Above: The Northview Heights Family Center is due for a facelift. (Photo by Kelsey Shea). by Kelsey Shea The Northview Family Center looks closed. It’s tucked away in the woods on Hazlett Street on an overgrown lot, and the building’s entrance shrouded by a rusty awning. But despite its dilapidated ...

Next year, Flloyd McCrea will step down from his position of Pittsburgh Public Schools school board member from District 9, which includes Summer Hill, Brighton Heights, Observatory Hill and part of Brightwood. Looking to take his seat are Dr. Lorraine Burton Eberhardt, Dave Schuilenburg and Carolyn...

Data is based on recorded arm’s length sales of homes, townhomes and duplexes with a price of at least $10,000. Data was taken from RealStats and compiled by The Northside Chronicle. by Kelsey Shea The Northside housing market saw significant growth between 2011 and 2012 in almost all neighborhoods,...

Two semester’s worth of work brought seven students from Penn State to the Pittsburgh Project in Northview Heights last night to present their landscape and architectural designs for three different areas in the Northside. Students from Penn State University’s Landscape and Architecture program work...

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Several Northside neighborhoods may be without service if the Port Authority’s proposal to cut service 35 percent in the face of an almost $50 million budget deficit becomes a reality. Under the proposal, Shadeland Avenue in Brightwood and Spring Garden would be left entirely without public transpor...

Emily Matschner, left, and Charice McCoy, center, recieve $500 scholarships from Mark Fatla, executive director of the Northside Leadership Conference. (Photo/Corrie Carrington) “Simply the Best” was the theme of The Northside Leadership Conference’s 27th Annual Scholarship & Awards Dinner on June 1...

Soon, with a little help from the latest round of Charm Bracelet Project microgrants, crops will grow in community gardens, artists and writers will take to the streets and young songwriters will take to the airwaves. The Charm Bracelet Project’s Northside Microgrant Fund gives $500 to $10,000 to lo...

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