North Side Community Conversation Date: August 9 Location: Penn Brewery - Ratskeller Party Room (800 Vinial Street) Time: 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. This community meeting, though held on the Northside, isn't about the Northside specifically, but about the larger Southwestern PA/Maryland/Ohio/West Virginia re...

Houses in the Central Northside Pittsburgh City Living, the city website geared toward outsiders where you can find your "perfect neighborhood match," still needs residents from a large number of neighborhoods to write testimonials for the site. Testimonial writing for neighborhoods apparently isn't...

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Photo courtesy stock.xchng Brighton Heights resident Jennifer Shaffer and a group of her gamer friends are proving that girls who love video games (and live on the Northside!) are not only awesome, but dedicated and conscientious. The weekend of Friday, Aug. 20 (and possibly beyond that), Jennifer a...

A drawing of S&A Homes's proposal for the Central Northside. (Image courtesy S&A Homes) Sometimes it takes a seemingly impossible goal to bring about great change. That’s one of the reasons the Central Northside Neighborhood Council added a year to its vision statement: “By the end of 2015 CNNC will...

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Walking through the archway at Penn Brewery is like entering a Nuremberg castle. The stately building, located at 800 Vinial Street at the foot of Troy Hill, reopened its restaurant to serve faithful patrons who missed the owners, Tom and Mary-Beth Pastorius, their award winning Penn Pilsner, and of...

A rendering of the proposed soccer field by J. T. Sauer & Associates.   Pending an okay from the state Department of Environmental Protection, the City of Pittsburgh is ready to break ground on the $1.6 million Riverview Park soccer field, finally. Originally, construction on the field was set to st...

Just as eager as the kids that play there, Central Northside residents packed the Children’s Museum’s lower level on Monday, July 19 to hear from four developers on their proposals for the Garden Theater block. Choosing a developer won’t be easy, but it will require the full community’s input, said ...

This map shows one of three possible road alterations. This option would connect Behan Street and Jabok Way, both currently dead ends, to W. North Avenue. Allegheny West, the smallest neighborhood on the Northside, could get a whole lot bigger in terms of residents. That’s because the Allegheny West...