Check out this Park Road cleanup on Saturday organized by Past Tense yoga studio: Please join us for a Park Road Cleanup. WHEN: Saturday April 9th, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. WHERE: Park Road NW from 14th St. to Mt. Pleasant St. We’re looking for folks of all ages to help clean up Park Road between 14th…

As you probably are aware, the government may shut down soon, meaning potentially a lot of Columbia Heights residents will be temporary without an income. A reader posed this question, got any ideas? …I am looking for full-time or part-time (anything, really) work in our neighborhood (Columbia Heights, Petworth, Mt. Pleasant, Admo) I could do…

After the post about 1483 Newton Street NW, I received a few questions from people asking how to report things to the city. The first thing I always use is the city’s 311 number, which also has a website: 311.dc.gov : you can report most issues there, as well as request bulk trash pick-up and…

As I was writing up the previous post about 1483 Newton, I received an email from a reader whose friend had their car broken into. The perpetrator then apparently took the stuff over to 1483 Newton Street NW, the abandoned building, where they looked through it and got rid of the stuff they didn’t want.…