By Alyse Horn The Allegheny Elks Lodge recently awarded the Yellow Glove Project another $10,000 grant to continue the distribution of cleaning products to those who utilize the Northside Community Food Pantry. Cleaning supplies are not covered by food stamps, so handing out household cleaning items...

Photo by Alyse Horn Bill Brittain and Natasha Dean, owner and co-owner of Rescue Street Farms. By Alyse Horn The disco ball still hangs from the ceiling in the old Workingmen’s Beneficiary Union building, and posters still don the walls from the “WBU Millennium Bash: Friday, 12-31-99.” Today if you ...

Photo by Anthony Amato By Donnie Mangino In the sultry summer heat, beneath the golden evening light of June 21st, at the Alphabet City tent, 318 Sampsonia Way, the Women Writers of Northview Heights gathered for their second public reading. Inside the large white tent were rows of chairs, a stage, ...

Photo courtesy of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Library in the Park, hosted by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, will take place this summer in two Northside locations: -Northview Heights Playground, which is a new site, starts Wednesday, June 22, from 2-3:30 p.m. -Troy Hill Citizens Park, begins...

Photo courtesy of City of Asylum By Donald Mangino Originating in July 2015 at the Northview Heights Family Support Center, the Women Writers of Northview Heights was created as a vehicle for artistic and poetic expression. Meeting weekly on Thursday nights, the women of Northview Heights share poet...

Photo courtesy of Bethany House Academy According to the 2010 Census, there are about 515 children under the age of 18 and about 160 under the age of 5 who live in the Northview Heights area. By Alyse Horn For over 50 years, Bethany House Academy in Northview Heights has provided a handful of core e...

Photo by Alyse Horn A 2014 Sandwich Week sammitch. By: Neil Strebig Sandwiches, check. Beer garden, check. Ten days of deli meat, carb-loading and condiment chasing madness, check. Tonight's “Sandwich Sampler V: The Pastrami Strikes Back” officially kicks off the fifth annual Northside Sandwich Week...

Courtesy of www.sproutfund.org One Northside, a Buhl Foundation initiative, in partnership with The Sprout Fund, is offering support to those who live or work on the Northside through Neighbor-to-Neighbor Grants and One Northside Grants. Neighbor-to-Neighbor Grants of up to $1,000 can be awarded to ...

The Women Writers of Northview Heights will hold a public reading Dec. 10 at Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center in East Deutschtown. The writers will be reading their favorite personal poems and writings on life, love, family and the future. Women Writers is led by Pittsburgh artist, Hudson Rush, wh...

By Cristina Holtzer Pittsburgh’s Northside may have better schools and landlords in its future if all goes to plan. Over the next 10 to 20 years Pittsburgh’s Buhl Foundation plans to spend $40 to $60 million dollars revitalizing the Northside, hoping to make it a place where residents feel proud. Th...