This seems legit. There seem to be a fair amount of weird ATMs in our area (like this other one next to Five Guys), and the other day I spotted this freestanding one at 14th and Spring, next to the Carolina nightclub. Yikes. Even if it was working I’m not sure I’d use a freestanding…
A couple of weeks ago I noticed some work at the Bacon Funeral Home, the cement block construction site at 3447 14th Street NW. The building has been a shell for years, with no progress at all. The only work that has been done was to secure it against vagrants and to finish a roof,…
If you bought a house a few years ago, it seems like you’re in luck. Slate Properties, a local real estate firm, just published a chart of historical house sale prices for our area. Basically, the average list and sale prices have increased dramatically for houses and condos over the past 5 years: a three…
I noticed something a bit ago on the bus stops at Georgia & New Hampshire: this baby looks like Macklemore.And I think it’s more than the haircut — the baby looks older than a baby, or something, and they even kind of have the same face. That said, Shiners Hospital is a good cause. I…
Looks like Spring Road in northern Columbia Heights is starting to heat up as a location for residential development. A couple of years ago we heard about apartments coming to the southwest corner of 14th and Spring, to wrap around the existing corner store and Chinese takeout. Those are making progress, there’s workers out there…
This Thursday night starting at 7, hundreds of people came together in Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park in solidarity of Mike Brown, the teenager killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri. The rally was a nice scene: many people united by anger and pain, agreeing to do something non-violently about it. It was difficult to judge the…
Powerful picture we took today at Howard University #Ferguson #MikeBrown #MyaWhite #DONTSHOOT pic.twitter.com/ttdVg33n5w — Megan Sims (@The_Blackness48) August 14, 2014 The recent events in Ferguson, Mo., where police officers shot an unarmed young man, followed by unrest and protests, has some local reactions as well. Today a large group of Howard University students took a…
Thank you, public sector workers @dcfireems @DCPoliceDept pic.twitter.com/iJqW9KtZGX — Michelle Ringuette (@Ringuette) August 7, 2014 Last Thursday, the DC Fire & EMS Department responded to a fire on the 1400 block of Belmont Street NW in southern Columbia Heights. It turns out an apartment building caught fire in a two-alarm blaze and dozens of residents…
Last night I was at Looking Glass Lounge for trivia, and we spotted a funny van outside: advertising a company called Tomato Electric, the van featured a red man with a tomato for his head with a lightning bolt going through him, plus another on his chest, and the tagline “We’re ripe for your business.”…
Last night was the community meeting on the redevelopment of 1125 Spring Rd NW, the old Washington Hebrew Home. As you may recall, the city plans to make it affordable housing, but at the meeting it was clear that local residents disagree on how much it should be. The meeting also included a new detail,…