A key goal of the 11th Street Bridge Park, a project of the Ward 8 based non-profit Building Bridges Across the River at THEARC, is to serve as an anchor for economic growth. While the Bridge Park’s design strategies will increase connectivity and interaction between those living on both sides of the Anacostia River, more […]
Highlights from September ANC Meetings: ANC 6A: Kitty’s Saloon got the ANC’s support for a summer garden; neighbors on Wylie Street are interested in creating a historic district; and city plans to alter the landscaping in the triangle park bounded by 15th Street, Constitution Avenue; and North Carolina Avenue NE were met with skepticism. Neighbors on a NE […]
Interviews are an important part of the reporter’s tool-kit, whether to be published as a stand-alone piece, or to simply to gather information and quotes for an article. This art form is, however, not all that old–less than 200 years. The first practitioner was Anne Royall, who developed it out of necessity when she found […]
The saga of “What to do with RFK?” should be a straightforward one: get input from neighbors first, and then from the city at large to insure that those who will benefit or be most affected by what is likely to be years of construction and inconvenience to the neighborhood’s easternmost boundaries have been heard. […]