Recent comments in /f/pittsburgh

Jupichan t1_j6lukuh wrote

Scott township has a goofed up address because some jagoff in the postal service beefed with some other jag in Scott like over a hundred years ago and decreed that we will never have our own zipcode, nor our own post office (but there used to be one beneath the crooked bridge) and our border lines were going to be forever wonky, so our "sense of community" would forever be confused.

You can write that we have a Pittsburgh address, you can write Carnegie, it doesn't matter.

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InevitablePersimmon6 OP t1_j6lugx2 wrote

I guess I should have put on here that I only like breakfast food lol. Like I just get eggs, bacon, and toast. Sometimes a hash brown. As long as it’s a clean restaurant and it has non-fancy breakfast and I don’t have to go downtown then I’m happy.

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__she__wolf t1_j6lse9r wrote

Huge blow to the Pgh restaurant scene. This is a destination spot for out-of-towners, vegans, vegetarians, and metal heads. Even people who enjoy meat can’t deny that their food is amazing. Black Forge shut down their Allentown location and now this. I’m bummed for the neighborhood. I hope the owners get their respite and decide to come back someday soon! And let’s not make assumptions as to WHY they came to this decision. Life is nuts. Shit happens. I wish them all the best.

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DennisG47 t1_j6lrgbe wrote

It seems to me that those who are taking exception to the editorial are long on criticism and short on near term solutions. Let's say for starters, that we raise the minimum wage to $18 an hour within Allegheny County. How is that going to impact the drug trade, the violence culture, gun ownership and usage and the feeling that seems to be universal around downtown, that the city is my personal garbage can. I went downtown last fall and noticed that Fort Duquesne Blvd. looked like a garbage dump. The city has made an effort to make that area more hospitable but it seems to require a round the clock presence to stop the alcohol use, the trashing of the benches, sidewalks and greenery and general lack of healthy outdoor ambience. It is horrible. I called the city to report it and when I went back all the trash had been swept up into piles but not picked up and put into bins. Cans were full but I am sure the first good wind must have blown everything back where it was. One thing that can be done within the city is the adoption of some form of rent control. Pittsburgh is such a small city that when an area becomes popular and gentrified it has a huge impact all over. Now, they are planning new upper class housing on the Civic Arena site. Subsidized housing is an absolute necessity. Who would ever have thought the day would come when working people could not afford to live in Lawrenceville, the South Side or Mt. Washington. This has to be corrected.

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