1501 3rd St NW Price: $245,000 Beds: 4 Baths: 2 Sq. Ft.: – Lot Size: 1,417 Sq. Ft. Property Type: Attach/Row House, End Style: Colonial Year Built: 1906 Stories: 3 Year Built: 1906 This is the first time this GIANT end unit has a record of coming on the market. Lots of potential! 4 bedrooms … More Some houses for sale
From Scott’s Bloomingdale listserv: Gage-Eckington School in LeDroit Park to Become Community Park Capital Community News The Gage-Eckington Elementary School in LeDroit Park is about to become a neighborhood park. Mayor Adrian Fenty and Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham recently announced the start of construction of a community park on the site once the school … More Ledroit Park park to open in June 2010
Sep 04, 2009 | By: Lou Chibbaro Jr. About 250 people gathered amid raindrops in Northwest D.C. last week to remember a 21-year-old transgender woman who was stabbed to death as she and a friend were walking to the offices of a transgender services organization. Read the rest of the Washington Blade story.
Read’s Mari’s posting on the issue of neighborhood names that revisits the hot topic Bill posted about on this blog a few months ago: What’s in a Name. What’s in a name? I’ll probably get back to my regular blogging after Labor Day. But I wanted to start blogging about a topic I keep coming … More In Shaw revisits the neighborhood name issue
The blog got an email from a journalist looking to profile the neighborhood. If anyone would like to talk to him, please send him or me an email. Otherwise, please comment below on your “perceptions of Truxton Circle.” Thanks! Caryn Begin forwarded message: From: Dean Smith <deansmi@gmail.com> Date: September 4, 2009 11:31:56 PM EDT Subject: … More Examiner wants comments on our neighborhood
From a Bates Area resident: I live on Bates and follow this blog regularly. My husband and I got home tonight and noticed the police van on the corner of Bates & 1st. We wondered what’s going on so we talked to our next door neighbor. We found out that another neighbor was mugged on … More Taking care of our Neighbors – Mugging on Bates
Your moderator has noticed news about libraries cropping up all around us. So I thought I’d do a round up of where we can go to expand our literary passions: Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Neighborhood Library (Interim Library) 945 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001 Phone: 202-671-0265 Hours of Operation Mon: 1:00-9:00 Tue: 9:30-5:30 Wed: … More Libraries all around
This looks like a cool opportunity: The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education is pleased to announce the launch of two new adult evening training programs beginning this September in partnership with the DC Students Construction Trades Foundation, the Washington Hospitality Foundation, and the Workforce Development Program of the DC Community College. The Hospitality … More FREE Adult Job Training Programs
Despite concerns against having the the Latin America Youth Center run programs out of the John F. Cook School at 30 P St. NW, it appears the city has given $1.74 million to LAYC for the school’s renovation. ANC5c02 Commissioner Sylvia Pinkney has gathered hundreds of signatures against LAYC at Cook. Bates Area and Hanover … More City ignores concern over Cook
See this message from Eckginton resident and former ANC Commissioner Kris Hammond: It appears that the North Capitol Street corridor– Truxton Circle/Hanover/Bates, Bloomingdale, Eckington –is getting another raw deal with the D.C. government’s award of the J.F. Cooke School site (30 P St., N.W.) to the Latin American Youth Center. It’s time to demand some … More Another opinion on LAYC at Cook
Bates Area Civic Association 