Pittsburgh Gets a Second Chance

Anyone who is actually from here has heard countless stories about Pittsburgh’s past and how this was once a flourishing town of industry. But most of us only know it as a city with old rust infested mills and abandoned steel communities surviving through years of struggle. A lot of Pittsburghers from those neighborhoods could use some help. Especially in Braddock, PA.

Brandon Grbach and his Dead Bury Dead clothing and accessory company are doing just that. In a joint effort with Steel City Cotton Works (creators of the Pittsburgh Zombies shirt), they built a site called Second Chance Pittsburgh. Through this project, they’re helping others who are going through tough times – with basic essentials like warm clothes on their backs and food in their stomachs.

You can pitch in to help give folks in Braddock a second chance by ordering a limited edition It’s Heatin’ Up in Braddock Pennsylvania t-shirt from Steel City Cotton Works. This awesome tee is pictured below. All proceeds will go toward improving the clothing room facilities so that they can better serve the community.

Justin

I have to get myself one of those shirts.
John

This is what people should be doing, not engaging in bullshit political banter that means nothing. Thanks for sharing this, I can tell the people involved are sincere about their efforts and not just trying to get some publicity. Great stuff!
Best412

I always like the shirts Steel City Cotton puts out.
Petey

Fucking love it!
Jon

I like those shirts. I am just wondering how many of the 90% black residents and the 50% unemployed are being used to create all of these new endeavors that are so called “heating” up Braddock? I taught kids there. What I see is a bunch of well meaning but ignorant white hipsters gentrifying another neighborhood thinking they are creating a renaissance. Charity is not a solution for people going through a “tough” time. Everything they are and have gone through is symptomatic of structural issues. Go to Wilkinsburg, Garfield, the Hill, McKeeseport, etc and you will see the same thing. They don’t need this type of help what they need is for you and everyone else to understand the social and structural issues that have helped create these problems. Poverty is not going to be solved and has not been solved with gentrification.
keithflaherty

Either way i like the shirt!