The week in photos: Jan 3, 2025

View Pittsburgh through the eyes of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette photojournalists this week.

U.S. Steel workers walk back to their vehicles at the end of a shift at to U.S. Steel Clairton Mill Works in Clairton Friday, Jan. 3, 2024.
Bakery Square held its third annual New Year’s Eve party for families in the Conservatory beside City Kitchen on Dec. 31, 2024. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)
A man in a Santa hat dives into the frigid Monongahela River during the annual Polar Plunge on the Mon Wharf Downtown on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025.
A U.S. Steel worker walks back to his vehicle at the end of a shift at to U.S. Steel Clairton Mill Works in Clairton Friday, Jan. 3, 2024.
Fireworks shoot from the roof of the AHN building on Stanwix Street and Penn Avenue for the children’s fireworks show, kicking off First Night Pittsburgh New Year’s Eve celebrations Downtown on Dec. 31, 2024.
Stephen Hofstetter, sitting, pays respect to his brother-in-law Robbin Fisher who died in 2022 while living on the street during the Annual candlelight vigil to remember 16 homeless who are known to have died while living on the streets in 2024 on Fort Pitt Blvd. and Grant St. on Pittsburgh on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024.
Eight-year-old Braxton Royer of Virginia is chased by his cousin, Cameron Royer, 6, of McCandless, on the field behind Quaker Valley Junior High School in Sewickley on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. The Royers were visiting for the holiday.
Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jaylen Warren (30) gets a touchdown but is called back after a holding on the Pittsburgh Steelers while playing the Kansas City Chiefs at Acrisure Stadium on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024, in the North Shore.
Johnny “ Macharia” McCoy speaks in the libation circle as Umoja (Unity) Kwanzaa event hosted by Wisdom Seekers and the Legacy Arts Project at the Legacy Arts Project center in Homewood on Thursday Dec. 26, 2024.
People walk on the Three Rivers Heritage Trail on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024, in the North Shore.