UDC’s work on the new student center is temporarily disrupting the flow of vehicle and pedestrian traffic on Van Ness Street just west of Connecticut Avenue. This is nothing like […]
Archives for January 2014
The Siren Call Of Trader Joe’s
by Marlene Berlin and Sharon Bauer Trader Joe’s would rake it in at a Van Ness location. How do we know this? The response to our October/November retail survey, in […]
MoveDC Moving On Final DC Transportation Plan
Update: “Due to the winter weather warning for Tuesday, January 21, 2014, we are postponing tomorrow’s TPAC meeting and will reschedule it soon.” Stay tuned. MoveDC, DDOT’s effort to form […]
Last Chance To Be Heard On Zoning Rewrite
If you have a strong opinion on the proposed changes to DC’s 1958 zoning code and the Zoning Commission has not yet heard from you, your chance comes on Tuesday, […]
Where The Sidewalk Ends?
by Mary Beth Ray ANC 3F03 Commissioner With apologies to poet Shel Silverstein, many of us know the place at 32nd and Albemarle where the sidewalk ends. And these days […]
Teaching Moments: UDC’s Pre-Civil War Roots
by David Jonas Bardin A major landmark in our neighborhood is the University of the District of Columbia’s main campus. Though it’s smack in the middle of our neighborhood now, […]
UDC Community Meeting Jan. 30th
The last meeting cancelled due to weather, UDC’s Community-Campus Task Force will now meet on January 30th and provide updates on the construction of the new student center and other […]
ANC 3F’s Next Meeting: 32nd Sidewalk, Security Fund
A push to install a sidewalk on the 4800 block of 32nd Street and the ANC Security Fund (PDF) are on the agenda of the first ANC 3F meeting of […]
Work On Buried Streams Moving Along
by Marlene Berlin Things are starting to move on both the Broad Branch stream daylighting and the Linnean Playground water rehabilitation project. You may have seen the piles of mulch […]
The Scoop On Poop
by Patricia Davies Maybe it’s because it shows up more in the snow, or that I’ve trodden in a pile of it a couple of times recently (yuck!!) while picking […]