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Wonderful selection of wall clocks • Unique selection
of art • Great mid-century settee • Mid-century wall unit, cabinets,
shelves, drawers • Shaker style three panel dressing screen
• Vintage federal style mirror • Fantastic Jeffersons' desk •
Vintage Royal typewriter... and much, much, more!
Be sure to visit our website to see more
pictures and the full item listing!
A quick scan of Nextdoor, the hyperlocal social network, shows posts about a broken toilet, a forthcoming neighborhood cleanup, and, at the very top, one titled “Hello from the Metropolitan Police Department.”
Signed by Chief of Police Peter Newsham, the post outlines how D.C. police is partnering with Nextdoor to “build community, improve quality of life, and work together to make your neighborhood safer and stronger.”
Nextdoor, which launched in the U.S. in 2011, has a feature that allows users to forward their crime and safety-related posts to participating law enforcement agencies, which now includes D.C. Newsham’s post clarifies that “MPD will not see your posts unless you use the ‘forward to police’ option. If you choose that option, it will provide you an opportunity to raise nonemergency public safety concerns with police managers assigned to your neighborhood.”
Earlier this month, UrbanTurf previewed the potential design of a proposed park spanning the North Capitol Street underpass.
Now, more details are emerging.
Diagram of features proposed along promenade. Click to enlarge.
The promenade would be atop a deck covering portions of North Capitol Street between V Street and Seaton Place. A "streetcar café" would sit at the northernmost portion approaching the intersection with Rhode Island Avenue. Streetcar tracks would be incorporated into the park on the opposite side of Rhode Island Avenue, and a lawn would have seating areas and a green buffer from the street.
Click on the link below to read the entire DCist post:
JAN 27, 2:54 PM
McMillan, D.C.’s Most Cursed Development Project, Explained
by Rachel Kurzius
A series of legal hurdles this month have stymied the long-planned, long-plagued redevelopment of the McMillan Sand Filtration Site. But for anyone who has been following this situation, the idea that the courts have dealt a blow to the project is not new. The city’s ongoing attempts to build on top of the 25 acres of land are a never-ending saga of fits and starts that go back more than a decade, and bring out some of the most heated local commentary around. But if there’s one thing that the project’s vocal fans and even more vocal opponents can agree on, it’s that this is among the most protracted, cursed projects in recent D.C. history. So what, exactly, is going on at McMillan, and why is it so controversial?
Okay, I’ll bite. What’s McMillan?
The 25-acre site right by Washington Hospital Center sits at the edge of D.C.’s Northwest quadrant, and is bordered by First Street NW, Michigan Avenue NW, North Capitol Street, and Channing Street. It was once part of the much larger McMillan Reservoir and Filtration Plant, a 92-acre plot of land built in the early 20th century as part of the City Beautiful reform movement and the McMillan Plan. The site became the first large-scale system in D.C. designed to purify the city’s water amid typhoid outbreaks. It used sand to filter the water, a process that happened in huge underground catacombs. Above ground, the sand bins resemble large silos situated alongside brick structures and concrete walls.
The entire 92-acre property was referred to as McMillan Park, according to a 2010 historic preservation report, and American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr. created a design plan, much of which was implemented between 1907 and 1919. The specific 25-acre parcel was industrial in nature, but residents could amble around a landscaped perimeter walk. However, that changed during World War II, when the U.S. Army built a fence around the property and restricted public access over concerns that the water supply could be poisoned. To this day, the area remains fenced off.
Join us to discuss McMillanPark news and how all can help.
Feb 2, 2020
1:30-3:00pm
Watha T. Daniel / Shaw Library
7th and Rhode Island Ave NW
Photo: Nelson Byrd Wolf
Our #Tarantino Movie Night series begins with Inglorious Basterds this Wednesday featuring @HeavenHillDist cocktails! Join us for a pre-movie tasting of Heaven Hill spirits at 6pm; movie begins at 7pm. And as always, free popcorn! pic.twitter.com/FD6MkR6fIy
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See the agenda below for the nextBloomingdale Civic Association meeting on Monday, 01-27-2020, at St. George's Episcopal Church, 2nd and U Street NW, at 7:00 pm. Here is the link to NoMaBID's North Capitol Street Needs Assessment Study. And note that Zachary Parker, Ward 5 representative on the DC School Board of Education, has been invited to this evening's BCA meeting.
See this Bloomingdale Civic Association resolution: "resolution requesting a traffic safety assessment and traffic calming plan for Florida Avenue between Georgia Avenue NW and New York Avenue NE"
See this document being distributed by Zachary Parker: "Here is a
document detailing why the first 1000 days of a child's life are so important." He has been invited to the Monday, 01-27-2020, Bloomingdale Civic Association meeting where he will likely speak on the topic below.
The featured open house is a new construction condo in Eckington/Truxton Circle, close to Historic Bloomingdale. There are several units still available to choose from. The agent
representing the seller is Yianni Konstantopoulos with Compass.
See the link
below
for more details and open
house times.
*Agents,
to have your open houses included in this weekly post, please have them
tagged in Bright MLS by 10am on Friday. If you don't see your open house in
the links, feel free to add in the comments. Also, if you would like
your open to be featured with a picture for this post, please e-mail
suzanne at compass dot com by 10am on Friday before the open.
See the agenda below for the nextBloomingdale Civic Association meeting on Monday, 01-27-2020, at St. George's Episcopal Church, 2nd and U Street NW, at 7:00 pm. Here is the link to NoMaBID's North Capitol Street Needs Assessment Study.
Please join us for St. Martin’s Health Fair on Sunday
January 26 2020 from 10AM to 2PM in the Pioneer Room. Cost is Free.
There will be representatives from different health care agencies around the
community as well as free blood pressure screening and free mini Zumba class at
1:30pm.
The Health Fair will take place in The Pioneer Room of the church; to enter,
you must go around the corner from the Main Church entrance on North Capitol
Street and enter from 7 T Street, NW. For more information contact us at: 202-232-1144. Please check us out on the web at: www.stmartinsdc.org
and www.facebook.com/stmartinsdc. Peace, Fr. Mike Kelley
Readers of this newsletter know that it is budget season at the
Council and in the DC government. I have been asking Ward 5
residents to share their budget priorities with me and if you have
not already done so, I encourage you to take a minute and fill out the survey.
Today I want to share with you one of the outcomes of those budget
decisions. Last year, I learned that only two of the three
Career and Technical Education academies at McKinley
Technology High School were recognized by NAF (formerly the National
Academy Foundation). While the information technology and
engineering academies were fully accredited, the biotechnology
academy lacked this important certification due to a lack of
funding.
I was able to secure the funds in last year's budget and the
biotechnology academy at McKinley Tech is now NAF-certified. In
fact, I learned earlier this month that one of McKinley's
biotechnology students received a Posse scholarship to
attend college.
I have no doubt that Christa would have earned that scholarship
regardless of her field of study, but it is because of work in last
year's budget that she was able to pursue a certified program in
biotechnology.
Councilmember
McDuffie issued a statement upon the release
of two reports from the DC Department of Small and
Local Business Development (DSLBD), the Disparity Report
Framework and Recommendations and the Minority and
Women-Owned Business Assessment.
You are
invited to the 4th annual Multilingual Education Fair of DC. This
event features over 150 exhibitors and a multilingual program for
language learners of all ages.
DATE: Saturday,
January 25
TIME: 10:00
am - 3:00 pm
LOCATION: Theodore
Roosevelt High School, 4301 13th St NW RSVP and additional details
Eleanor Holmes
Norton in Your Neighborhood - January 27
DC Department of
Transportation Ward 5 Open House - February 8
The DC School
Lottery is now open
The DC
School Lottery is now open. Deadlines to submit are February. 3 for
grades 9-12 and March 2 for PK3 – grade 8. If you have questions or
to review your options, visit myschooldc.org or call
202-888-6336.
DC Chinese New
Year Parade - January 26
You are
invited to DC’s Chinese New Year Parade. With dozens of entries,
this year’s parade promises to be the largest and most diverse yet.
Expect Chinese folk dancers, beauty queens, firecrackers, kung fu
demonstrations, floats (including lions and dragons) and plenty of
pageantry as the procession winds through Chinatown.
DATE: Sunday,
January 26
TIME: 2:00
PM
LOCATION: H
Street & 7th Street NW Additional information
