News Around the Neighborhood
Please Join Us Tomorrow for a Celebratory Check Presentation for the Renovation of the Allegheny YMCA
Please join us for a celebratory check presentation
Tuesday, February 7 at 10:30 am
Allegheny YMCA Gymnasium | 600 W. North Avenue
Small group tours will be available following a brief program.
The Allegheny YMCA Gymnasium will be closed for the duration of the event.
A CATALYTIC PROJECT
This project entails the renovation and update of all common spaces, the kitchen, fitness facilities including the wellness floor, pool area and locker rooms, and meeting rooms. 96 single room occupancy (SRO) units will be renovated on the 3rd, 4th and 5th floors with a new configuration that replaces shared bathrooms with private facilities and provides a much-needed community room for the residents. Rooms and corridor renovations will include flooring, painting and ceilings. Additional work will include replacement of mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems and installation of a sprinkler system. Air-conditioning and new elevators will be added. The renovations will use high quality, environmentally friendly materials. The SRO units will be designed with thoughtful floor plans and natural light. This renovation ensures that the entire building is fully ADA assessable.
Other important amenities for the residents of the Allegheny Y include access to the wellness facility and swimming pool, daily NA and AA group meetings within walking distance, access to local feeding programs and a small community garden providing fresh produce.
This Valentine’s Day, Choose Park Flowers That Endure
What better way to show that your love endures than to plant perennials in the parks that will last a lifetime? This Valentine’s Day, make a gift to the Perennial Fund to have flowers planted in a loved one’s name. Better than buying a bouquet that you would toss after a few days, these perennials will bloom year after year, a sign of your perpetual love.
Our dedicated staff and volunteers will tend to your gift to the parks. So let perennials be the perfect reminder of your enduring love this Valentine’s Day.
When you make a gift to the Perennial Fund, your special someone will receive an eCard notification in time for Valentine’s Day.
Pittsburgh Plan for Peace: Northside Update
Thursday, November 17 from 5:00-6:30 pm
Museum Lab @ Children’s Museum
6 Allegheny Square East (Parking at 10 Children’s Way)
November Street Cleaning Reminder
Please remind our community that this month’s street cleaning is split into 2 weeks: The Tuesday cleaning should happen on November 8th, while the Monday side hopefully will be cleaned on November 14th.
PHLF: Walking Tour of Deutschtown
Saturday, October 29
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
$20.00 per person
This is an in-person tour and is limited to 20 participants. (Tickets will not be available after October 28.)
Click here to purchase a ticket.
Pittsburgh’s East Allegheny neighborhood was nicknamed Deutschtown because most of the area’s early settlers were from Germany. (“Deutschtown” literally means “Germantown.”) Joining them were large numbers from Switzerland, Austria, and Croatia. By the late 19th century, it was a thriving community with established businesses and institutions. Although a 1970s interstate highway project bisected the Deutschtown area, causing the demolition of buildings and displacement of hundreds of people, the community retains a large part of its historic architectural fabric.
Join our docents as they reveal the rich history of this eclectic neighborhood. The tour will take participants through the Deutschtown Historic District and the E. Ohio Street business district, which lie in the western half of the neighborhood. It includes a wide range of building types, from well-preserved historic homes to old structures repurposed for contemporary uses—and an Elks Lodge that hosts the Pittsburgh Banjo Club every week.
PHLF: Walking Tour of the Strip District
Tuesday, October 25
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
$20.00 per person
This is an in-person tour and is limited to 20 participants. (Tickets will not be available after October 24.)
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The Strip District is a vibrant amalgamation of Pittsburgh’s past, present, and imagined future. It is probably best known locally for food sellers and other businesses that reflect the neighborhood’s long immigrant history. In its 200-plus-year history, however, the Strip has been a site of industry, the region’s wholesale produce distribution hub, a center for nighttime dining and entertainment, and, most recently, home to Pittsburgh’s burgeoning technology sector.
The Strip’s ongoing evolution is mirrored in its architecture. Across a sprawling neighborhood, you will see everything from a small, two-story building constructed as a public bathhouse in 1911 to recent office buildings for the technology companies that have given the Strip a new nickname, “Robotics Row.” Preservation and repurposing of historic buildings have been key to the revitalization of the Strip in the last 20 years, and the tour will center on the historic buildings through which the Strip’s fascinating history is told.
Discounted Tickets for Northsiders: Somewhere Strange
Vida Chai’s Somewhere Strange
October 13-14
Tickets: $20-30
“I have some incredible musicians with me on this project. I have Dan Miller on Upright Bass, Ryan Socrates on Percussion, and Gray Buchanan on Fiddle. I’m really excited to share this project with Pittsburgh – I hope you’ll join us!”
Somewhere Strange is an immersive musical experience that hopes to envelop your senses and intrigue your imagination… Chai has a hope for each audience member after seeing, Somewhere Strange. ‘I just want people to feel seen and less alone in their experience,’ says Chai.”
Vanessa Reseland, Recital Magazine
NORTHSIDE PROMO CODE:
NS23
Use this promo code at checkout to apply the discount.
Proposed Bylaw changed presented at the Oct. 11, 2022 AWCC Membership Meeting
By popular demand and a recommendation from the Executive Committee the Allegheny West Civic Council Bylaws Committee has resumed working on an updated bylaws. Committee members are Bob Malakoff, Mary Callison and Tim Zinn.
Any suggestions and comments should be sent to Bob Malakoff (bobmalakoff@verizon.net, 913 Brighton Road 15233) or you can call 412 321-3612.
Resources
- The current set of bylaws: <here>.
- Summary of the proposed changes: Summary of AWCC Bylaws changes
- Full text of the Bylaws with the proposed changes: Proposed AWCC Bylaws October 2022 22-10-11
PHLF: Downtown Walking Tour of Fourth Avenue Historic District
Thursday, October 11
6:00 pm to 7:15 pm
$20.00 per person
This is an in-person tour and is limited to 20 participants.
(Tickets will not be available after October 10.)
Click here to purchase a ticket.
The Fourth Avenue Historic District encompasses a remarkable variety of buildings. From a Greek Revival building of 1836 to cast-iron-front structures of the 1870s and 1880s, to a majestic quartet of early-20th-century skyscrapers, the district includes distinguished structures designed by more than a dozen eminent Pittsburgh architects.
The tour focuses on the portion of the area once known as “Pittsburgh’s Wall Street” for its concentration of buildings that served the financial and investment industries. We also will see how old buildings are being re-purposed for contemporary uses and explore PPG Place—the postmodernist “cathedral of commerce” that brings full circle the fascinating story of this narrow but mightily impressive street.
Queerness and the Natural World
Presented with Autumn House Press
Queer Nature
Tuesday, October 11
7:00 pm
Queer Nature is a groundbreaking anthology of more than 200 LGBTQIA+ poets writing about nature. Tuesday’s program, presented with Pittsburgh publisher Autumn House Press, features readings from 10 contributing poets and a discussion with the collection’s editor Michael Walsh.
In the collection and in the evening’s readings, you will find love poems, meditations on queer bodies, laments for the world we are destroying, poems of survival, and calls for environmental justice.
The 200 poets represent gifted and renowned contemporary artists situated next to masterful queer poets of the past including Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Frank O’Hara, Audre Lorde, Thom Gunn, Adrienne Rich, and more.
The anthology is a beautiful expansion to the canon of nature poetry and a loving field guide to life right now. We hope you’ll join our moving and celebratory evening.
About your visit: The in-house restaurant 40 North will be closed but a cash bar will be available.