When researching Hill history, I often come across names for geographical features that are no longer in use, such as Garrison Street or Navy Yard Hill or Carroll’s Spring Today, I’ll look at a more sinister name once belonging to a landmark which – like Carroll’s Spring– no longer exists. The Anacostia River today is fairly benign, swinging […]
Yesterday at around 4:40 p.m., a local woman traveling eastbound on E Street SE collided at the intersection of 12th and E with a Mercedes-Benz SUV traveling south on 12th Street SE. The cyclist was severely injured and was taken to a local hospital. At the time she was admitted, she was in critical condition. […]
RFK Memorial Project Launches As Anchor For Stadium Site (DCist) Sales Underway for Luxury Buchanan Park Townhomes on Capitol Hill (Urban Turf) On Anniversary of Charnice Milton’s Death, a Bullet Hole Still Marks Where She Was Killed (Washington City Paper) Slipstream Now Open at New Jersey and I (JDLand) Sewage Spills in Capitol Hill Montessori […]
Last week, The Washington Post reported that 25 lawsuits against WMATA and the District of Columbia relating to the 2015 L’Enfant tunnel incident have been dismissed and no one knows why. According to The Washington Post, a lawyer representing several of the plaintiffs says he can’t explain why the cases were dismissed. WMATA and District […]
To those (assumedly exceedingly small number of people) actually reading THIH today, I say, Welcome to beginning of summer! With it being Memorial Day and all, today’s column will be a rerun. This rerun is actually appropriate for the day, as it concerns a Capitol Hill resident’s work building the amphitheater at Arlington Cemetery, site […]