{"id":249419,"date":"2026-07-22T15:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249419\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:14:07","slug":"pittsburgh-lounge-ordered-closed-by-health-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249419\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh lounge ordered closed by Health Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A social club in Pittsburgh has been ordered closed by the Allegheny County Health Department.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors say that Empire Lounge on Eckert Street in Brighton Heights was operating without a valid permit.<\/p>\n<p>In its Instagram stories, business said, \u201cEmpire Lounge Be Back Soon . . . Stay Tuned In.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Formally known as SAPPs and before that from the early 1990s through 2012 was the Pittsburgh Eagle, a gay club, the building is right near the bridge that moves Ohio River Boulevard over Woods Run on the North Side.<\/p>\n<p>The lounge offers food along with DJs, dancing and more. <\/p>\n<p>See any changes to the club&#8217;s status <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleghenycounty.us\/Services\/Health-Department\/Food-Safety\/Alerts-Closures-and-Enforcements\/Consumer-Alerts-and-Closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A social club in Pittsburgh has been ordered closed by the Allegheny County Health Department. Inspectors say that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3400,106683,5567,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-249419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county-health-department","tag-empire-lounge","tag-north-side","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}