Garfield the next "it" hood?

[safak]

Originally Posted by gladhands

It's already there.

qft

welcome to 5 years ago?

[xdv8]

Which Garfield galleries should I check out if I'm looking for oil paintings or other hanging artwork?

[Uptown kid]

I hate it, but Garfield isn't like it was when I was born or even a teenager. Its WAY BETTER. Late 60's-70's decline. 70-80's decline. 80-90's major decline. 90's-2000 rock bottom. 2000's was decade for the turn around. Early-mid 2000's "UpTop" 5100-5200 Garfield Heights was first to be raised & redeveloped into Garfield Commons Mixed Income Apts. Soon after this, Penn-Dearborn streets were starting to be revitalized. Hence adjacent Bloomfield/Friendship north of Coral became way better too. Then late 2000's, "5300" or "Five-Tre" or the "The Boat" was next to turn into the Commons. Garfield-Glen followed by redeveloping blocks west of Pacific Ave from Broad to Kincaid. Now days all but a few blocks have greatly improved.

Clarendon Place was notorious in the 90's, so were Garfield Heights, Broad & Kincaid into the 2000's for black on black crime... Now there's diversity & an increasing number of white young professionals. East Liberty & Garfield who woulda' guessed.
Check out this visual representation of Garfield in the 2016 Allegheny County Crime Map. Garfield and East Liberty were very much in the mix, but currently there's a decreasing amount of Garfield and only a little left of East Liberty. Now the mix primarily runs from East Liberty Gardens/Larimer through most of Lincoln-Lemington, all of Homewood, parts of East Hills & most of Wilkinsburg. SW Penn Hills is spillover. Larimer is getting better however.

[gladhands]

Originally Posted by xdv8

Which Garfield galleries should I check out if I'm looking for oil paintings or other hanging artwork?

Just do the gallery crawl on the first Friday of the month. See them all.

[selltheburgh]

Originally Posted by Uptown kid

Clarendon Place was notorious in the 90's so were Garfield Heights, Broad & Kincaid for black on black crime, Now there's diversity & an increasing number of whote young professionals. East Liberty & Garfield who woulda guessed.

Tell me more about Clarendon Place in the 90s- which is in Friendship - in the 90s. I only know a bit of the story - that neighbors in Friendship worked towards purchasing the properties from the landlord because they were an ongoing nuisance. They had them renovated and sold them to owner occupants, except one unit that the Pgh Glass center purchased to house visiting artists. This was about 15 years now and the units sell for 210-300k.

Loysen + Kreuthmeier Architects

From a Trib article:
Clarendon Place, Friendship. Kevin Kunak, an architect with the Rothschild Doyno Collaborative cites this short block as another intimate residential place that's almost poetic in feel. These also are single-family row houses, but “a grand public-realm gesture” is created, he says, through broad front steps that run the full front width of each unit. This creates “a ‘stage set' that frames ‘the ballet of the sidewalk,' ” he adds. Clarendon runs between Roup and South Fairmont near Penn.

[wpipkins2]

Originally Posted by selltheburgh

Tell me more about Clarendon Place in the 90s- which is in Friendship - in the 90s. I only know a bit of the story - that neighbors in Friendship worked towards purchasing the properties from the landlord because they were an ongoing nuisance. They had them renovated and sold them to owner occupants, except one unit that the Pgh Glass center purchased to house visiting artists. This was about 15 years now and the units sell for 210-300k.

Loysen + Kreuthmeier Architects

From a Trib article:
Clarendon Place, Friendship. Kevin Kunak, an architect with the Rothschild Doyno Collaborative cites this short block as another intimate residential place that's almost poetic in feel. These also are single-family row houses, but “a grand public-realm gesture” is created, he says, through broad front steps that run the full front width of each unit. This creates “a ‘stage set' that frames ‘the ballet of the sidewalk,' ” he adds. Clarendon runs between Roup and South Fairmont near Penn.

The only thing I know is that when the Horoscope Lounge (Hoe Scope) was across Penn drugs and prostitution was out of control in that area. The alley was used by prostitutes, Johns, and addicts. Most of the activity was tied to that Lounge.

My brother and sister in law lived in the lofts above the Dance Alloy during that time. My sister in law was pregnant and had to park in the alley one night and her purse was snatched from her arm. An older white man that lived on the cross street behind the Dance Alloy found her purse on his front porch. The restoration of that alley coupled with the restoration of the homes across from Penn Aiken Dairy changed that section of Penn Ave overnight.

[wpipkins2]

When the First Friday events began in the 90s it was so crazy. You had drug dealers, addicts, and prostitutes mixed in with artsy fartsy folk. If you could see the look of bewilderment on the dealer and addicts faces. It was like the twilight zone for them. That section of Penn was so dark and lonely at night.

[Uptown kid]

Originally Posted by selltheburgh

Tell me more about Clarendon Place in the 90s- which is in Friendship - in the 90s. I only know a bit of the story - that neighbors in Friendship worked towards purchasing the properties from the landlord because they were an ongoing nuisance. They had them renovated and sold them to owner occupants, except one unit that the Pgh Glass center purchased to house visiting artists. This was about 15 years now and the units sell for 210-300k.

Loysen + Kreuthmeier Architects

From a Trib article:
Clarendon Place, Friendship. Kevin Kunak, an architect with the Rothschild Doyno Collaborative cites this short block as another intimate residential place that's almost poetic in feel. These also are single-family row houses, but “a grand public-realm gesture” is created, he says, through broad front steps that run the full front width of each unit. This creates “a ‘stage set' that frames ‘the ballet of the sidewalk,' ” he adds. Clarendon runs between Roup and South Fairmont near Penn.

They only make up a small portion of the area and never truly had a divsion from the rest/mirco-neighborhood, but the area of Friendship north of Coral and Bloomfield past Friendship Ave to this day has several Black and European immigrant families who heavy multi-generational tithes to Garfield/Lower Hill District. In the late 80's-mid 90's was when Clarendon Place was at it's worst. There was a "justified" police shooting in '94. And the streets were known turf for the Garfield Bloods & even female Bloodetts. As stated in the article the Garfield Bloods claimed turf from the Fern St/Mossfield St projects down... The "Valley" was Broad Street south to Penn Ave. The streets from Penn Ave to Coral/Friendship Ave were known as the "Alley Wayz" (known for more drugs, vandalism, thefts, and prostitution than shootings or murders). Clarendon Place was a gang nest & drug hot spot for the Alley Mob set of Garfield Bloods until the late 90's.

By the early-mid 2000's things got better. By 2005-07ish things completely turned around like Lawrenceville, the War Streets/parts of Central Northside/West Deutschtown, parts of Manchester or most of East Liberty.

Edit: R.I.P to the young fella... That 94 police shooting would probably be considered unjustified now smh *not to get off topic

[xdv8]

Originally Posted by gladhands

Just do the gallery crawl on the first Friday of the month. See them all.

I am aware of and have been to First Fridays, but it has been years and back then I wasn't a buyer. They were a lot of fun.

Assuming I will be out of town for the next few and want to visit specific galleries in the meantime?