Pittsburgh’s newest business?

Cookie table bridges.

Yes, the standard Pittsburgh cookie table is getting an upgrade thanks to this crafty mother-daughter duo who create hand-crafted “bridges” to display cookies, Pittsburgh Magazine reports.

It all started at Harley Perri’s own wedding cookie table, in which she and her mother Lisa Perri-Lang created wooden bridges and a view of the skyline giving a new spin to the age-old Pittsburgh cookie table tradition. Photos of the creation went viral, and their business was born.

Want your own? Better reach out soon — they’ve already got orders into 2020.

Speaking of bridges, the Fort Pitt Bridge is celebrating its 60th birthday this week, per TribLive. Pittsburgh has a love-hate relationship with this bridge. The skyline view? Love. The traffic and tricky merge lanes? Hate.

But we like to think the good outweighs the bad.

As Willie Stargell once said, “Last night, coming in from the airport, we came through the tunnel and the city opened up its arms and I felt at home.”

In other news…

Is Pittsburgh the new poster child for the corporatization of Pride Month? Or for how to eschew corporate support? Or both? Well, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” came to town for Pittsburgh’s Pride marches to highlight the debate about the corporate presence at Pride. They talked to Pride participants, the Delta Foundation, and SisTers PGH — and brandished a very NSFW prop around town. By the way, Pride month continues in Pittsburgh — here’s how to get involved. (Comedy Central)

Local state Reps. Summer Lee and Ed Gainey want to limit when officers can use deadly force. They introduced a bill about use of force yesterday on Juneteenth (also the one-year anniversary of unarmed teen Antwon Rose’s fatal shooting by a police officer). The legislation would “allow police to use deadly force ONLY in those situations where they or another face imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury.” (Pittsburgh Current)

A $6.5 million renovation of the Wilkinsburg train station should be complete by October, bolstered by a successful fundraising effort that drew support from the state, Allegheny County, the borough, and charitable foundations. Built in 1916, the station on Hay Street closed in the ’70s and became a symbol of Wilkinsburg’s decline. With its restoration, locals hope it will begin to symbolize the borough’s resurgence. (TribLive)

Students may have moved out for the semester, but bees are moving in at the University of Pittsburgh.

Pitt students installed seven bee houses on campus this month to protect pollinators. Their work will provide safe places for solitary bees to lay their eggs. While you may have never heard of solitary bees, they’re pollination superstars capable of pollinating up to 120 times more than honey bees.

The bee houses will make sure they can continue to do their important pollination work.

And as one of the students says, “the rents are really reasonable.”

🍎 June 26: Celebrate The Incline’s Who’s Next: Education class, 19 up-and-comers preparing Pittsburgh for the future, at a happy hour in their honor (Downtown)

Calling all artists: VisitPittsburgh wants to paint 90 Pittsburgh parking chairs to represent the city’s 90 neighborhoods. It’s a part of VisitPittsburgh’s “Pull up a chair — you are welcomed here” campaign.

Whether or not you’re an artist, we hope you’ll carry that ethos with you today and pull up a chair to welcome someone.

Make it a great Thursday, Pittsburgh.