Author Andrew W

Update on the new condo building at 14th and Florida: I received an email from R2L:Architects with some updated designs, pictured here. The ANC1B’s November minutes have more on the building as well: it will be at the southeast corner where the used car lot is now. Mostly it’s market rate with 30 units, but…

Thanks to Metrocentric, I learned that there’s a new building with 30 condo units and street-level retail planned for 14th and Florida, from Douglas Development and R2L:Architects, although the project doesn’t appear on any of their sites. Not sure exactly where at the intersection this is going, but I hope it’s the southeast corner with…

In the past couple of weeks, readers and I have noticed a lot of things you don’t see everyday on Columbia Heights sidewalks: a headless rooster, bent metal caused by a runaway car, wild animals for Three Kings’ Day, Patron, paint-dripping graffiti, and more. But I think this is the weirdest yet. A reader sent…

Ah, juvenile humor. Got to love it. A reader posted this on Twitter, it’s a sign in the Lafayette Federal Credit Union ATM kiosk on Kenyon Street. Looks like somebody had some fun. This is the same bank that also offered “great rats” last year.

Construction noise can annoying, but at 6 am it’s terrible. I’ve heard from a reader who lives near the Upper Cardozo Health Center on 14th just south of Irving, and apparently they’ve been making lots of noise very, very early in the morning. The reader did some research, and the ANC reported they’re only allowed…