Posts tagged 14th Street
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Breakfast links: Government keeping you down
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ARTS report balances bars and arts, requirements and bonuses
ANCs and other community groups have a reputation for taking an anti-change, knee-jerk anti-development point of view. Just look at yesterday’s discussion of the Georgetown ANC, including many of the comments. Over in the 14th Street area, however, a committee of residents and business owners appointed by ANC 2F has created a very thoughtful and sensible set of recommendations… Keep reading…
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It’s not the funeral lane
Reader Sean sends along this particularly egregious example of bike lane blocking. A whole row of cars parked in the bike lane in front of the church at 14th and Corcoran, NW. This was for a funeral, and while my condolences go to the family, that doesn’t constitute an exception to the rule against parking in the bike lane. Keep reading…
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Lost Washington: Washington City Orphan Asylum
The Washington City Orphan Asylum was founded in 1815 to care for the destitute children of Washington. It was originally located on H Street, NW, between 9th and 10th Streets in a building designed by Charles Bulfinch and completed in 1828. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Feel the power
It runs on STEEM; House not so into sharing; Loudoun cyclists get lower fines; Virginia’s 15th Beltway, 2135?; Zero texting tolerance; Barclays-Atlantic-Pacific; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: 14th, car-centrism, and you
Noise on 14th, from bars and politics; Huge garage better than daytime neighborhood activity?; DC, MD fix it first; VA widens it first; Pedestrian strikes front of fast-moving police cruiser; And…. Keep reading…
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Identity matters: Columbia Heights residents object to “Tivoli North”
Earlier this week, Columbia Heights residents raised alarm about proposed banners giving the name “Tivoli North” to the area along 14th Street between Monroe Street and Shepherd Street. Many people turned out to ANC 1A’s meeting on Wednesday, where the ANC voted to rescind its prior approval of the banner design in a 7-1 vote, with 2 abstentions. Keep reading…