ANC meetings often make news. Sometimes ANC meeting agendas do, too. Take, for example, the agenda for ANC 3F’s meeting on Tuesday, November 18th (below). Note the agenda item about 3415 Yuma Street NW. That’s the parking structure behind the Days Inn, and you might recall that the hotel’s operator put the property up for […]
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Neighborhood in the News: More charges in child’s Connecticut House death; The ‘Gray Resistance;’ Broad Branch flooding don’ts
A tragic anniversary: One year ago this month, young DeAndre Pettus died at Connecticut House. He was only five years old. At that time, DeAndre’s father was charged with cruelty to children. In July, NBC Washington reports, a grand jury indicted the senior DeAndre Pettus on more charges. The “gray resistance” in Van Ness and […]
Neighborhood in the News: Mayor’s new DC Archives plan; New management at the Rock Creek Horse Center
Mayor Bowser’s DC Archives and UDC housing pivot: After years of planning, and with millions of dollars already spent on the DC Archives project on the UDC campus, Mayor Muriel Bowser now wants to build student housing at the site instead. Bowser, in her May 27th budget reveal, billed the changes as cost-saving measures. But […]
Neighborhood in the News: At Forest Hills Playground, anxiety – and solidarity
These have been tense times. And this week, amplifying the feelings of anxiety and fear, were warnings, then reports, of Immigration and Customs Enforcement visits to several DC restaurants. Those visits occurred on Tuesday. On Wednesday, rumors spread online that ICE was targeting nannies at Forest Hills Playground. Reporters who went to the playground to […]
UDC Van Ness farmers market opens April 19 with a new urban farmer in the vendor lineup
This Saturday, the UDC Van Ness farmers market returns for an extended season with many familiar vendors and some new faces. The newcomers include Quinta Jackson Burns, a 2012 UDC law school grad who began her urban farming journey during the pandemic. UDC says Burns is the first participant of UDC’s Beginning Farmer Program to […]
How much are clean DC streams worth? UDC researchers need our help to figure out the answers.
We have an opportunity to assist UDC with some research on water quality and recreation in DC’s rivers and streams. Volunteers don’t have to conduct any water testing. And they don’t have to know anything at all about water quality. What the researchers want are our perspectives on the value of these local assets based […]
Neighborhood in the News: Rock Creek Horse Center, Comet shooter, Carter remembered
The future of the Rock Creek Horse Center is in flux. “Those who use the facility say they’ve been told by employees that changes are coming, and it is possible the horses would be relocated and the facility would be likely to close as soon as the end of February or March,” reports The Washington […]
UDC retail update: MOM’s, Dog Haus, The Whale Tea and a smoothie place
Work on the MOM’s Organic Market at Van Ness continues inside. But a key step prior to the store’s opening happens outside: the installation of the signs. At the February 6th meeting of the UDC Community-Campus Task Force, MOM’s landlord UDC said the signs (which even had the federal government weighing in via the Commission […]
ANC 3F News: New officers, recruiting school crossing guards, and Community Grants 101
ANC 3F’s January 14th meeting covered a lot of ground and made a lot of news, including: The exterior demolition of UDC’s tallest structure, Building 41, is to begin this month. Albemarle Street east of Connecticut might not reopen until the end of July. And DDOT scrapped a proposal to make Davenport Street between Linnean […]
School updates: Construction and deconstruction at three campuses; UDC prof up for a Grammy; The Fonz at Murch
We published our previous School Updates roundup at the beginning of the school year. Now, the year is half over for the K-12 and college students in our midst! Here’s some of what’s happening: The Sidwell Friends and Sheridan School expansion projects are under way. We last reported in 2017 on Sidwell’s plans – and […]
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