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Dead Zones
Into The Wild: Santiago Street
Dispatch from the slums of suburbia.
When I parked my car at the end of Santiago Street, I half expected to find a cul-de-sac devoid of houses. Chris Blackwell, principal planner from the Penn Hills Department of Planning and Economic Development, told me how his department had demolished nearly all the street’s blighted properties in recent years.
Postcards From Oblivion
The Hi-Riser On The Hill
Each day I drive past this hi-riser on my daily commute through Western Pennsylvania’s Monongahela Valley. In three years, it’s never moved, yet somehow it retains a shine — like the owner still regularly washes and waxes it even though he stopped driving it long ago.
TAGS: baller hauler, box, bubble, Culture, donk, hi-riser, homestead, Rust Belt, the mon valley, western pennsylvania
