at the ribbon cutting, I was there to represent her.”
YINZ bY NIls ballsWashburn Square finishedWashburn Square, page 5
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News from City Council President Darlene Harris, D-1Signs offering cash for our houses demean our neighborhoods
POST NO BILLS!Our neighborhoods are being
bombarded with unsolicited, illegal signs touting how you can sell your junk cars, your house for cash or buy new windows for your home. This will not be tolerated in the city. Read the law as it’s written below:
§ 601.01 POSTING SIGNS WITHOUT CONSENT; EXCEPTIONS.
(a) No person shall paste, paint, stamp or in any manner place, affix or attach to any building, fence, bridge, gate or any other public or private property any written, printed or painted advertisement, bill, notice, sign, card or poster, without first obtaining the written consent of the owner or other person lawfully in charge or control of property. This section does
not prevent the posting of any notice required or permitted to be posted by law or order of court.
These signs serve to distract drivers. The Department of Public Works authorizes sign postings, fines those who illegally post signs and removes signs or authorizes others to pull the signs down.
Signs advising you to sell your home to them for cash particularly offend our Northside ethic. Please, if you plan on putting your home on the market, use a reputable real estate service or contact your community organization for help,
but don’t sell your home to those who post these signs.
Often the people who post these signs have no connection with our neighborhoods. They don’t plan to move here and improve the property. They plan minimal upkeep, if any, and what
was once your prized home becomes rental property for people who won’t care for the house. It pulls down the rest of our property values.
They say they are doing you and the city a service by taking your home off your hands
quickly, but often you would gain more money selling your home through reputable channels.
Many times, those who post these signs live in the suburbs and
feel our neighborhoods are not as good as theirs. It’s an affront to us.
These people think buying our houses is a get-rich-quick scheme. They target our city’s stressed, older neighborhoods, where homes may sell slower or where the owners may be going through financial difficulties.
These less than ethical people swoop in like vultures on prey. We are fine, up-standing people — not prey.
I am authorizing you to pull these signs off the telephone poles in your neighborhood. Please note the location where you found the sign and let us know.
You can give the sign to your community leaders or we’ll pick it up. We cannot tolerate these kinds of landlords in our district. Let’s work together to keep them out.
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The Game Page SudokuLast Month’s Puzzle Solutions
First published in a U.S. puzzle magazine in 1979, Sudoku caught on in Japan in 1986, and became internationally famous in 2005.
The aim of Sudoku is to enter a number from 1 through 9 in each space on a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 subgrids (called “regions”). Some of the numbers have already been given. You may not use the same number twice in a single row, column, or region of the grid. Completing the puzzle requires patience and logical ability.
Chronicle CrosswordAcross1- Group of eight; 6- Denomination; 10- British nobleman; 14- Dough; 15- York-shire river; 16- Satiate; 17- ___-ski; 18- Burden; 19- Rime; 20- Sound again, again; 22- Free; 24- Pothook shape; 26- Hidden; 27- Emblem; 31- NFL scores; 32- As-cended; 33- Legendary ruler of Crete; 36- Thunder Bay’s prov.; 39- Warts and all; 40- Chopper topper; 41- Portico; 42- Aurora’s counterpart; 43- Attacks; 44- Dis-ney mermaid; 45- Miss Piggy’s query; 46- Embryonic root; 48- Female graduate; 51- Conductor de Waart; 52- Went before; 54- Slat; 59- ___ extra cost; 60- Cham-ber; 62- Rhino relative; 63- Ballet skirt; 64- ___ account (never); 65- ___ Gay; 66- Archer of myth; 67- H.S. exam; 68- Alleviates; Down1- Actor Epps; 2- Deal (with); 3- Raced; 4- Novelist Waugh; 5- Taro; 6- ___ Paulo, Brazil; 7- Half of zwei; 8- Brutal; 9- Person who makes a will; 10- Resounds; 11- Crazy as ___; 12- Way to cook; 13- Harp relative; 21- CIA forerunner; 23- Former Fords; 25- Aegean island; 27- Dies ___; 28- Japanese soup; 29- Pitchfork-shaped letters; 30- Hi-___ monitor; 34- Give ___ rest; 35- ___ Dame; 36- Auricular; 37- Christmas; 38- Story; 40- Kerplop maker; 41- Hindu title; 43- Household; 44- Person with new parents; 45- Slimy; 47- Commercials; 48- Pianist Rubinstein; 49- Slow, musically; 50- Ages; 52- Crown of the head; 53- Lady of Spain; 55- Actress Turner; 56- Wall St. debuts; 57- Egypt’s river; 58- Ages; 61- Witty remark;
Crossword puzzles provided by www. bestcrosswords.com / Used with permsision.
