Several days after a spate of shootings in Pittsburgh’s eastern suburbs left two teens dead and one injured, CeCe Russell stood on a Wilkinsburg street corner and recalled her first brush with gun violence. The Homewood woman was still a little girl when her friend was killed in their neighborhood.
Sunlight pours into the shattered roof of a four-unit Hill Avenue rowhouse — bricks and shingles fall onto neighboring properties. An abandoned Glenn Avenue home sits with its glass windows broken out. Weeds snake up toward its second floor. A 2,900-square-foot shell of a home on North Avenue has its
Wilkinsburg is recognized as a food desert, which means an area with limited access to fresh foods and vegetables. Wilkinsburg police and community leaders are taking steps to change that.