Ten years and one day ago, Kate McFadden put up a post about PeterBug Matthews and, with the help of a few fellow out-of-work neighbors, started the labor of love that you know as The Hill is Home. Thank you to those of you who’ve already sent birthday wishes our way. Stay tuned, because we […]
It’s raining! It’s sunny! It’s storming! It must be mid-May. What’s going on around the neighborhood? You’re not going to believe this, but The Hill is Home celebrates TEN YEARS on May 20, which is now D.C. NATIVES DAY! It’s like we planned it or something. WUSA-9 Capitol Riverside Youth Sports Park (CRYSP) will manage […]
Gordon Chaffinis a freelance journalist who focuses on infrastructure and traffic news and insights for Street Justice. You can support independent journalism by subscribing to Gordon’s StreetJustice newsletter: He’s offering a 20% discount to THIH readers. See more information below. –Maria Helena Carey K Street NW Getting Road Diet 2020-21 This week at ANC 6E (Shaw/Mount Vernon Square), DDOT officials presented conceptual designs for a road diet on K Street NW. Staff outlined previous studies pointing to the […]
Last week, I introduced Robert W. Smiley’s book on the nightlife of 1894 Washington D.C. While the examples I quoted are far from the kind of dirt I am sure those who purchased the guide back then were looking for, as the work progresses, it does live up to its name. On page 39, Smiley […]
Here at The Hill is Home, we have become amateur urban planners by dint of self-preservation. Once you start walking more, using more public transit and driving less, you start to realize that streets and entire cities need to be planned better. The streets belong to the pedestrian, the cyclist, the scooterer, and to anyone […]