tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51597452010-03-15T16:29:08.740-04:00History, me complaining, history, stuff about the immediate hood (Truxton Circle) and the surrounding neighborhood (Shaw), gentrification, demographics, and some more history.Marihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12378722789147387229noreply@blogger.comBlogger1959125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5159745.post-74150462930663003122010-03-08T22:33:00.003-05:002010-03-08T22:52:40.886-05:00

You know good weather is around the corning when the boyz start hanging around the corner you prayed they had abandoned. Well, it's better than the bad old days when they'd hang on the corner in bad weather, day and night. So they started hanging out Wednesday, and they've brought on new staff. There is one guy I recognize from days past, but the other guys? Ranges from 'not sure' to 'he's new'.

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This weekend a house near me got under contract, despite the price. Honestly, I thought $599K was too much, considering a house on the same block with a similar layout, but with a basement and a somewhat functional gas fireplace sold for about $150K less. Others who'd seen the interior of the higher priced home had said it was in move in condition and done very nicely. I saw the inside and

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I don't really keep up with these things, so this may be last year's news to some. But it doesn't look like Metropolitan is going to be moving from Armstrong/CAPS school anytime soon. That church they are supposedly building in PG County to move to in order to accommodate their car-centric congregation, well that's on hold. 'Cause they broke. Or 'bankrupt', using the language of my source. I

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I just rejected a SPAM comment for a old post (any post older than 14 days is moderated) about the Radio One deal. That was back in 2007. It is 2010. So 'cuse me if I'm not as hopeful as some of you about the other projects proposed back in 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004.... You get the idea.So far, in my mind, which means you're welcomed to disagree (and I'll just ignore you), anything requiring

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Edgewood has a blog- Life on the Edgewood.This blog has an update on the Metropolitian Branch Trail, which sadly won't be whole between Rhode Island Ave and New York Ave metros this Spring.

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Mt. Vernon Square lists all the stalled/ held up/ and snailed projects in Shaw. And another project that is snail or sloth-in-a-coma type projects, the Howard Theater, had its marquee fell down.

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People, if you own an iPhone, you have a portable little device that sells for about $200 on EBay broken. Not jailbroken. Cracked screen broken. So imagine if a thief manages to grab it from you fully functional. On the green line one afternoon, after work I noticed a young woman standing near the door, one hand on the handle of a suitcase burdened down with other bags and one hand, outstretched

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PoP reports here, with a hopeful picture that work is being done on this former Shiloh Baptist property. If I have the address right (1600 8th St NW?) the property was sold 12/30/2009, so if the new owner is starting now, three months later, the future is lookin' good.

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Sometime after all the youth/school related stuff at the BACA meeting, about an hour into it, we finally got to Big Bear and their general ideas of pursuing an ABC liquor license. There were two persons from Bog Bear, one being Matt Sellers, the other guy a blond barista... now if it is a guy do you call them baristas? Not baristos?Anyway. Big Bear is aiming for a CR license. For those of you

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I noticed this in the announcement for today's BACA meeting: (b) Ms. Elizabeth Lyttleton, an Eckington resident who provides occasional consulting services to Big Bear Café, asked for time on our agenda to apprise our group of the status of the cafe’s current efforts to acquire a license from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. I am advised that Ms. Lyttleton developed a scheduling

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Let's get personal at first, then we'll get real.In my general tradition I have finished my personal federal and DC taxes in the last week of February. I sort of did my federal taxes during the blizzard of 2010, but as always, there are forms and papers that trickle in the mail reminding me of donations and income I've completely forgotten about. But once you've done your federal taxes you can

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R St and NJOriginally uploaded by In Shaw1701 NJ Ave NW is up for sale, again. I swore I've seen this place pop up everyso often. Even though there is an open house for this it's priced at a 2008 "make me move" price, $729K . Considering a more spacious and private home across the street at 1718 NJ Ave sold for less than $600K (with parking, small back yard and a separate rental unit), it's not

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I just came from a unrewarding task. While putting my trash can away I noticed not 1, not 2, but about 4 home security issues of concern that could result in a break in or theft from a home or yard. Now if it was just one house, I would go to that person's house and knock on their door and point out that their back gate latch is unlatched, their rear security door (iron door) is wide open or any

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There is a workshop for folks interesting in becoming block captains on March 11 from 7-9PM at the 5th District police headquarters. I gather the goal is to improve the safety of the community. If interested please contact Jim Berry at jamojam at msn periodthingy com. Ask about the car pool.

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My friend Nathan of DC Education Blog is back and blogging and reports here and here, that DCPS spends about $28,000 a student. Not that each student gets $28,000 worth of school, books, facilities, teachers, as there is the court ordered Special Education which costs more.I took a look at the numbers, which is almost pointless because I don't do math. The libertarian Cato Institute's look at the

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Marion has mojo, a particular political mojo that allows him to get away with anything. If you could bottle his mojo it would be as valuable as that unobtainium stuff in the movie Avatar. It would make any politician invincible, so they can sleep with anyone, not bother with federal taxes, be sloppy with city funds and be a shoo in around election time. If you could bottle his power, you can rule

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1900 blk houseOriginally uploaded by In ShawI've got almost nothing today. So I decided to look back and find this house which is either in Bloomingdale or Le Droit. In this house resided once, the famous Duke Ellington. There is no marker because he moved around, so it's almost like a "Hemingway drank here" sign for a bar in Key West.

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a grocery store in neOn the Eckington listserv there is all this back and forth about the old Safeway and hoped for replacement. Please take the Harris Teeter off the list. According to an old press release HT is scheduled to open Winter 2010/2011. According to a recent DCMUD post (hat tip eckington blog), that date could be November 2010. Honestly Eckington/Edgewood area, I don't see what that

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100_0691.JPGOriginally uploaded by In ShawAnyone know what this is about?I just noticed "Zoning Variance for Renovation of 304 Q Street, NW ……Jason Bonnet, owner (5c01)" as an agenda item on the ANC 5C agenda. If there is a zoning application it isn't on the BZA schedule as far as I can tell. Good lord knows I don't want to go to the ANC meeting just to find out. But on the other hand, if there

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There is an article (PDF) out on the greatness that is Timor Bodega. Don't let the closed gate fool you, he's open. The article mentions Timor owner Kim Wee's winter veggie box program and the Union Street soaps. Last I looked he was out of Black Tea and Sage which is an awesome soap. The tea embedded in the soap give you some scrubby action in the shower, and bonus is you get to rub yourself

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Really I should stay of this. But the store that was closed for a short period due to a rat infestation. It is a store at the top of the hill and about 1/4 of a mile from the Giant near the Rhode Island metro station. I've been in the Giant a few times. I know people hate it. I've been okay with it, but haven't been in enough times to say if it's any worse than the O Street Giant. I've been in

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Because me knocking on some strangers door while I'm angry is not a good idea. My neighbors and I have shoveled our street, but the routes to the Giant, the Metro and most bus stops are ice covered danger zones for the elderly who walk with canes and have basically shut in the wheelchair bound. Haven't you noticed fewer or almost no motorized wheelchairs around lately? So my sympathy is for the

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Well I just called 911 to tell them not to bother as the fight broke up.I was just about to shut down for the night when I heard yelling. Yelling beyond the usual drunken guy walking down the street or crazed teen yelling. Looked out the window and saw loudmouth buppie lawyer in his usual loudmouth form yelling at someone. It took me a while to figure out what the heck he was screaming about. A

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Okay I guess the credit would go to DC Rec and KIPP and a 'few' homeowners along the way. But if you are going east to west along P Street the path along the Kennedy Playground on P is nice and big and clear. It continues along the church on P and 6th, and then it get's icy. You have to cross over to the KIPP school where it is also big and clear and at NJ it is a icy walk. NJ is when I turn and

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I was a little bit snarky when I got the announcement about a gathering in Shaw regarding worker's rights. The PDF, which I'm not attaching, mainly because my Firefox don't like PDFs, says:Workers' Rights Board HearingWage TheftDC's Hidden CrimeEvery day hard working people in DC are denied their fair wages. Workers are:+ Classified as contractors+ Denied overtime+Paid below minimum wage, paid

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