Archive for December 30th, 2024
Hazelwood, too
Monday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
That’s an Allegheny Valley RR freight train pictured above, sitting pretty in CSX’s Glenwood Yard, alongside the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood section. This time around, your humble narrator was out scouting while behind the steering wheel of the Mobile Oppression Platform, a Toyota. I pulled over right next to the ‘No Trespassing’ signage for the rail yard, btw. Rules.
As mentioned last week, Hazelwood is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh which is regarded as having a ferocious reputation by the locals. The ‘Yinzers’ react to the statement ‘I’m going to Hazelwood’ with the same worried intensity that you’d get from a New Yorker if you said ‘I’m going to walk around East New York with a camera today.’
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The St. Stephen Catholic Church building, above, caught my eye and caused me to wonder about all of the tan colored bricks that I’ve observed around the city. They’re ubiquitous, thereby most probably locally produced and budget friendly at the time… There’s always something new/old to learn. Look at the revelations offered by a bit of research back in Astoria that was aimed at the sort of bricks used to construct the ‘Matthew’s Model Flat’ residential blocks.
This is Pittsburgh’s ‘Second Avenue,’ as a note, heading roughly southeast and along the northern shore of the Monongahela, moving away from the so called ‘Golden Triangle’ of the downtown business and political center.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The steel and coke mills are long gone. Pittsburgh’s showrunners in City Hall have arranged a development scheme along the 150 and change waterfront acres here, one which has been decades in the making. Soil remediation is meant to be completed, and ‘affordable housing’ is on the way – which will bring hundreds of jobs and solve all of Hazelwood’s problems virtually overnight. Just ask the Politicians and the landlords, they’ll tell you so.
A rise in Real Estate valuations fixes all of America’s problems.
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