By now, we’ve all heard the news and seen the images. A four-alarm fire has destroyed Frager’s Hardware. As the community comes to terms with the loss of this iconic store, fundraising efforts to support Frager’s Hardware and its employees is underway. Friends of Frager’s Together, two not-for-profit organizations, Capitol Hill Community Foundation and Celebrate […]
Did you know that 30% of DC residents are living under the poverty line? So while you and I may worry about what to cook for dinner, there are neighbors who are worrying if they can afford dinner. United Way of the National Capital Area has launched the DoMore24 Campaign, an easy way to give […]
As part of our commitment to raise awareness about crime in our neighborhood, we are sharing the daily crime reports from MPD and posting them to a map. The following crimes were reported to have taken place around the broader Capitol Hill neighborhood (all of the 1st District and PSA 507 in the 5th District, which covers […]
WAMU‘s “Dive Bar” series featured the Lil Pub. JDLand shared pictures of Near Southeast circa the 1990s. The Washington Post followed Bill Schindler and a class of students from the Hill Center around the Hill as they looked for edible flowers in neighborhood weed patches.
In trawling about the Library of Congress’s picture collection, I came across another attempt to reimagine Capitol Hill. The changes being promulgated are truly radical and are worth looking at a little more closely – if only to hope that nothing of this nature is ever actually built.