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Quick Getaway to Lawrenceville

December 4, 2009

Fun factor: 10. It doesn't get any better than this.

Annual Joy of Cookies tour: Shop locally, eat locally in Lawrenceville

December 2, 2009

Lawrenceville's annual "Joy of Cookies" cookie tour is back on Butler Street, uniting local business with sweet teeth around the city.

With 200 additional racks, city nearly doubles bike parking spaces

November 4, 2009

The City will install bike racks in the Strip District, Bloomfield, South Side, Polish Hill, Squirrel Hill, Carrick, Lawrenceville, Friendship, Garfield, Shadyside and Brookline, and will install more upon request and evaluation. Businesses can request bike racks online at www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us. Requests will be assessed by the City's Bike Ped Coorinator.

Survey of library branches facing ax finds plenty of activity

October 28, 2009

Building many libraries to serve city neighborhoods was always part of Andrew Carnegie's philanthropic plan. Eight years before the main library that bears his name opened in Oakland, he offered $1 million to the City of Pittsburgh for a system that included branches. Now that system is threatened by declining government revenue and rising costs. The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh plans to close four of its 19 branches by February, three of them in neighborhoods where the first ones opened by 1900 -- Lawrenceville, Hazelwood and the West End.

Ravenstahl: Funds could give Carnegie Library time to reconsider plan

October 25, 2009

When Hank Jedema passes through the Lawrenceville branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, he sees children sitting at computers with the world at their fingertips.

Hundreds turn out for meeting on Carnegie Library closings, merger

October 24, 2009

About 250 people attended a public meeting with city and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh officials to protest a plan to close branches in Beechview, Lawrenceville, the West End and Hazelwood, and merge the Carrick and Knoxville branches by February.

Pittsburgh, Three Ways

September 15, 2009

"I have to go to Pittsburgh," you moan to your friends, dreading the prospect of 48 hours in a city you dimly recall from a forced 1980 family trip: a dreary downtown, surrounded by sleepy hills and dirty rivers. Though you've heard the buzz about the city's selection as host of the G-20 summit this week and its recent rankings as the nation's "most livable" city, you privately assume that if it's livable, it's lame.

Pitt Stop

July 14, 2009

ALONG the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, the mills, foundries and factories that once produced iron, glass and aluminum now house sleek, artsy lofts. Technology and pharmaceutical firms have replaced the city's obsolete steel industry. Boutiques and restaurants have sprung up along streets in once-dying neighborhoods. Where once there were choking fumes from coke works, today there's the smell of roasting organic coffee.

URA re-releases RFP for Heppenstall site in Lawrenceville

July 1, 2009

The Urban Redevelopment Authority is looking for a new firm to develop new residential properties on what it describes as “the largest residential footprint available in Lawrenceville.”

Stephen Foster really did write songs the whole world sang

June 28, 2009

The building sits in the perpetual shadow of the Cathedral of Learning, wrought from Indiana limestone, punctuated by stained-glass windows designed by Charles J. Connick. Dedicated in 1937, it is passed every day by thousands of commuters and students who give it little, if any, thought.

#23 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Y'unz Guys Gotta See Da 'Burgh!

May 15, 2009

Lawrenceville in the New York Post! (Pittsburgh named #23 of 100 destinations under six hours from New York City).

The Five-Point Weekend Escape Plan: Scout Pittsburgh’s Emerging Art Scene

May 7, 2009

Lawrenceville in New York Magazine!

City making plans for Allegheny riverfront

April 29, 2009

As the wind whipped unchecked across a former Lawrenceville steel site yesterday, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl launched a year-long planning effort aimed at transforming large stretches of abandoned, undeveloped, or ill-used Allegheny riverfront into havens for jobs, housing and recreation.

A decade of decisions shaped new Childrens' Hospital

April 26, 2009

For two years, hospital officials rolled dice in a real-life game of Monopoly and hopped property to property on the Pittsburgh game board to find the best site to build a new hospital.

The new Children's Hospital: Design elements combine to put patients, parents at ease

April 26, 2009

Antonela Kasic has spent far too much time in hospitals during her young life, but on a recent visit she experienced something entirely new -- a transformation, of sorts.

Diamond in the rust

April 25, 2009

For urbanist Florida, Lawrenceville and Pittsburgh face the same challenge: to attract and hold enough of the new “creative class”, building a critical mass and taking advantage of the new geography of work. Success at this will be the key to ensuring that the hard times really do “come again no more”.

Lawrenceville featured in Financial Times of London

April 25, 2009

Urban studies theorist Richard Florida has called Lawrenceville “an example of the kind of place that can be a ‘next neighborhood’.”

Photo Essay: The New Children's Hospital in Lawrenceville

April 15, 2009

Slide show of the new Children's Hospital in Lawrenceville.

Boomerangers: Goodbye, Hello Again!

February 18, 2009

Among other young professionals, Maya Haptas, LC's Business District Manager and Lilith Bailey-Kroll, owner of Pratique Yoga in Lawrenceville, comment on why they've decided to move back to Pittsburgh!

Newsmaker: Michael Devine

February 15, 2009

Michael Devine, owner of Zombo Gallery, is featured in the Trib!

Improve your home or find some place new

February 9, 2009

The Trib explores living in the North Side, Downtown, Lawrenceville, and more.

A facelift in Lawrenceville

January 17, 2009

Restoring the facade of a 125-year-old row house in Lawrenceville is no small feat. Anne Davis did it so well that she was named a runner-up in the small project category of the PG's Renovation Inspiration Contest.

Children's Hospital Plans For Big Move

January 9, 2009

What does it take to move a major metropolitan hospital across town? Pittsburgh will be finding out for itself just a few months from now.