Make left and walk up one block to Josephine St. and Oakley Way Steps & Mosaic Public Art Project
StepTrek Route: StepTrek Route 2020
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Mary St.
Cross and keep left. Continue along Mary to S. 27th St.
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Mary Jane St.
Keep left and walk Mary Jane past Harcum Way to Mary St.
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Jane St. Cont’d.
Keep left on Jane St. and continue walking past Jay Verno Studios (3030 Jane St.) to Steve Seventy St. South Side Works and Oakland are to your right. Cross Steve Seventy Way to Mary Jane St.
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* Kollar Club
In the Hollow, at 3226 Jane St., resides the John Kollar Slovak Literary & Library Society. Founded in 1913 and named for 19th Century Slovak poet, John Kollar, its original purpose was to teach English to Slovak immigrants and to orient them to life in America. The Pittsburgh Region is home to more Slovaks than any other area in the United States. The club continues in full operation preserving the Slovak language & culture, and serving as a social club and live-music venue.
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Jane St.
Make left. Keep left and walk along sidewalk across from the stone wall and railroad tracks.
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Mary St.
At the bottom of Steve Seventy St. steps, turn right on Mary St. Walk up Mary to where it ends at two sets of descending steps. Take the Mary St. steps on the right. They begin at 3200 Mary.
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* Steve Seventy
The street is named after a Penna. State legislature who represented the area from 1979 to 1988. Since 1950, South 30th Street had been closed at the request of railroads serving the area’s then-bustling steel mills. As a result, the only way into the largely Slovak community of the Hollow was along Mary St. Steve Seventy pushed to reopen the underpass to Sarah St., which came two years after his death in the 1990s and was renamed in his honor.
