Economy

The Side Pittsburgh Doesn't Want You to See

Pittsburgh filmmaker Chris Ivey has spent over twelve years documenting the lives of the people displaced so that the city can achieve its “cool” status.

A main drag on Baum Boulevard, where the now-shuttered Shadow Lounge and Conflict Kitchen were once central gathering points for the East Liberty neighborhood.Keith Srakocic/AP

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By Brentin Mock

October 19, 2017 at 8:00 AM EDT

In a CityLab interview with former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon, producer of the HBO series “The Deuce” and “The Wire,” Simon was asked which cities were “doing a pretty good job.” His response:

Pittsburgh is streaking. Earlier this month, the city was honored with having two of its neighborhoods listed among the top ten coolest in the U.S. by Lonely Planet and Time.com’s “Money” blog. This was just the latest of several top-of-the-class rankings, accolades, and superlatives bestowed upon Pittsburgh in terms of livability. They’ve all made for a nice collection of resume enhancers the city can exploit to make its case for landing Amazon’s much-coveted HQ2 site. The thirst is so real that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette shamelessly knocked several cities, including a few currently hobbled by disaster, to make its case for the Amazon prize:

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