Never been a better time to be a wallet inspector.

else:
    comment("LUXURY HOUSING");

I didn't know Pittsburgh was so civilized. Yes, your bike will be stolen sooner rather than later if you leave it locked up outside.

What's the best in Hilltop?

There Will Be Honks

There's garages in Manhattan you can park in.

The way it works around here is if you can get into a space before someone else you win, that's your space now and everyone else has to deal with it. Doesn't matter if it's in an oncoming traffic lane or whatever. The only thing holding you back is your own risk tolerance.

Same thing even if you're not in a car. If you're a pedestrian you have to get into the space of a crosswalk before the car does to win, they won't wait for you.

It's ok. Just stay on the sidewalk, don't cross onto their property or linger too long.

Before the pandemic and renovation there was some life with Piggyback bar, and there were active shops in that corridor, but they haven't really brought anything back yet. The other bar that had opened seems to be closed still too.

hopefully it will be less of a ghost town

DIY, I believe in you. You can patch wall damage in the end.

This is a problem in every suburb. Only thing you can do is move to a city.

Yes to that intersection, of course. Not so clear the rest of downtown is now overrun compared to before.

There's a traffic light just for the cross-walk near the Harborside light rail stop that has exactly this effect, and it's annoying as hell. The light is by default green all the time unless a pedestrian hits the button, and cars take it as an excuse to blow through regardless of pedestrians.

What happened to everyone wetting their diaper about the devil's artery causing extra traffic.

A lot comes down to luck either way. I think the main advantage is that if you have a benevolent lord of the land and you don't rock the boat, your rent won't get jacked up a crazy amount like a corporate building would do. If you like your apartment it'll be easier to stay in it longer.

No Parking to the left implies parking to the right is ok, but it doesn't explicitly say so, you still have to account for other factors. The second sign explicitly says there's no parking in that spot. There's no explicit contradiction, but of course it's suboptimal signage.

My guess is that it used to be a valid spot, as you pointed out with the paint, but they decided to push it back for safety/daylight reasons, and didn't bother pulling down the original sign closer to the intersection. You can go back in time to Nov 2020 on Google Street view to see this: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7432436,-74.051019,3a,75y,357.35h,70.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syDtDrOL-FG-XV7jRnhITaw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

The signs aren't contradictory. I'd say No Parking still holds. Also the closer spot is probably within 25 feet of the crosswalk. YMMV.