Karen Ramsey has been a DC area resident off and on since 1994 and is currently a denizen of Trinidad neighborhood. There is now a white painted bicycle at the intersection of H Street and 3rd Street NE. The evening of June 23, 2018, Malik Habib was killed there after a charter bus driver struck […]
We had almost a month of no rain, but now it hasn’t really stopped deluging. How are you holding up, Capitol Hill and environs? Hope your basements aren’t getting flooded because what a nightmare that is. Ok. Let’s catch up, shall we? After welcoming Sephora with open arms/wallets a couple of weeks ago (don’t judge […]
In researching these pieces, there are a few sources to which I keep coming back. One of the oldest of these is a map drawn and printed in 1857, almost certainly the oldest of these sources. Today, I will look a little at this map and the man who made it. Albert Boschke (pictured) was […]
That was fun! This whole past week has been a sports whirlwind for our little part of the world. And I was especially proud to see so many DC actors used in the intro bit to the All-Star game. Bursting with so much local pride. The inside of Bryce Harper’s jacket? Gah! It’s all too […]
Pedestrian and bike casualties have increased in the District over the past two years, according to data in a recent Washington Post article. Incidentally, Vision Zero also started campaigning for safer streets two years ago. It appears that Vision Zero is just not a very successful program, at least in the biker and pedestrian deaths metric. The […]