Bloomingdale resident mugged on North Capitol Street

See this message from a Bloomingdale resident:

Last night I was mugged on North Capitol St. Just above Rhode Island Ave (before U st NW) as I was heading north to my apartment from Harris Teeter. Three af-am young man (anywhere from 18-25) grabbed my neck from behind and pulled me down. As a scream and tried to get loose, they grabbed my cell phone and ran off heading east on Rhode Island Ave. I called the police and they came immediately and were very help. I just wanted to pass a warning along. I do not know if there were similar incidents happening lately. I know that there have been some break-ins involving the theft of bikes so I thought I`d pass this along. I am a 24 year old girl and I was talking on the phone and walking alone. I realize that I should have been more aware of the time and my surroundings, but I also hadn`t felt unsafe in the neighborhood before.

burglary arrest on the 2200 block of 1st St NW

First, see this tweet from yesterday:  ``phillipstutts‏ @phillipstutts -- @Bloomingdaledc #bloomingdaledc -failed break-in unit alley of Adams/W St NW. DCPD caught 3 Af-Am teens.Warned me rash of burglaries lately.``

Now see this message from Fifth District Commander Andy Solberg:

From: "Solberg, Andrew (MPD)"

To: "Fifth District (MPD-5D @ yahoogroups.com)"
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:52 PM
Subject: [MPD-5D] Another burglary arrest

Today at about 9:50 am, police were called about three young men trying to force open a window in the back of a house in the 2200 block of 1st St., NW .  The person who called 911 gave a good description of the young men and the direction they were headed when they left the house.

Our mountain bike officers, who have been deployed along both sides of North Capitol Street to combat recent burglaries, spotted one the men in the unit block of T St., NE , carrying a bag.  This man was stopped and later, based on information we developed with the help of 5D detectives, the man was arrested and charged with burglary.  Evidence was recovered from the man, and alert officers who were in the area checked trash cans along the route of travel and found additional items that had been taken from the burglary in a trash can in an alley.

I am proud of the work that Fifth District officers have done to arrest three men in two days for burglaries, but I want to tell the community that I believe that in today’s arrest, it was absolutely the call to 911 that allowed us to capture this man and make an arrest.

We ask that you call 911 whenever you see, hear, or believe that unusual or suspicious activity is taking place.  Do not confront persons you see, but retreat and call 911 and provide as much information as possible: clothing colors, physical descriptions with height and weight (or even a rough estimate at body build—short and heavy, muscular, tall and thin, etc.), hair color and length and style, any unusual characteristics you notice, direction of travel when you last saw him/them, and anything else that seems relevant.

Today’s burglary happened in the rear of a house that was open to the alley—i.e., no fence or garage, no gates, no deterrent factors, and it seems that the suspects were not afraid to commit this crime in the rear of a busy street at mid-morning in a wide-open area behind a house. 

We are working very hard to catch the persons who have been committing these burglaries, but I want to again ask for your help: call 911, please, when you think we should come and check things out.

Andy Solberg

Commander, 5D

Bloomingdale resident Steuart Martens invites you to attend the 2012 Taste of DC Launch Party

Note that one of the coordinators is Bloomingdale resident (and Apprentice contestant!) Steuart Martens:

From: Taste of DC paperlesspost@paperlesspost.com
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:55 PM
Subject: 2012 Taste of DC Launch Party

Rustik Tavern now hiring

See this message from Rustik Tavern`s Diton Pashaj:

 

 

 

Rustik Tavern now hiring.

Rustik Tavern is now hiring for full/part time server and host positions. Weekends are a must. Please send resume with a cover letter to info@rustikdc.com.

 

Lydia: "McMillan plan heads to HPRB review with most neighborhood groups opposed"

Okay, here is Lydia DePillis` post this morning:

McMillanPlan Heads to Historic Preservation Review With Most Neighborhood Groups Opposed

Posted by Lydia DePillis on May. 24, 2012 at 7:45 am

If it were not clear before, let the current state of discussion around planning for the McMillan Sand Filtration Plant leave no doubt that this site is the biggest development headache in the entire city (which, considering the competition, is saying something).

 

At the moment, there is a master plan for the 25-acre site, which the Historic Preservation Review Board will take up today—though I`ll be shocked if they finish it without overflowing to another session. After re-starting the two-decade-old planning process in 2010, and another round of ``salons`` to introduce their concept to the surrounding neighborhoods, developers Jair Lynch and EYA have racked up a chorus of qualified ``no``s: The Pleasant Plains Civic Association and neighboring Advisory Neighborhood Commission 1B voted unanimously to oppose it as too dense for the historic nature of the site. The Bloomingdale Civic Association was overwhelmingly against it, passing a four-page resolution outlining objections and recommendations. The Committee of 100 also weighed in on the side of less development, along with Councilmember Phil Mendelson.

In a somewhat surprising move, however, the ANC that actually includes McMillan decided to be constructive: They decided on Tuesday to support the plan, with a short list of issues on which they`ll continue to work with the developers to improve. The vote was almost evenly split, with three white, relatively new commissioners leading the charge for something different (not that race or length of service is a real dividing line here, since people of all types fall on both sides, but the pro-development camp in this case includes more longer-term commissioners, and had been backed by ex-Councilmember Harry Thomas). Listed concerns include the amount of open space on the site, stormwater and traffic management, and the fine points of a new recreation center.

If data collected by another neighborhood advisory group set up to negotiate a community benefits agreement is any indication, the park issue is an important one for folks living around the site. Preliminary results from 455 surveys administered door-to-door at the homes surrounding McMillan found that 85 percent want at least half the site preserved as open space. The current proposal actually comes close to that, but it`s difficult to see, since it`s spread across one large park and a few smaller areas.

The problem here is that, other than developers and bloggers—and let`s face it, who naturally trusts either?—few people are out there making the case that the site needs a certain number of housing units in order to attract the kind of retail and new transportation options that people always ask for. Meanwhile, the folks who want open space also want shorter buildings, when taller ones would allow for more of everything.

It`s also true, however, that the plan thus far isn`t especially charismatic in how it re-uses the site. Without detailed architectural renderings, the development program appears conventional. The 4.6-acre park in the center will be nice enough, retaining a row of the old silos for a flavor of what used to be there, but it`s easy to focus instead on the 18 out of 20 underground cells that will be destroyed. Perhaps that`s practical, at a time when public funding for non-market goods is hard to come by. It`s just not a powerful enough vision to win over the skeptics, who tend to drive these community processes, and who argue that the site is so special it needs something unlike anything else in D.C. (To some extend, they also say no as a negotiating position, thinking that to say ``yes, but`` loses them all leverage down the line.)

As for the Historic Preservation Office itself, which typically drives the opinion of the Board: The staff report is very understanding of the developer`s challenges, and just asks for a greater degree of attention to some of the site`s historic contours, as well as a greater setback from North Capitol Street. So perhaps they`ll sign off on the plan on after all.

found dog

See this Wednesday, May 23, 2012 message at 2:14 pm from ANC 5C03 Commissioner Hugh Youngblood:

   
A lady just found this dog lost in the street near LeDroit Dog Park on the 200 Block of V St NW running across the street to the church parking lot. Please alert the local canine community.
       
I'm riding with her now to drop off the dog at the shelter on NY Ave.

BACA blog: the 3 ANC 5C commissioners from Bloomingdale vote to *support* the medical marijuana dispensary in Truxton Circle

See this post at the Bates Area Civic Association (BACA) blog on last night's ANC 5C vote on the proposed medical marijuana dispensary at 1334 North Capitol Street NW:

ANC Votes on Medical Marijuana Dispensary

Posted on May 22, 2012

by mrgeovani

I am not copying in the entire blog post -- just the end of the post with the results of the actual vote taken by the twelve ANC 5C commissioners:

                                                              

The ANC Vote – 12 ANC commissioners present

                                                                                                                   

6 ANC commissioners opposed the application (voted to uphold majority of community opposition)

                  

3 Bloomingdale ANC commissioners voted to support the application to operate the dispensary at 1334 N. Capitol St NW

                               

3 ANC commmissioners abstained from voting

                 

The motion to oppose the application passed. The interesting vote was from our friends and Bloomingdale neighboring ANCs. Maybe the vote in support indicates that Bloomingdale may be a welcoming neighborhood to the dispensary

bicycle stolen from shed

See this 5/22/2012 message:

I live on the unit block of V St NW.  When I got home from work today I found the door to my shed broken open and my bike stolen.  I haven`t ridden the bike in a year, so no one has seen it going in or out of the shed in a long time.  They must have been seeing what they would find.  If anyone see a dark orange Trek, please contact me at Todd20036 @ gmail.com.  Thanks.

ANC 5C meeting tonight, 5-22-2012; agenda includes vote on HPRB application for McMillan

From: ``Edwards, Ronnie (ANC 5C11)`` <5C11 @ anc.dc.gov>

Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 8:58 AM

Subject:  Notice of ANC 5C Revised Meeting Agenda - Tuesday, May 22, 2012

                     

We`ve revised our meeting agenda for Tuesday, May 22, 2012.Hope that you will be able to join us for this very important meeting. We have several important issues that we will be discussing - including we are hoping that our newly elected Ward 5 Councilmember, Mr Kenyan McDuffie will be able to join with us.Look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

                     

Ronnie Edwards, 5C11, Chairman

Advisory Neighborhood Commission 5C

(202) 413 - 2715

Government of the District of Columbia

ADVISORY NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION 5C

PO Box 26183 . Washington, DC 20001 . www.ANC5C.COM

                                  

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 All Nations Baptist Church

7:00pm -9:00pm 2001 North Capitol Street NE

               

Notice/Agenda

Monthly Public Meeting

                                                    

At the appropriate time, all attendees will be given the opportunity to participate in the meeting, offer suggestions

and make recommendations for consideration. Unless otherwise noted, floor time is limited to 60 seconds. During deliberations, Commissioners are limited to 5-minute presentations and 90 seconds for comment. Please limit your comments accordingly. Thanks in advance for your cooperation.

**************************************

Part I: Opening

Call to Order……………………………………………………………………….…..Chairman Edwards

Roll Call/Quorum.……….……………………………………….…….……………Commissioner Brent

Adoption of Agenda

Review/Approval of Minutes.…………………………………………………….Commissioner Brent

Part II: Business Administration

Financial Report.………..………….………..…………………..……….……….Commissioner Ransom

Report& Pay Bills/Auditor`s Release of Allotment…….……..…….……Commissioner Farmer-Allen

Update re: Purchase of Pooper Scooper………………………………………….Commissioner Brent

Part III: Community Concerns, Updates and Resolutions

1. Remarks from New Ward 5 Councilmember…………………………………...Kenyan McDuffie

(To Be Confirmed) Councilmember Elect

2. Introduction of New Business Owner – Anthony Sloan

Subway Shop @ Hawaii Avenue Strip Mall……………………….……..Commissioner Ransom

3. Review and Vote on Proposed Medical Marijuana Cultivation Center

Venture Forth, LLC……………………………………………………Mr. David A. Guard, Applicant

1334 North Capitol Street NW……………………….……Commissioners Pinkney and Thomas

4. Review and Vote on Historic Preservation Review Board Application

McMillan Sand Filtration Site……………..…..Deputy Mayor For Economic Development

Vision McMillan Partners

5. Review of Application for Public Space Permit

Construction of New Driveway and Curb Cut

1744 North Capitol Street NW

6. Resolution in support of Removing two (2) Bus Stops @

1st and R Streets NE………………………………………………………..Commissioner Pinkney

7. ABRA Renewal License – Kearney Grocery…………………….………Commissioner Pinkney

8. Update/Action Plan Re: Edgewood Field House………………….……Commissioner Phillips

Michael Clark, President Edgewood Civic Association

9. Community Concerns

Adjournment…………....………..……………………………………….…………………

Notice Issued on Monday, May 14, 2012 – Revised May 16, 2012

"Feud over Crispus Attucks Park" Washington Post article

Oh brother.
             

See this 5/21/2012 Washington Post on Crispus Attucks Park.

                                     

A number of Bloomingdale residents are referenced.

                                 

Note that this article is accompanied by a few pics, so you can click on the WaPo link below to see them.

                            
A feud over a D.C. park pits one man against his neighbors
By Paul Schwartzman, Published: May 21

Patrick Blais had been president of his Northwest Washington community park for a year
when his doorbell rang at 9:45 on a Saturday night.

Outside was a self-styled community activist, an African American whom Blais had never
met: Marvin A. Rich.
                                      
Rich, accompanied by two women, came to launch another salvo in a neighborhood spat
that has turned ugly enough to draw the attention of police commanders and
advisers to Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D).

The dispute could be viewed as a clash of familiar antagonists — gentrifiers vs.
old-timers, whites vs. blacks. While some of that friction exists, the conflict
is more convoluted and bizarre, pitting one fixated man against his infuriated
neighbors. Naturally, both sides have hired attorneys.

Blais, a white corporate executive, remembers Rich telling him in his living room that
night that Blais was not the true president of Crispus Attucks Park, nestled at
the center of a block of rowhouses in Bloomingdale.

``I own the park,`` Rich pronounced, according to Blais.

Blais said that a not-for-profit organization owns the park and that it had elected him president.

``No,`` Rich replied. ``I`m the president.`` He described himself as ``the founder,``
adding, ``I report to a higher board.``

Rich confirmed Blais`s account, except he said he never told Blais he owned the park
and doesn`t remember any reference to a higher board.

Blais asked Rich and the women to leave, and they complied. But they kept up their
campaign for control of the park, a quest that Blais and his neighbors allege
in a lawsuit is racially charged and driven by intimidation and fraud — charges
Rich denies.

Blais and his allies sought help from police and city hall, both of which refused to
intervene. The reason: District documents in which the park`s president is
listed as none other than Marvin A. Rich.
                                                                                     
Changing neighborhood
                          
Blais and Rich are suing each other in D.C. Superior Court, each claiming control of
the Crispus Attucks Development Corp., which has owned the park under one name
or another since the 1970s.

``I was here first, I grew up here, I`m from here,`` Rich, 53, said in an
interview. ``They`re fake. They`re pirates. They should have patches over their eyes.``

Blais and his allies dismiss such statements as fable. Where, they ask, was Rich when
they were raising money, organizing yard sales, planting irises? Where was he
when they turned an asphalt jumble into a lush vista?

``Marvin Rich and his family are disrespecting the park, with impunity,`` said Blais,
who is also suing Rich`s daughter and girlfriend. ``It`s a laughable fraud.``

Burbling beneath the dispute are the jagged passions of a rapidly changing neighborhood.
A decade ago, Bloomingdale`s population was 90 percent black. Since then, an
influx of young professionals has made it 30 percent white.

John Salatti, a white Bloomingdale civic leader, said Rich has long been consumed
with the shift. At various points, Salatti said, residents have complained
about Rich driving his truck through the neighborhood blaring speeches by the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

``I think it`s a matter of identity,`` Salatti said. ``The neighborhood has changed
from his heyday. He`s losing his place.``

Rich doesn`t see it that way. He said he has ``no problem`` with the more recent
arrivals, ``as long as they develop my community.``

One point everyone agrees on is that Rich was there at the beginning, when the
property that became Crispus Attucks Park was a concrete wasteland, a place
kids referred to as the ``Cave Yard.``

The idea is planted

The phone company owned the land from 1910 until the early 1970s. The company left
behind a vacant brick building that inspired neighborhood leaders to start a
community center offering activities such as music and photography.

Richard Sowell, the center`s leader, told a Washington Post reporter in 1978 that he
got the idea from Rich, then a teenager who had grown up a block away, one of
12 children of a D.C. transit worker. Sowell managed Crispus Attucks, named for
the African American who was among the citizens killed by British troops at the
Boston Massacre in 1770.

But Rich was ``the guy who held the keys and opened the doors,`` said Garry Clark,

an African American who grew up in Bloomingdale. ``That was his baby.``

After an auspicious start, the center lost funding and staff. A massive fire in 1990
devastated the building, and the property became a nest for junkies,
prostitutes and abandoned cars.

By 1998, when Marilyn Lashley, a Howard University professor, moved to the block,
the city had begun foreclosing on the property. Residents tried to contact the
board, but it had not met in eight years. They held an election and created a
new board, which set out to turn the concrete into a park.

When the board purchased 10 trees for planting, Lashley said, Rich and Sowell
brought kids to ``dig up the trees.`` ``They harassed us,`` said Lashley, 64,
who is black. ``Marvin and Rick were saying they were opposed to white people
moving in, and we reminded them that blacks lived here, too.``

Rich denies ordering trees dug up and said he never expressed opposition to whites
moving in. Sowell died in the early 2000s.

Rich, according to Lashley and others, did nothing to help build the park. He was not
around, they say, when they organized teenagers to form the ``Yard Squad,``
cutting grass and landscaping for pay.

``That`s what galls me,`` said Tyrone Goodwyn, 51, an African American IT director and a
park board member. ``Marvin says white people took the park, and he needs to
take it back for the kids. We`re already doing it.``

About a year ago, recalled Kevin Caldwell, a researcher who is white, Rich drove onto
the grass blasting Peter Frampton music. When Caldwell asked him to lower the
volume, Rich yelled ``that we shouldn`t be in the park,`` Caldwell said. Rich,
he said, called them ``card-carrying members of the KKK.``

Rich confirmed the confrontation, although he said the neighbors tried to intimidate
him. Asked about the KKK reference, Rich said, ``They probably are.`` Then: ``I
don`t remember. I can`t say I didn`t.``

Tim Clark, a black community leader in Bloomingdale, said he sympathizes with Rich
because of his role in the creation of Crispus Attucks. But he has asked Rich
to refrain from derogatory remarks.

``He`s making it easy for them not to include him,`` Clark said.

One night, after neighbors called police because Rich had driven on the grass, an
officer brought Blais a copy of a document that Rich had shown them. It was a ``confirmatory
deed,`` processed in February, stating that Rich replaced Lashley as Crispus
Attucks`s ``signatory officer`` in 2003.

Lashley said no such transfer ever occurred.

Blais then learned that Rich had filed papers with the District declaring himself
president of Crispus Attucks. At a civic association meeting, a spectator taped
Rich several times referring to the park as ``my land`` and saying, ``Ya`ll
want to go hang out on my land, I don`t care.``

Blais met and exchanged e-mails with police and District officials to complain about

Rich, only to be told that no one could intervene. ``The Executive Branch . . . was not designed or
authorized to ultimately rule on disputes of this nature,`` Stephen Glaude, the
mayor`s director of community affairs, wrote to Blais.

Assistant Police Chief Diane Groomes wrote in an e-mail: ``Mpd unfortunately cannot move
mr rich for he has a permit . . . sorry.`` Groomes wrote that police assigned
to Bloomingdale have ``been made aware of Mr. Rich.``

Police have known of Rich since 1981, when he was arrested on charges of petit
larceny. It was the first of more than 10 arrests, according to court records.
Nearly every time, the charges were dismissed.

In an interview, Rich said police harassed him and his family. His sister, Tanya,
then 23 and pregnant, was killed with her 3-year-old daughter in 1991 when a
police cruiser smashed into her car.

In 2009, Rich was found guilty of assaulting an officer. A judge ordered a
psychological evaluation, during which Rich could not say which schools he
attended or ``the last grade he had completed,`` according to the report. The
psychologist described Rich as ``alert and marginally cooperative`` but said
his answers were ``at times illogical, tangential, and contained paranoid and
persecutory content.``

During a second examination, Rich kept mentioning Crispus Attucks. At one point, he
referred to his ``long-term project`` of finding a statue that ``somehow dealt
with Crispus Attucks.`` Rich, the therapist wrote, ``returned to this topic
whenever there was even a one or two second pause.``

No one budging

From the bench, D.C. Superior Court Judge Peter Arno Krauthamer suggests mediation
to resolve the lawsuits. One side needs to give a little, he says. The other side, too.

Blais won`t budge. Nor Rich. Witnesses come and go. The morning becomes the late afternoon.

``We`re done, right?`` the judge asks.

For now.

Outside Blais says, ``Just because you say you`re president of Coke, and you file fake
papers to prove it, doesn`t mean you`re president of Coke.``

Rich talks of the newcomers in his neighborhood.

``They don`t want to deal with Marvin Rich,`` he says. ``They should be working with me.``

Then: ``They`re going to have to hire some better lawyers.``

And then: ``I can hear him from his grave.``

He does not identify whose voice he hears.

The voice tells him, he says, ``You`re not going to let it go that easy.``

Bloomingdale Civic Association meeting -- tonight, 5-21-2012

Supplied by BCA President Teri Janine Quinn:

 

Bloomingdale Civic Association Meeting Agenda

Monday May 21, 2012 at 7p.m.

St. George`s Episcopal Church, 160 U Street, NW

I. Unfilled BCA Executive board positions

II. Update on McMillian and vote on the project`s application before the Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB)

III. Report on Special Election for the Ward 5 Council Seat

IV. 1744 North Capitol Curb Cut Proposal

V. Request for support of Showtime’s ABRA liquor license

VI. Committee Reports

VII. Updates from Bloomingdale Representatives

a. Executive Office of the Mayor

b. Offices of the At Large Council Members & the Chairman’s Office

c. ANC (Bloomingdale Commissioners)

d. MPD Presentation on recent robberies

VIII. Upcoming Events

Tuesday, May 22 ANC 5C meeting

Thursday, May 24 HPRB hearing on McMillian

"suspicious woman"

See these two message from Bloomingdale residents:

From a household on the 100 block of W St NW:

There is a heavy set woman, about 40-50 years ago , black, she walks slowly and asks for money, usually a dollar, so she can buy something to eat. She frequents the homes around the Flagler Market at W and Flagler Place NW.   She often knocks on doors from 9-11 PM. If you answer the door and turn her away, she often knocks over a plant or pot on the front porch. Don`t answer the door and don`t say anything. She will just quietly walk away.  She says that she lives on the 100 block of Adams ST NW but I don`t know if that is true.

  

From a 1^st St NW resident:

She`s been in the neighborhood for a week or so, wandering up and down first street begging money in different states of fu**ed-up-ed ness. 

She was out of her mind on Thursday afternoon begging for two dollars from every person she came within a block of.

When she came to me I politely said ``I`m sorry ma`am``, as I always do when a clearly  messed up person is begging money. I then walked down to the corner of first and rhode island to catch a cab. 

She eventually made it down to where I was.

She tried again.. ``You said you ain`t had no money but now you taking a cab....`` and then she said most of the same things that were mentioned below...that she was hungry, homeless, please give her money etc.  I again said I was sorry but I wasn`t going to give her money. She then  turned on a dime and became vicious and threatening. She pushed me, she said I was a bitch, that she wasn`t going to let me get in a cab until I gave her some money. 

A second later a cab pulled up and she blocked the door. When I asked her to move she said no.  When the cab driver got out of the car to try to help, she used the opportunity to try to punch me in the face. She was pretty out of it so I  was easily able to push her away and she only grazed my cheek.  Mr Abeje and another young man came running out of Windows.  It seemed the young man knew the woman and yelled at her in a familiar way asking what the hell she was doing and  if she had lost her mind.  This seemed to shame or startle her out of her crazy rage for a minute. I took the opportunity to jump in the cab and we drove away. 

Later that night I asked a neighbor who has lived in Bloomingdale forever if he knew who this lady was? He said that her sister used to live on first street near Bates but that sister had died a little while ago and that she`s a crack addict.   Dear Neighbors...Be for-warned...give this sad soul a wide berth and keep 911 on speed dial.

new ZipCar location in Channing St NW alley

From a Channing Street NW household:

It looks like Zip Car has struck a deal with one of the homeowners on the unit block of Channing St NW. There is a new parking spot in the alley. It seems that they have shifted their business model to private homes. Only, none of the neighbors were consulted before the location was put in and it isn`t clear whether they need a permit to run a business out of the alley in a residential area. We are not crazy about strangers from outside of Bloomingdale wandering our alley to find a Zip Car. It would have been nice to know how much foot traffic to expect and how the company is going to contribute to keeping the alley clean and safe. Does have experience with Zip Car setting up shop on their block?

Chuck Brown's "Block Party" video filmed at Flagler & W NW

See this message from an Adams Street NW resident:
                         
OMG! This YouTube video of the late Chuck Brown is in front of Flagler Market and pans to surrounding homes. Do you know when it was filmed?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLbD9muht7w&feature=related

more Prince of Petworth: ? Spanish tapas coming to 1837 1st St NW; American pub coming to 1822 1st St NW ?

See this post from the Prince of Petworth, who keeps us informed.  Thanks again, PoP!

Bloomingdale Scuttlebutt: Spanish Tapas Restaurant and an American Pub Coming Soon?

Big scuttlebutt for Bloomingdale this morning. I hear that two long term vacant spaces have finally been leased. The first one is the yellow building right next to Rustik at 1837 1st St, NW – I hear a Spanish Tapas restaurant will be coming into that space. 

Perhaps more exciting is the scuttlebutt for the big yellow building at the corner of 1st and Seaton St, NW (1822 1st St, NW) that has long had massive potential. Well, I’m hearing it has finally been leased and an American Pub is on the way. It’s been tough to find out specifics but if either of these properties have finally been leased, it’ll be great news 
                   
Oh yeah, I’m also hearing another restaurant is looking at a nearby space as well. Stay tuned…

Prince of Petworth: 9th Annual Bloomingdale Community Day & Yard Sale in Crispus Attucks Park

Yippee!  Prince of Petworth is promoting tomorrow's community day and yard sale event in Crispus Attucks Park.  Thanks, Pop!

The 5pm Post – The 9th Annual Bloomingdale Community Day and Yard Sale Event featuring the first ever Taste of Bloomingdale this Sat.

From an email:

Saturday May 19th-8am-2pm
    
The 9th Annual Bloomingdale Community Day and Yard Sale Event featuring the first ever Taste of Bloomingdale. [Alley entrance 1st and U St, NW]
                   
This is the largest fundraiser for Crispus Attucks Park. All proceeds raised at this event help pay for the park’s $10,000 a year maintenance upkeep bill. The governing body, Crispus Attucks Development Corp. (CADC) and its network of volunteers and supporters welcome you to the park.
                         
We’re serving up a mess of goodies this year:
*sample delicious treats from neighborhood restaurants at the Taste of Bloomingdale
*shop for second-hand gems at the yard sale
*learn about neighborhood organizations and businesses at Community Row
         
Make new friends, meet your neighbors and enjoy Spring in Bloomingdale!

Bloomingdale Community Day & Yard Sale - tomorrow, Saturday, 5-19-2012

9th Annual Community Day and Yard Sale in Crispus Attucks Park

Featuring the First Ever Taste of Bloomingdale!

Saturday, May 19, 2012
8 AM to 2 PM
(rain date: June 2, 2012)
Alley entrance at 1st & U Street NW

Want to sell your stuff at the sale? -- Spaces still may be available.
Want to donate your stuff for us to sell?  Find out how: 703 then 973 then 5733 or tynesia27 @ aol.com or visit www.crispusattuckspark.org

Want to see the "Taste" participants, the sponsors and community partners? Then check out the event flyer here !