Posts tagged Neighborhood Names
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Breakfast links: The debate continues
Transit Center scuffle continues; Movin’ on up; Almost everyone uses SmarTrip; What’s in a neighborhood name?; Feds telecommute more; A check on tax incentives; Transit cutters in the house; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unwanted developments
Wage bill threatens more developments; Mixed-use Safeway causes mixed feelings; Farm-to-table, literally; Enough money for Purple & Red?; ConNeb? Comet Corner?; Can merger save Detroit?; Same story, different places; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stay safe
Dangerous intersections; Bad scheduling kills door bill; Communication breakdown; Don’t play favorites; A very particular set of skills; Don’t dis Anacostia; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The end for Kwame
Brown resigns; Chair Mendo?; Reactions; Silver Line union preference gone; Metro works way out of way out problem; GU and neighbors agree; Anacostia’s value and brand; Bradbury foresaw future without pedestrians; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Build it in Ward 8
Anacostia’s future, too short?; St. E’s triggers TOD; A pedestrian bridge across the Anacostia?; HOT lanes will lose promised transit; Gray donations violate laws; Beware the zoning Death Eaters; Road rage leads to labor (the obstetric kind); Boston neighborhoods 3 different ways; And…. Keep reading…
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Give new streets meaningful names
Montgomery County has over two hundred years of historic people, places and events that deserve recognition. Meanwhile, new streets and neighborhoods are being laid across the county as it grows, and they need names. Why can’t we think of more creative titles for them? Back in September, county officials and developers Washington Property Company celebrated the groundbreaking… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Down in the tunnels
Entrance’s prospects still foggy; Where’s the “safety culture”?; NextBus and reroutes don’t mix; If transit causes gentrification, why not in PG?; Green Fort Lincoln (except the parking ocean); Road closures in DC this weekend; Questions about place. Keep reading…
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Southeast has as many neighborhoods as Northwest
Congress Heights On the Rise reader Ambergris wrote this “Open letter to DC media.” In light of the recent shootings at 4000 South Capitol Street SE and 1300 Congress Place SE, it seems like the rest of the city is once more going to be given the impression that all of Southeast is the Wild West. One of the ways this idea is perpetuated is by referring to the entire area as… Keep reading…
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Giving Upper Northwest a bad (neighborhood) name
I’ve never really cared for the name of the neighborhood in which grew up, “North Cleveland Park.” Possibly because I didn’t grow up in North Cleveland Park. No, apparently I grew up in “Wakefield.” Unfortunately, I did not know that until I was 23. And understandably: the name is forgettable. It lacks the hanger-on cachet of “North… Keep reading…
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Montgomery County, land of few names
Silver Spring or Colesville? North Bethesda or White Flint? With large swaths of unincorporated land and few official place names in some densely populated areas, Montgomery County residents frequently debate what, exactly, to call their homes. That’s becoming especially important as areas that were once just part of larger commercial strips, like White Flint, develop… Keep reading…