JDLand shared details on the news steps for the CSX Virginia Avenue Tunnel Project. No start date yet but this is sure to be quite the disruption… District Source shared details of the proposed development on the 1300 block of Pennsylvania, SE that would put 10 new residential units above La Lomita. Frozen Tropics reported that […]
I have written multiple times about schools on Capitol Hill, but there’s an important one that I have thus far missed. It’s an important piece of a tour I will be giving in April, as part of their Emancipation Day celebration. The first public school in the District of Columbia opened in 1806, next to the […]
A familiar scene of the greater Capitol Hill neighborhood may soon be no more. As first reported by JDLand, the Navy is indicating plans to scrap the ex-USS Barry. The Commanding Officer of Naval Support Activity Washington, Capt. Monte Ulmer sent a letter to interested stakeholders in which he noted Barry’s “hull is in poor condition and […]
All this week, Kojo Nnamdi is broadcasting from the Folger Theater. In partnership with Roll Call, WAMU’s Metro Connection, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Kojo is covering the political Capitol Hill as well as our neighborhood. As described by the website, For a full week we’ll be broadcasting from the Folger, where one entrance faces Congress, […]
In some unsettling crime news, The Washington Post reported that a Hill family had two cars stolen within 24 hours. District Source and Urban Turf shared the revised plans for a new residential development proposed near Union Market. According to Hill Now, Capitol Hill is a top location for new parents. Urban Turf shared the designs for […]