22 Aug 2019
Mayor William Peduto held a 'Key to the City' ceremony honoring retired Steelworkers President Leo Gerard.
- 4 participants
- 17 minutes
3 Jan 2019
On Thursday, January 3rd, Mayor William Peduto issued the Key to the City to former Mayor Tom Murphy and announced plans to rename the North Side riverfront trail in his honor.
Murphy is the second-longest serving Mayor in city history after only David L. Lawrence and was inaugurated to the first of his three terms 25 years ago to the day of this ceremony.
As Mayor he led the drive to construct 25 miles of trails along Pittsburgh’s riverfronts, much of them through former industrial areas. In honor of that effort, Mayor Peduto is sending legislation to Pittsburgh City Council renaming the North Side portion of the Three Rivers Heritage Trail after Murphy. “The City of Pittsburgh owes a lot to Tom Murphy, a visionary who led us through turbulent times and planted the seeds for the regrowth we’re seeing now. It is my honor to issue him the Key to the City and make a gesture of thanks for his many years of public service,” Mayor Peduto said.
Mayor Murphy is also a long-time runner on the city’s trails and one of the few Pittsburghers who has run in every Great Race since it was instituted by the late Mayor Richard Caliguiri in 1977. “We were willing to think about Pittsburgh in a different kind of way,” Mayor Murphy said at the ceremony. “The riverfronts were there for thousands of years but nobody thought much about doing anything with them. We made the decision that they could be a great asset.”
The son of a steelworker, Murphy was a North Side community activist as well as a state representative from 1979 through 1993. Since 2006 he has been a senior resident fellow at the Urban Land Institute, a role in which he regularly travels the world telling the story of Pittsburgh’s revitalization.
Murphy is the second-longest serving Mayor in city history after only David L. Lawrence and was inaugurated to the first of his three terms 25 years ago to the day of this ceremony.
As Mayor he led the drive to construct 25 miles of trails along Pittsburgh’s riverfronts, much of them through former industrial areas. In honor of that effort, Mayor Peduto is sending legislation to Pittsburgh City Council renaming the North Side portion of the Three Rivers Heritage Trail after Murphy. “The City of Pittsburgh owes a lot to Tom Murphy, a visionary who led us through turbulent times and planted the seeds for the regrowth we’re seeing now. It is my honor to issue him the Key to the City and make a gesture of thanks for his many years of public service,” Mayor Peduto said.
Mayor Murphy is also a long-time runner on the city’s trails and one of the few Pittsburghers who has run in every Great Race since it was instituted by the late Mayor Richard Caliguiri in 1977. “We were willing to think about Pittsburgh in a different kind of way,” Mayor Murphy said at the ceremony. “The riverfronts were there for thousands of years but nobody thought much about doing anything with them. We made the decision that they could be a great asset.”
The son of a steelworker, Murphy was a North Side community activist as well as a state representative from 1979 through 1993. Since 2006 he has been a senior resident fellow at the Urban Land Institute, a role in which he regularly travels the world telling the story of Pittsburgh’s revitalization.
- 6 participants
- 22 minutes
23 Oct 2018
Mayor William Peduto presented Alma Fox, a civil rights and iconic Pittsburgh leader, with a Key to the City.
A life-long civil rights and LGBT activist, she was one of the leading advocates in the successful drive to add sexual orientation to the list of those protected from discrimination in the Pittsburgh City Code. Fox served 32 years on the Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations were she served twice as Commission President.
In 1955 Fox became involved with the Pittsburgh branch of the NAACP. She later went on to serve as the executive director from 1966 to 1971 and was a member of its board of directors for over 50 years.
Fox’s dedication to create a better city continued when she joined the National Organization for Women (NOW) where she held several leadership positions including convener and President of the organization’s East Hills Branch; Vice President of the first Pittsburgh chapter and a member of NOW’s National Board of Directors.
A life-long civil rights and LGBT activist, she was one of the leading advocates in the successful drive to add sexual orientation to the list of those protected from discrimination in the Pittsburgh City Code. Fox served 32 years on the Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations were she served twice as Commission President.
In 1955 Fox became involved with the Pittsburgh branch of the NAACP. She later went on to serve as the executive director from 1966 to 1971 and was a member of its board of directors for over 50 years.
Fox’s dedication to create a better city continued when she joined the National Organization for Women (NOW) where she held several leadership positions including convener and President of the organization’s East Hills Branch; Vice President of the first Pittsburgh chapter and a member of NOW’s National Board of Directors.
- 3 participants
- 14 minutes
10 Aug 2018
Mayor William Peduto presented Bill Strickland, Founder and Executive Chairman of Manchester Bidwell Corporation (MBC), with the Key to the City.
"Bill Strickland is a model public servant who has transformed the lives of countless Pittsburgh residents, and inspired generations of us to be better versions of ourselves. Our city wouldn't be the same without him," Mayor Peduto said.
"Bill Strickland is a model public servant who has transformed the lives of countless Pittsburgh residents, and inspired generations of us to be better versions of ourselves. Our city wouldn't be the same without him," Mayor Peduto said.
- 2 participants
- 14 minutes
