Residents and businesses on Pittsburgh’s North Side are banding together to petition the city to shut down a center that provides services to people experiencing homelessness and needles to people struggling with addiction.
Those businesses said East Ohio Street has become the site of overdoses, thefts and assaults — creating an unsafe environment and keeping customers away.
Lauren Bradley and her husband renovated a building on the street and turned it into an upscale espresso bar and shop, but she says all that street activity is keeping customers away…