Greenfield News

A public hearing about a situation on Ivondale Street in Greenfield was held Thursday night.

A public meeting was held in Pittsburgh's Greenfield neighborhood Thursday to discuss how the city should deal with abandoned properties on Ivondale Street.

Neighbors could find out this week how the city of Pittsburgh will deal with problematic abandoned properties on Ivondale Street in Greenfield.

The Tibetan Bon tradition dates back to the Buddha Tonpa Shenrab, who lived about 18,000 years ago.

Greetings from Downtown Pittsburgh, where the streets have been given over almost entirely to concrete dividers and black Cadillacs with diplomatic plates.

A couple, searching for a place to develop their talents and raise their children, never even considered Pittsburgh, until a fateful road trip to visit old friends put their search into sharp focus.

A group of ACLU legal obsevers were on hand in Greenfield tonight when dozens of police officers in squad cars, vans and a hazardous materials truck pulled up near Murray Avenue, where a group of G-20 protesters were meeting.

Share + Sep 21, 2009 9:55 pm US/Eastern GREENFIELD Organizers with the G-20 Resistance Project have set up an information center.

Just two weeks before the G-20 summit, the anarchists and anti-authoritarians in the Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project, long meeting in private to plan protests, are about to open a public meeting space on a busy corner in Greenfield.

The vacant lot is strewn with weeds and discarded soda cans. Is it really a property worth preserving? In a perplexing repeat of local history, some people in Greenfield seem to think so.

The vacant lot is strewn with weeds and discarded soda cans. Is it really a property worth preserving? In a perplexing repeat of local history, some people in Greenfield seem to think so.

Paul McCarthy, 62, of Greenfield, next to some trash that remained after he cleaned up the hillside and sidewalk.

Dozens of gravestones -- more than 100 at last count -- were found toppled over by vandals last week, causing tens of thousands of dollars of damage inside Calvary Cemetery.

Jill King Greenwood can be reached via e-mail or at 412-321-2160. A Squirrel Hill man waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday on charges he pulled an 11-year-old girl into a vacant Greenfield house as she walked home from school and raped her.

Share + Jul 1, 2009 5:48 pm US/Eastern 1 of 1 The father of an 11-year-old rape victim wonders why the house on Ivondale Street hasn't been torn down.

Dozens of gravestones -- at least 90 -- were found toppled over and damaged inside Calvary Cemetery in Pittsburgh's Greenfield neighborhood Wednesday morning.

A slide between Clayton and Perrysville avenues, North Side. Amid a tangle of felled trees and dirt, a yellow bucket crane sits along the hillside above Perrysville Avenue, just below an orange umbrella on the deck of a townhouse.

Ah, the traditions of a Pittsburgh summer: fireworks, drives to Page Dairy Mart ... and massive algae blooms in Schenley Park's Panther Hollow Lake .

Arson investigators were called to a vacant house fire in Pittsburgh's Greenfield neighborhood overnight.

Phones haven't stopped ringing at local restoration businesses, and already tired workers are gearing up for what looks like even more storms this afternoon.