Italian American Joe Negri, known to many within Pittsburgh as Handyman Negri on "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood," has died at the age of 99, just days shy of his 100th birthday, Fred Rogers Productions confirmed to KDKA-TV on Sunday evening.
Negri was a broadcasting pioneer, an accomplished musician, a Pittsburgh icon, and someone many children grew up watching on TV. For more than 30 years, when children across America tuned in to "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood," they often saw Handyman Negri tinkering on things in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
