Article: Pastry shop sweetens future for once-elegant Pittsburgh street.

Byline: Diana Nelson Jones

Nov. 11--For almost five decades, the once-elegant East Ohio Street has bowed to the forces of low expectation. Despite many respectable businesses, momentum has been on the side of check-cashing services, daytime barflies, skulking hookers, drug dealers, panhandlers, loiterers, weedy, littered lots and vacant storefronts.

The North Side's main thoroughfare was starving for some good news when Ed and Mary Ann Graf supplied it late last month -- with sugar on top.

Priory Fine Pastries opened Oct. 22 at 528 E. Ohio St. in what had been a vacant Rent-a-Center. It is named for the Priory Inn, which the Grafs opened in a ...

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