Posts tagged Pennsylvania Avenue
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This is what the FBI building site used to look like
As we face the prospect of another decade—and likely longer—with the FBI’s Hoover Building occupying prime space on Pennsylvania Avenue, it’s worth remembering the site’s past. These photos tell the story. Keep reading…
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How Pennsylvania Avenue’s Freedom Plaza failed
One of Freedom Plaza’s designers, architect Denise Scott Brown, described the original design as “a lovely success” but said “I see the execution as a failure.” Keep reading…
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As downtown DC’s Pershing Park becomes a World War I memorial, process preserves a landscape but doesn’t save the park for people
Pershing Park, a secluded pocket near the White House, is being converted into a national World War I memorial. At the behest of its promoters, the memorial removes the active spaces for people that made the park popular, while keeping secondary elements that close off the park from the city and keep it desolate. Keep reading…
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Dozens memorialize two men killed by a driver while resting on a park bench
Last Thursday evening, about 50 people braved sweltering heat to memorialize two men who were struck and killed by an SUV driver at James Monroe Park on July 10. They were the 13th and 14th people to be killed in a traffic crash in the District this year. Keep reading…
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Events: Find a home for affordable housing in the Green New Deal
Learn about how the “Green New Deal’ and housing intersect, DDOT has updates on the Connecticut Avenue Streetscape project, and you can learn about tenant co-ops this week. Keep reading…
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This 1944 proposal for a DC streetcar subway would have been the largest in the US
A swelling population in the District between the late 1930s and the early 1940s resulted in a lot of traffic congestion—as welll as calls to fix it. Many officials and companies were excited in particular about the prospect of building a subway system. Keep reading…
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Hundreds “die” on Pennsylvania Avenue for streets that don’t kill
A few hundred people rallied in front of the John A. Wilson Building at noon on Friday to demand “streets that don’t kill people” in the District. Protesters laid down on Pennsylvania Avenue and blocked the street for about eight minutes, a nod to the eight road deaths that have occured in the District so far this year. Keep reading…
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DC’s Ben Franklin statue, built by the Washington Post’s founder, has a storied past
A statue of Benjamin Franklin stands on the southeast corner of 12th St. and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. A sheaf of papers in his left hand, Franklin gestures with his right as if arguing a point of policy. He faces the avenue, his back turned to the Old Post Office Building currently occupied by the Trump Hotel. Keep reading…
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Why is Pennsylvania Avenue’s Freedom Plaza such a failure?
One of Freedom Plaza's designers, architect Denise Scott Brown, described the original design as “a lovely success” but said “I see the execution as a failure.” Keep reading…
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Trump wants a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. Here’s how locals are reacting.
Trump wants a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue — but the people who live here aren't thrilled with that idea. The mayor's office said, “Just like the wall, he will have to pay for it.” Keep reading…