I would like to invite the new president of Point Park University to walk with me on Third Avenue as I go to and from work (“Point Park’s next president, Chris Brussalis, is ready to boost enrollment and drive Downtown growth,” July 26).
There are unhoused people living in the doorways of every empty building. There is a strong smell of human waste. There are aggressive panhandlers who follow the business people begging for money or screaming obscenities. There is a halfway house and a drug rehabilitation center. There is student housing along Third Avenue and the Pont Park University bookstore is at the corner of Third Avenue and Wood Street.
If I were a parent taking my child for a tour, there would be no way I would agree to let my child attend Point Park University after I saw Third Avenue.
CHERYL ESPOSITO KAUFMAN
Forest Hills
First Published: July 30, 2023, 3:10 p.m.