The Stade de France, where they play Sunday. Photo: Darthvadrouw, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Steelers (4–2) play the Saints Sunday at the Stade de France, just outside Paris. It’s the first NFL regular-season game ever played in France. Kickoff is 2:30 in the afternoon there, which is 9:30 a.m. here. It’s on NFL Network, and in Pittsburgh it’s also on WTAE, so you don’t need cable.

Why 9:30 and not 8:30: France sets its clocks back that same morning. We don’t until next Sunday. One week a year the gap is five hours instead of six. This is that week.

Where to watch: Primanti Bros. is opening most of its locations at 9 a.m. with a morning happy hour: half off nearly every drink behind the bar, and 100-ounce beer towers for $17.99. The full menu is on, so yes, a sandwich with fries on it at 9:30 in the morning is an option.

The Paris part got complicated. The team canceled its fan party at a bar in the Bastille neighborhood this week after street protests in the city. The NFL says the game is on as planned.

How they got here: down 16–3 in Tampa on Sunday, Aaron Rodgers threw two late touchdowns and rookie Germie Bernard caught the winner in overtime, 26–19. First road win of the year. Set an alarm.

Pittsburgh City Council takes its final vote Tuesday on a housing bill it has fought over since 2024. Wednesday’s vote was the second-to-last one, and it passed. If Tuesday’s does too:

• Turning a garage or a backyard building into a small apartment, an “accessory dwelling unit,” gets easier citywide.
• New buildings no longer need a minimum number of parking spaces.
• Developers can build taller or denser if they include cheaper units. That part is optional, and those units have to stay affordable for 35 years.

The backyard-unit and parking changes could take effect the week after. Councilor Deb Gross, on Wednesday: “I didn’t expect to be voting yes today, but I will be voting yes.”

Why it matters: if you’ve ever looked at the space over your garage and thought “rent,” this is the vote.

Allegheny County Council voted 11–4 Tuesday to require paid leave after a birth, adoption or stillbirth: 12 weeks at full pay, up to $4,200 a week. Businesses with fewer than 15 employees are exempt. Workers qualify after six months on the job, part-timers after 625 hours.

County Executive Sara Innamorato calls it the first county-level paid parental leave law in the country. Employers get up to a year to comply after she signs it.

The pushback: employers have to pay for it themselves, by self-insuring or buying leave insurance. Councilor Suzanne Filiaggi said that squeezes the smallest businesses covered, the ones with 15 to 40 workers. Someone at the hearing predicted a lawsuit, which is what happened to the city’s paid sick leave law.

A rockslide on the Great Allegheny Passage over the weekend killed a cyclist in Fayette County. That section of the trail is closed, and the state says there is no timeline to reopen it. It stays shut until crews dig it out and stabilize the cliff.

If you were planning a fall ride: the GAP is running a $20 shuttle around the closure. Check Ohiopyle State Park’s page before you load the bikes.

Mail ballot? Apply by Tuesday, Oct. 27, 5 p.m. Election Day is Nov. 3.

Wabash Tunnel: the PRT board votes Friday on closing it for good Dec. 1.

AGH nurses: the informational picket is next Thursday, Oct. 29. Their contract runs out the day after.

A Pittsburgh pill bottle made TIME’s Best Inventions: Parcel Health’s Tully Tube, which uses about 71% less plastic than the orange ones. AHN and UPMC already hand them out.

The contemporary art nonprofit reopens in its renovated space at 6901 Lynn Way Friday night with a reopening party, 7 to 10. First up on the walls: “The American Beauty,” photographs by Cecil McDonald Jr. Tickets benefit its free programs and artist fellowships.

 

The Jenkins Arcade in 1929. From Buildings and Building Management, public domain.

If you shopped Downtown before 1984, you might remember it. I don’t. In 1984 I wasn’t alive, a thought, or a problem yet. That took another seven years. The Jenkins Arcade filled the block of Stanwix Street between Penn and Liberty, right across from Horne’s. Three floors of shops and restaurants wrapped around a long indoor hall, with offices stacked on top. It opened in 1911, long before the suburbs had malls.

The Jenkins family got to that corner first, with groceries. Thomas Jenkins ran a flour and grocery business there that billed itself as the largest in the world, and the arcade grew out of the family’s 1864 Jenkins Building.

Near the end it had about 215 tenants, mostly local, and 17,000 people a day walking through. It took nearly 20 feet of water in the 1936 flood and kept going. It did not survive Renaissance II. Tenants got eviction notices in 1982, demolition started in November 1983, and Fifth Avenue Place went up where it stood. A doctor who fought to save it said it best: “They’re murdering a live building.”

The company that owns Fifth Avenue Place today is still called Jenkins Empire Associates.

According to the listing, this house was built in 1900 for Edward E. Jenkins, one of the men behind the arcade. So the house came first, a decade before the arcade opened. The architect was Charles Bickel, who also designed the Kaufmann’s flagship Downtown.

Inside: five stained-glass windows, each 12 feet tall, curving around the stair landing, with buckled Order of the Garter crests in the top panes. Coffered oak ceilings. Pocket doors. Hand-carved white oak that nobody ever painted.

Left: an open-air sleeping porch in Farmingdale, N.J., 1917 (The Modern Hospital, public domain). Right: this one.

 

About that sleeping porch. Before antibiotics, there was no drug for tuberculosis. The treatment was fresh air and rest, so sanatoriums lined their patients’ beds up on open porches like the one on the left. Then healthy people wanted in too. By 1909 a magazine said outdoor sleeping was too common to call a fad.

So houses got a room that was nothing but windows: screens in summer, storm windows in winter, an iron cot, and you slept out there all year. Stores sold sleeping hoods and camel-hair sleeping bags for January. Once real TB drugs came along, most families closed theirs in and turned them into bedrooms.

This one is up on the third floor, and it still has its original oversized windows, hung on chains and ceiling hooks so you can haul them open. It has power, water and gas now. The hammocks are new. Go see the whole house.

Listed by Michael Hoban, Coldwell Banker Realty.

 

Steelers (4–2): Saints, Sunday, 9:30 a.m., in Paris. Story up top.

Pitt (5–2): lost 27–21 at Boston College, two straight after a 5–0 start. It doesn’t get easier: Saturday at noon they’re at No. 1 Miami.

 

Past 7 days, residential. “Was” is last week’s issue.

What we’re seeing

Sales fell for the second week in a row: 641, then 587, now 505. And once again more sellers cut their price (907) than listed a new home (719).

Why you’d care

 

A brown pelican. Not Joey or Felicity, but similar energy. Photo: Maximilian Paradiz, CC BY 2.0.

Saturday morning, two brown pelicans named Joey and Felicity got out of their habitat at the Pittsburgh Zoo. The zoo sits right above the Allegheny. You can guess the rest.

Crews searched the river between the Highland Park Bridge and the 62nd Street Bridge. River Rescue, Three Rivers Waterkeeper, the Army Corps of Engineers and the National Aviary all helped, and people called in more than a dozen tips. Joey was pulled out of the river near Sharpsburg at 4 p.m. Felicity was caught 46 minutes later.

Here’s the part that gets me. They came to the zoo last year because fishing-tackle injuries to their wings meant they couldn’t be released into the wild. So I’m guessing this wasn’t a flight. It was a float. Both are healthy and getting checkups before they go back in with the penguins.

 

 

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