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
As our neighborhood continues to diversify, we need time to get to know our neighbors; something I have loved about living here for over 6 years now. I am willing to host a monthly happy hour for all our gay and lesbian neighbors in our neighborhood to meet, but to also work on the DC … More Calling all Friends of Dorothy.
Well, fall is quickly approaching and time to bring out the winter coats soon. Before this happens, it would be nice to have some extra space and extra cash. I am interested in chatting with neighbors that may wish to have a joint, well organized yard sale. Steve’s Market at the corner of P and … More Community Yard Sale
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
Dear Neighbors, Rev. Miles Holloman, Chairperson of the BACA’s Youth Services Committee, asked me to share the information below with you. Miles and other neighbors have been organizing this event for the past several months and it deserves our support. Please stop by the park tomorrow to volunteer some time, if possible, or to just … More B-ball, Music, Food, Fun- Park at 1st/Florida Ave – Saturday
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
Bates Area Civic Association 