The recent spate of carjackings, many occurring in PSA 103 between 12th and 14th Streets, NE, and E and F Streets, NE, have started to alarm Hill residents who think this is more of an epidemic than a run of bad luck. The incidents have also disturbed some parents of young children as some of […]
The next school in our installment came upon it’s name through a somewhat circuitous route. Built in 1879, Peabody Elementary was named to honor George Peabody, an early American financier and noted philanthropist. Peabody made a sizable fortune working with the father of J.P. Morgan, issuing securities and other instruments backing the explosion of railroads […]
December has begun with the usual rash of auto thefts and shoplifting in MPD-1; and sadly, teen violence seems to be continuing on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, a group of about six teens, suspected to be students, assaulted a man at 6th and G Streets, NE, and knocking him to the ground in an attempt to rummage […]
Continuing our series of “How the Schools of Capitol Hill Got Their Name,” I’ll follow up on fellow tour guide and Hill dad Tim Krepp’s recent article with a discussion of my son’s school, Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School. Zachary Taylor is a no-brainer– Old Rough and Ready, Mexican-American War hero and 12th President of the United […]
This week’s column is, in a way, poorly named, as it concerns itself not with something lost from Capitol Hill, but rather, something that never was built in the first place. Nonetheless, it gives me a chance to look back on L’Enfant’s plan of Washington once again, and this opportunity is one that I will […]