Letters to the Editor
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Belated opposition
As chairs of two committees of the Central Northside Neighborhood Council
that have been working for more than a decade (a decade, folks, not just a
month or two), to bring back housing and viable commercial development to the
derelict and depressed Federal Street and North Avenue corridors, we were
extremely disheartened to see that there is opposition to the move of the
Allegheny branch of the Carnegie Library to Federal Street.
It's even more upsetting that this opposition never surfaced during the many
public meetings between the library and the community over the last year to
make sure that the design of the new building incorporated neighborhood
interests and responded to neighborhood concerns.
Glenn Walsh of Mt. Lebanon (Mt. Lebanon?!), one of the main
opposition petitioners, was also the individual who spearheaded opposition to
the re-use of the old, abandoned Buhl Planetarium building by the Children's
Museum several years ago, an award-winning make-over that has enlivened and transformed
the entire area around the museum. (Northsiders would be interested to know
that only residents of
We wonder how many of the opposition petitioners have a library card, and
when was the last time they visited the Allegheny branch
DAVID DEMKO
North Side
Chair, Federal North Committee
JOAN KIMMEL
North Side
Chair, Federal Hill Committee
* Demko, David and Kimmel, Joan.
"Belated opposition," Letters-to-the-Editor
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2008 Jan. 1
(Fifth letter of seven on Pittsburgh Post-Gazette archive web page)
Glenn A. Walsh Reply (to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by electronic mail)
to Personal Attack in "Belated opposition" Letter-to-the-Editor,
Regarding BOTH Carnegie Library and Buhl Planetarium.