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T he i n de p e n d e n t s t ude nt ne w spap e r of t he U niversity of Pittsburgh | April 5, 2018 | Volume 108 | Issue 142
EDITION
Northview Heights provides refuge in Pittsburgh
Bint Amiri, a Somali native, moved to Northview Heights after living in America for 20 years. Christian Snyder | MULTIMEDIA EDITOR This is Northview Heights — and within its fences is a living conglomeration of culContributing Editor tures and languages. It is also a Pittsburgh Fumbling for their IDs at the entrance, public housing project — one of six in the first-time visitors to Northview Heights are City. Other housing projects are located in often surprised when they see they must presSouthside, Hazelwood, Homewood, the ent identification to get onto the grounds. Northside and the Hill District. Once past the initial guard station, visitors The City of Pittsburgh annexed Northview are met with 200 security cameras turned on Heights, sitting alone atop a hill, in the early the neighborhood. Tall metal gates hold in the 1930s. Because of its geographic isolation, getcommunity on all sides. But it’s clearly not a ting down to the City wasn’t easy, and trucks prison, considering the rows upon rows of had to deliver groceries and other goods up to houses — some with doors wide open, neighthe neighborhood’s residents. bors chatting in front yards, and swaths of And according to Valerie Lauw, Northchildren in T-shirts throwing a football.
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Northview Heights resident Valerie Lauw poses for a portrait in her apartment. John Hamilton | MANAGING EDITOR view Heights resident and president of the neighborhood’s tenant council, that hasn’t changed much. “We’re surrounded by a forest,” she said. “You can’t see us unless you have a plane.” Chuck Rohrer, spokesperson for the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh, agreed. It’s “not close or in walking distance to much,” he said of the neighborhood. The neighborhood, once almost exclusively African-American, has become home to the influx of refugees and immigrants from diverse parts of the world who come to Pittsburgh for its affordable housing options and
access to public transportation. A large portion are from African countries like Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but the largest population comes from Somalia. For perspective, Northview Heights had a population of 1,587 in 2017. Of that number, roughly 385 are Somali Bantu — an ethnic minority group forced out during the Somali Civil War in the 1980s and 1990s. Many Bantus living in Northview Heights today came after spending several years in Kenyan refugee camps. See Northview on page 8
Women hone craft at Art House in
H O M E WO O D Shahum Ajmal Staff Writer As Vanessa German and a group of artists were about to settle in for a night of writing and discussion in her house, a car crash outside derailed the March evening. The group witnessed an altercation between the victim of the crash and police officers who responded to the scene, and feeling that the victim appeared unsafe, the artists began to document the incident with their cell phones. “People think that the sound of listening to a woman scream in the street is something they’re used to, but when you actually have to hear it and see it, it really takes you out of everything that is ordinary,” German said. Afterward, the group returned inside so each person could write and reflect from their own perspective, carrying on with their weekly ritual. The Tuesday Night Monologue Project is a weekly event held Tuesday evenings at 41-year-old artist German’s Art House in Homewood — a creative space she transformed into a living community, open to the public anytime its front doors are open. “I really believe that there is great human connection and depth of understanding that can come if you can sit with people and listen to their stories,” German said. “It’s really difficult to superimpose and fictionalize and make simply romantic and parade the myth of your own point of view when someone is in your face telling you their story.” Though TNMP is only open to women — and those who are transgender and gender nonconforming — participants have come from surrounding towns, like the South Hills and Wilkinsburg, and comprise an intergenerational group with ages ranging from 19 to 65.
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The Tuesday Night Monologue Project, in which female-only guests are invited to participate in writing workshops and share responses to prompts, is held in Vanessa German’s Art House in Homewood. John Hamilton | MANAGING EDITOR
E ach week, guest artists and writers come in to facilitate writing workshops and assign prompts, which the participants then write on and share with each other. At the end of each season, works are compiled and displayed in evenings of performances. “You can imagine people from all around the Pittsburgh region coming to what is literally the zone prize high-
crime hotspot in the City of Pittsburgh and doing a performance, and us selling out shows in the backyard of an art house in Homewood,” German said. In the past, workshops and prompts have revolved around ideas of justice, race, love and intersections of all of those concepts. The first “season” of TNMP spanned five months beginning last January under the theme of Powerful and Dangerous — in reference to an Audre Lorde quote. The current season began this past January with the theme of Sex and the Body. The theme of Sex and the Body came about when nine people from the project were causally bouncing around the
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idea of creating a TNMP midnight session that would focus on the idea of normalizing sexual agency, having control over your sexuality and reasserting love. The midnight aspect, as German realized, would not convey the message they hoped. “We decided to take it seriously and not have it be something that was the midnight sessions, because you talk about these things only in hidden and set-aside places with lowlights,” German said. Deesha Philyaw, a 46-year-old writer from Wilkinsburg, has led two sessions at TNMP. One focused on the word “prone” and how it’s represented throughout a lifetime. For the other, Philyaw had audience members write pieces that stood up to the lies they’ve been told about sex and their bodies. See Homewood on page 5
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Brookline Las Palmas takes laid-back approach to Mexican food
Pedro Cuobo lays out house-made tortillas for tacos at Las Palmas Pittsburgh #1 in Brookline. Christian Snyder | MULTIMEDIA EDITOR
Jeremy Wang Senior Columnist As I crossed the Monongahela River and into the tunnel under Mount Washington, I realized I was entering into a part of Pittsburgh — the South Hills — I’d never seen before. Driving up a steep road into the neighborhood of Brookline, the surroundings were cold, windy and empty — with the exception of three individuals angrily shouting at each other as they walked down the street. And from more than a block away, the steam rising from the hot Las Palmas grill was clearly visible. As a Pitt student living in Oakland, I can say that Las Palmas tacos have formed the foundation of my food pyramid. For the past year, I’ve averaged a taco a day from the restaurant’s location on Atwood Street. Some weeks, I ate at Las Palmas every single day. Strangers’ porches surrounding Las Palmas have formed the background for both my professional and personal life, hosting meetings with family, friends and professors.
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But the Las Palmas in Brookline had a distinctly different atmosphere from the Las Palmas in Oakland. Whereas the Atwood Las Palmas is brightly lit and corridos music loudly played from both indoor and outdoor speakers, the Brookline Las Palmas was more subdued and tranquil. At the cash register was Flora Lavernia, a 46-year-old woman who left Cuba five years ago with her husband to find more opportunities and better socioeconomic conditions for her family. Lavernia and her husband first went to Ecuador, later coming to Pittsburgh. She’s worked at the Las Palmas Brookline location ever since she immigrated to the United States. Speaking through a translator, she was quick to emphasize her appreciation for the neighborhood’s quiet and peaceful atmosphere. Pedro Cuobo, 34, worked the grill outside. The Venezuelan immigrated to the United States three years ago. Like Lavernia, Cuobo left his home country in search of better opportunities. He originally See Brookline on page 4
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Brookline, pg. 3 worked his way around southern California before ending up in the South Hills of Pittsburgh. Cuobo was never a professional cook but learned through his upbringing. At home, every member of the household cooked, and there was no shortage of opportunities to pick up on techniques. The home cooking background quickly showed — Cuobo grilled thickly sliced steak and onions and crisped up the tortillas. Every bite featured an outer crunch met with a flavorful steak filling. Las Palmas tacos are some of the best tacos to be had north of Texas, but what sets them apart isn’t just their corn tortillas or grilled meats. It’s their legendary topping selection. The sauces range from spicy to weapons-grade spice that’ll put the fear of God into any yinzer. Las Palmas is particularly renowned for its “green sauce,” a creamy and spicy guacamole much thinner than most guacs found in Americanized Mexican restaurants. No Las Palmas taco is complete without a generous helping of its guacamole — the tub of guac is almost always the first to
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Pedro Cuobo scoops chicken into two corn tortillas at Las Palmas Pittsburgh #1 in Brookline. Christian Snyder | MULTIMEDIA EDITOR run out each day. As we went back out the store’s front door and into the chilly, early April weather, I can’t deny I was missing the familiarity of my favorite Atwood location. But
leaving Brookline, I realized the neighborhood had a certain charm that the Pittdominated streets of Oakland couldn’t claim — the quiet restfulness of an outer Pittsburgh neighborhood combined with
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a dash of Central American flavor at Las Palmas. Jeremy primarily writes on gun policy and violent crime (and tacos) for The Pitt News. Write to Jeremy at jiw115@pitt.edu.
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Homewood, pg. 2 “TNMP is important because we’re living in a time of inauthenticity and brutality and hate and ruthlessness,” Philyaw said. “And we counter that with our voices. With truth, with love, with rage, with compassion, with healing and with touch.” Philyaw said her contributions have typically focused on transitional moments of great significance in her life, such as getting a divorce and losing her mother to cancer in 2005. This type of deep emotional expression is the very basis for TNMP. The idea came to German after a white woman shamed her for not attending the Women’s March last year — citing its peacefulness as opposed to Black Lives Matter protests. As a black woman, German saw a “painful irony” in this and was inspired to create an outlet for personal storytelling in the form of TNMP. Tyra Jamison, a 19-year-old student, poet and artist raised in the Hill District, took up the opportunity to facilitate a session for TNMP. A student at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Jamison’s first workshop centered on the theme of an authentic voice, and the second was on sex work. “I noticed that ‘feminist’ conversations around sex work were often very negative, which is wild because I’m sure everyone knows & loves someone who does sex work,” Jamison wrote in an email. “It’s just any other job honestly.” For Jamison, TNMP is a platform that gives women — specifically black women and femmes, or lesbians who appear traditionally feminine — a chance to have their time and wisdom valued. “It’s how we can learn from each other and connect with each other,” Jamison said. German said she strives to make the creative space of Art House as accessible to the community as walking into the grocery store and grabbing a bag of chips. “We live in an incredible stressful world and art is healing — the process of making things is very healing,” German said. “So if it is that medicinal, then it ought to be available.” Last year’s end-of-year performance took place in a tent in the Art House backyard, which freed German from the constraints of waiting to implement her ideas until she applied for and received grants. Instead of paying for a performance venue, the artists used the stage German built — which the neighborhood kids use to dance and perform skits. “Last year it was really special to have a performance experience where your citizenship of Pittsburgh was present in a way that was visceral,” German said. “We performed to the sounds of the streets.”
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FORMER FILM ROW FINDS NEW LIFE IN START UP
The Paramount Film Exchange building, built in 1926, supplied theaters with early looks at upcoming films and posters. John Hamilton | MANAGING EDITOR
Joanna Li Staff Writer As a teenager, movie fanatic Drew Levinson noticed a run-down brick building with a familiar logo — 24 stars circling a mountain — as he passed it on his way to crew practice from Taylor Allderdice High School. The building sat in the back of his mind until 2009, when he stumbled across a film contest held by the Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh about the preservation of an endangered building in western Pennsylvania. “Besides the prestige of having been an actual film studio, there must have been history, and I knew it would have won first place,” Levinson said. “It’s amazing that it happened the way it did, and it was almost like it was meant for me to do it.” Utilizing all the resources he could, Levinson, now 30, was quickly guided by his screenwriting teacher at Pittsburgh Filmmakers to experts and national records. He eventually unraveled a more complex story than he expected in his contest entry video. “It was like discovering a hidden treasure, because everybody knew something different about the building and they had suggestions,” Levinson said. “[The video] doesn’t necessarily look good — but I guess what I’m saying is that I sort of knew the material would speak for itself, and I wasn’t caring about the whistles and bells of how I filmed it.” Between Oakland and Downtown, along the Monongahela River sits Uptown, an art- and history-filled neighborhood that played an important role in the early 20th century, at a time
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when Pittsburgh was at the forefront of the film industry. Along what is today’s Boulevard of the Allies were several film exchanges from notable film companies such as Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros. and RKO Pictures. Essentially, these film exchanges were a way for film companies to supply theaters with early looks at the upcoming films and their posters. With the multitude of celluloid films they carried, together the companies created what became known as “Film Row.” The last remaining building from “Film Row” in its original form is the Paramount Film Exchange building at 1727 Boulevard of the Allies. Built in 1926 by R.E. Hall Co., the square brick building still carries many of its early features — most recognizably the Paramount Pictures logo made of tiles that spans across the width of the side entrance. With the new technology of the film industry came the slowing of film exchanges until the late 1960s, when they essentially became obsolete and were left vacant. Eventually being occupied by a pest control business and then taken over by UPMC, the Paramount building went through multiple ownerships but no major renovations. After Levinson submitted the video, Dan Holland, a fifth-year graduate history student at Pitt who was director of YPA at the time, immediately saw the potential for the building to be successfully deemed a historical landmark — especially considering the possible demolition of the building into another parking lot. “We’re sort of like pioneers,” Holland said. “We go out and find those buildings that are neglected but have great potential — that we know
can be great investments for individuals and companies and that can be success stories.” Touring the building in person, Holland knew it would need work, especially as it sat unused for more than 20 years. However, he also knew that the building was structurally sound — the bones of the building were still in good condition. During the nomination process, Levinson and Holland worked together with the YPA to not only generate interest among the public, but to prove that demolishing was not the right direction for a vacant historic building in a developing neighborhood. From jumping and dancing with signs, bells and noisemakers along the sidewalk as runners race by to directly campaigning at people’s doorsteps, “Save the Paramount” became a trademark slogan for the YPA during several commissions, hearings and votes. “I like to look at it like a military campaign — you don’t want to lead troops down into battle and then get slaughtered,” Holland said. “I wanted to be that guy that, before the bulldozers pull up, before the wrecking ball starts to swing, can get ahead of that and identify a property or a number of properties that we can protect before they become lost of further endangered.” The Paramount Film Exchange building received the mayor’s signature and officially became a historical landmark in 2010, restricting any future demolition to the exterior of the building without approval. It wasn’t until entrepreneur Dale McNutt, an Uptown resident, partnered with site owner Alexander Denmarsh that the building’s interior begin to see major change. “My vision was that we had to create a more
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entrepreneurial culture,” McNutt said. “It’s not just about STEM — it’s about STEM, but it’s also about the arts. It’s about making and it’s also about a strength in psychology of being on the planet.” McNutt’s business, StartUptown — now known as Avenu — partnered with Denmarsh Studios to both redevelop the building as a coworking space and to preserve the history within the building’s walls. To preserve the building’s history, the designers implemented multiple movie posters presented with museum-style text bars about the entrepreneurs of the time while also keeping the original wooden floors, skylight and the fireproof vaults. And a rotating collection of movie posters reflecting current and old Paramount Picture films hang on almost every wall in the building. But there is one poster in particular that was left from the building’s thriving years — acting as sort of a spirit from the past. “That’s the only piece of art that was left in the building — that Paramount News poster was the only indication that they had been here. Everything else had been stripped away or was gone by the time we got here,” McNutt said. To remember the movies that were shared at this venue, visitors are greeted with a 24-hour black-and-white Paramount films screening on a TV screen as they walk in the front door. “Nobody had ever seen it before and all of a sudden our eyes were open and it was really kind of a nice end point to our efforts,” Holland said. “We went from a building that was too dangerous to do anything with to a building that is 100 percent occupied and reused as an asset for the community.”
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Northview, pg. 1 Leslie Aizenman, director of refugee and immigrant services at Jewish and Community Services of Pittsburgh, said settling refugees in public housing immediately upon arrival isn’t common. Because they don’t arrive with any credit history or source of income, new arrivals go into private housing. “Housing is a very big challenge,” Aizenman said. “There’s only so many landlords.” Maintaining rent in a private housing situation quickly become unattainable once resettlement-agency assistance leaves, which is why so many wind up moving to Northview Heights — a neighborhood that can easily accommodate large families and families with disabilities. At Northview, residents pay one-third of their household income in rent. The neighborhood does boast some benefits to compensate for its isolation, such as having its own grocery store, gymnasium and health center. The North Side Christian Health Center has served underserved and uninsured people on the North Side since 2008. Cindy Loughman, executive director the health center, said it has had to adjust its services since large numbers of refugees and immigrants have moved to the neighborhood. The center has invested in telephonic translation services — a nationwide calling service that connects caregivers with translators during medical appointments. It’s not uncommon to walk along the neighborhood sidewalks and encounter residents in their traditional dress. One Northview Heights resident, Bint Amiri, stands against dreary, gray skies as she walks along the outside of the community center, draped in an intricately designed pink and blue dress covering her head to toe. For Amiri, Northview Heights is the latest destination in a series of moves. She travelled from her native Somalia to a resettlement in Pittsburgh, then to Louisville, Kentucky, and north to Erie before coming back to stay in Pittsburgh. “We came back because I have family here,” she said. Abdulkadir Chirambo, another Northview resident and leader of the United Somali Bantu of Greater Pittsburgh, is standing nearby and translated for Amiri. Though she’s lived in America for 20 years, Amiri does not speak English. Amiri speaks Somali, one of several dialects native to the Somali Bantu. The language barrier she experiences is an obstacle many other immigrants and Northview Heights residents
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experience, too. But the boundary lines for these communities often fall around those who share a language. The Somalis with the Somalis, the Congolese with the Congolese, the Americans with the Americans. “It’s the main thing [we] have to deal with,” Rohrer, from the housing authority, said of the barrier. And though Rohrer says they’ve done a good job addressing the language barrier by providing a staff translator to assist non-English-speaking residents, not all residents describe the environment in a positive light. Siraji Hassan, 22, another Northview Heights resident and Somali Bantu immigrant, paints a different, darker picture of a neighborhood divided — and the sometimes violent repercussions. “It’s great,” he said of the many cultures living in Northview Heights, “but it does present some hardships because it’s difficult for people to get to know us. Whenever [other residents] see you outside, an outsider, they’ll start calling you names. That’s why we’re not open to anybody else, just us. We keep our circle tight.” But name-calling isn’t the only result of cultural differences in the neighborhood. Hassan walked over to the location of a recent incident between two residents on Chicago Street that turned violent when one shot the other. “It was the result of a cultural misunderstanding,” Hassan said. In an effort to promote safety, the community is monitored by security — but according to Lauw, security is not as present as it could be. She said there are many entrance points to the neighborhood that aren’t monitored by security, meaning people can just walk in. She also said patrol guards often appear afraid of the neighborhood they patrol. This is why, when the City of Pittsburgh announced it may soon replace private security with City police officers to regularly patrol both Northview Heights, Lauw was ecstatic. It could very well be a matter of life and death for Northview Residents — literally. “People think [Northview Heights] is like a blemish to the City,” Lauw said. “[They think] we’re living up on a hill, shooting each other saying, ‘Woe is me.’ But that’s not it.” Northview Heights is a neighborhood in motion. Its residents have seen brighter days and some darker ones too. But for Lauw, it’s all about making this neighborhood better every day for the ones growing up in it. “Here in Northview, we as a community are doing everything humanly possible for our babies, my Lord,” she said. “I live here to make it the best it can be.”
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