Posts tagged East Of The River
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Future of Sharpe Health School still uncertain
Sharpe Health School, a school for disabled students in Petworth, could close, sending students to the former River Terrace Elementary School in Ward 7. Not only is River Terrace inaccessible to disabled students, but parents fear its location could put their kids at risk. Sharpe and Mamie D. Lee, another school for the disabled in Fort Totten, will be combined in fall 2014 and… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The numbers tell all
Pay to play?; DC wins more residents among workers; Where homes sell slowest; Why engineers pooh-poohed cycle tracks; Bike thief contronted, laughs; It’s not “Breakfast at Citibank”; What’s next for MARC; And… Keep reading…
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Suitland Parkway Trail is a mess. Will leaders seek change?
I’m biking on the Suitland Parkway Trail to work, swerving around broken glass and under low-hanging tree branches. Highway traffic roars past just inches away. Suddenly, the trail ends. Friday is the official Bike to Work Day, so on Monday, I did a test-run of a new route from my home in Trinidad to work in Suitland. What I found is that DC, Prince George’s County, and… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Take transit farther
More Circulator, more expensive; Bike part of the way to work; Up with pop-ups; Even more anti-Purple Line candidate wins; Should Arlington Cemetery expand?; More bike lanes and clarity; Baltimore bikeshare?; Density leads to dollars; An ambitious plan for SW; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving to the future
Streetcars alight in DC; “Young urbanists” electorally growing; Rooftop bars mapped; Height study starts with meetings; DC-CANnot give you Internet; Government goings-on; Freeloading ends in Ocean City; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where the headquarters go
Police HQ swap for DCU stadium?; Post wants “cheap” HQ, handouts; The housing action is in cities; Single unemployed people don’t buy homes; McAuliffe backs ethics panel; Metro morsels; Bike bits; Development dollops; Forethought for Foxx. Keep reading…
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Is the city’s last horse tie in Anacostia?
Blue stone curbing, laid primarily in the late 19th and early 20th century, can still be found in parts of Capitol Hill, Le Droit Park, Mount Pleasant, and Georgetown. On U Street SE, in Historic Anacostia, blue stone curbing also endures, holding possibly the last remaining horse tie in the city. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The military and the battle
Tanks roll into Ft. Totten; Rock Creek bike crossing needed; Mara leads in cash; McAuliffe doubles Cuccinelli; Trains to Virginia getting popular; Banning vans as rape prevention?; Wheaton moving too slow; Who has frequent network maps?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dig yourself a hole
DC Water is spending big; Bonds’ platform: “I’m black”; Benning is better; MPD not releasing marijuana data; Landmark Mall redevelopment far off; How smart is Street Smart?; Count traffic for $200; And… Keep reading…
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Vacancy at the Parkway Guest House abandominium
Perched atop a hill overlooking historic Anacostia, tucked behind a new condominium development is an abandominium from an era the city has left behind and this neighborhood is trying to forget. From the 1960s until the last decade the Parkway Guest House was a gathering spot for drugs, prostitution and all forms of illegality. During the 1990s it essentially became “a… Keep reading…