{"id":257217,"date":"2026-08-01T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257217\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:21:08","slug":"nonprofit-says-city-refused-permit-for-annual-event-mayors-office-says-its-working-on-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257217\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit says city refused permit for annual event; mayor\u2019s office says it\u2019s working on a solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh nonprofit says what\u2019s meant to be a night of \u201cbuilding community\u201d is now at the center of a battle with City Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">We the People of 412 is set to host its annual National Night Out in Homewood next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Organizers claim Mayor Corey O\u2019Connor and his staff refused a permit to shut down a portion of Frankstown Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The mayor\u2019s office tells us organizers submitted the permit late, and they worked to figure out a solution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cMayor Corey O\u2019Connor has been in office a little over eight months, and for his and his staff to say what they are saying and for them to be doing what they\u2019re doing. It shows that there has never been an intent to wanna help this community,\u201d Founder and CEO of We the People of 412 Sam Gibson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The mayor\u2019s office says the permit was considered on Tuesday but determined it was too late to reroute bus lines on that street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The city proposed closing down an alternative street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh nonprofit says what\u2019s meant to be a night of \u201cbuilding community\u201d is now at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[79,10882,40377,109358,32121,2163,84,139,859,73,75,74,7365,420,860],"class_list":["post-257217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-city","tag-corey_oconnor","tag-cory_oconnor","tag-frankstown_avenue","tag-hall","tag-homewood","tag-mayor","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-street","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257217","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=257217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}