Posts tagged Mount Vernon Square
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Breakfast links: Safer and more affordable
Hit, kill, run; Cycle tracks in College Park?; Affordable housing activity; Off the job for 9 years, come back, derail a train; MV Square market unpermitted, but should be permissible?; After the flood; How are Kenyan riots like the snowpocalypse?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Monarchy yields to democracy
USDOT dethrones king car; Metro morsels; Many ideas, none great; Don’t try to walk in PW; Not the employee lot; MV Square farmers market raided; Make some art for Columbia Heights. Keep reading…
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Brunch links: Silly governments and parking
Bad economy means parking lot; Not what we mean by maximums; Smarter parker; Metro needs fixing, still safest; OK, we preserved enough?; “Tarnished my respect for the police a bit”; The Martians of PG don’t mind. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New policies for the new year
Meters go to 10; Stop the bad planning, New York!; Feed the kids local food; One fewer house; Right way to be bright; More than just red, yellow, and green; What technology could do. Keep reading…
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Plans envision multimodal “crossroads” at Mt. Vernon Square
DC’s least successful bicycle and transit infrastructure is on 7th and 9th Streets, NW, where drivers constantly occupy the dedicated bus-bike lanes. That’s one of the problems the DC Office of Planning and DDOT hope to address with a new study of the Mount Vernon Square area and 7th and 9th Streets. Planners also looked at ways to improve the area’s parks,… Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Party, performance parking, public plazas, and park pathways
The Greater Greater Washington holiday party is in four days! Join us at RFD, in the back room, starting at 7 pm on Tuesday, December 8th. You can enter the back room directly from 8th Street, NW between H and I or walk through from the front entrance on 7th. Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown. Keep reading…
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Small lots to parking lots to big buildings: The evolution of Mt. Vernon Square
Historic aerial photos offer a glimpse into the evolutionary history of some of DC’s neighborhoods, showing decline, redevelopment, and the ever-changing urban fabric of the city. DCist takes note of a great photo of the Mt. Vernon Square area from 1992, looking south towards the Portrait Gallery and what’s now the Verizon Center: It’s amazing… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: In talks
Mount Vernon Square Garden?; A dome or a neighborhood?; Three years of Berliner; More concrete than crystal; New parks, cheap; If parking spaces could vote, they’d be set; Death and life of cute dresses. Keep reading…
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Mount Vernon Square, 1887
While we tend to think of most of the circles and squares in Washington as having been planed to be exactly what they are today, most of them changed as new monuments and buildings were planned for the city. Here we have Mount Vernon Square ca. 1887. Instead of a building dominating the square, it is an open park with a fountain in the middle. The old City Library that is there… Keep reading…