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Views from Tryp Wyndham
Monday the 13th
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Our Lady of the Pentacle and myself had set a summertime goal, wherein we’d be visiting some seven rooftop bar/restaurant situations here in Pittsburgh during the summer. We have only made it to two of them.
One of them was downtown, atop one of the fancy hotels.
The second that we did manage to visit was the Tryp Wyndham’s ‘Over Eden’ rooftop space just as September began. Lovely views, btw,
– photo by Mitch Waxman
That’s the 40th Street Bridge, pictured above. On the other side of the river is Rialto Street and the neighborhood of Troy Hill. The Tryp hotel itself is housed in a converted municipal building found in the Lawrenceville section.
We had arrived with the intention of ‘dinner and drinks,’ so the car had been left at home and we used an Uber rideshare to get here.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
It seems like a nice place to live, Lawrenceville, but as I’ve mentioned in the past – the gentrification furnaces have been stoked hereabouts. Property prices and rents are substantially higher here than in neighboring areas. To make an NYC real estate related analogy, this ‘zone’ is currently Pittsburgh’s North Brooklyn.
Also, I’m enjoying the lack of ‘urbanity’ we’ve got in Dormont.
The drinks were cocktails, and I had a cruise ship style rum punch. Our Lady went all classy and ordered a dirty gin Martini. The food was ok, but nothing to write home about. It’s the view they’re selling.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
That church keeps on jumping out at me whenever I’m passing through this area, which I’ve been working my way since the early summer. Next time…
Just as the burning thermonuclear eye of god itself is dipping down behind Ohio, that’s when you want to be up here.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Just look at how much of that ‘affordable housing’ is used as a parking garage. I mean… you gotta park somewhere, and I guess it’s part of the ‘sell,’ but the garage is quite a bit bigger than the dwelling.
Funnily enough, the ‘bicycle people’ are currently asserting themselves in this neighborhood, pushing the ‘safe streets’ agenda and labeling anyone who opposes their plans as atavist primitives who love to murder people while behind the wheel. I once had one of the ‘bicycle people’ in Queens tell me that ‘the second a car key is inserted in the ignition, the driver exists in state of pre-murder.’ Ideologues, gotta hate ‘em.
Same person once referred to automobiles as ‘Mobile Oppression Platforms,’ which is why I named my car the ‘M.O.P.’
– photo by Mitch Waxman
That’s the view from the Tryp rooftop at sunset. I’m planning on stopping off here in the future, especially so on nights when there’s lots of clouds. Must look absolutely incredible, this view, during overcast conditions, at sunset.
Back tomorrow with something different.
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