Author Andrew W

If you’ve ever tried to get from Columbia Heights to the newly happening areas of Brookland or NoMa you may have found it’s a pain — aside from a cab or Bikeshare, there’s no great direct route — the H buses mostly run for commuting hours. The city is working to fix that, undertaking a…

Great news! Alex McCoy, who was a finalist on Food Network Star, will open Alfie’s today in the old Mothership space at 3301 Georgia Avenue NW. McCoy was previously chef at Duke’s Grocery. The place is technically a pop-up for roughly nine months, but McCoy tells Washingtonian that he may stay in Park View if it’s…

Some more news about the restaurant and bar coming to the space where the Getaway used to be at 14th and Meridian: it’s going to be a Jamaican place. A reader stopped by the other day and chatted with workers, who had just painted a Jamaican flag on the wall. Sounds good to me: we…

Developers are planning more condos for the 14th and Spring area: this time, at 3701 14th Street NW, which right now is a house and a barber shop. The plan is for a 4-story building with retail on the ground floor. There’s a meeting on Feb. 2 at 7 pm to talk more about it…

Good news for bus riders: Metro says they’re back on their regular schedule on all routes — no crazy detours or changes or cancellations. However, they did warn that there are still some delays due to road conditions but nothing in particular about any routes in our area. So that’s good. The bus stops, however,…

If you’ve got kids, here’s a good indoor option. The other day I was walking around DCUSA and saw a sign for “Magic Ground: now open.” Located on the top level, it’s an indoor playground, game room, art space, and more for kids. There are ball pits, climbing areas, slides, trampolines, toy cars and trucks,…

Well, to their credit, the city plowed many of the small residential streets between 13th and 14th from Spring to Park. Myself and others tweeted up a storm about it to the mayor, DC 311 and others, and the mayor responded and said she was on it, but I’m not sure if that helped or…

Today I was walking around north of DCUSA and noticed that almost none of the streets had been plowed between 14th and 16th Streets: we already heard about Newton, but the same thing is afoot on Parkwood, Otis, Oak and Meridian, as well as the 1300 block of Otis. I’ve been reporting them to the…

While some of the streets in our area are plowed, some are not. A reader just sent these pictures of Newton Street NW between 14th and 16th, which appears to have been virtually untouched. Cars have dug their own tracks and that’s about it and lots are getting stuck. Here’s more of what the reader…