Archive for the ‘Foggy Bottom’ Category
D.C.’s Big Beer Ban
Participation Lager… Originally uploaded by dharmabumx Well folks, it seems, much like the application of parking rates, D.C.’s leadership have painted with a large brush in order to solve a detailed problem. On February 9th, the D.C. Council enacted, at the behest of of several ANC members, a ban on the sale of single bottles [...]
More »We Love Drinks: 51st State Tavern
When I worked in Foggy Bottom, I found it practically impossible to find a bar in Foggy Bottom proper that wasn’t overrun with George Washington and Georgetown students. Too bad I didn’t find The 51st State Tavern until now, because it’s the answer to my happy hour prayers. Situated in a two story former row [...]
More »Rock Creek Parkway Crash
Vehicular crash on Rock Creek Parkway at Virginia Ave NW, down near the Watergate. Emergency responders are on the scene; looks like at least one person was injured enough to need rolling-away on a gurney. Fortunately GWU Hospital is right around the corner. The intersection is blocked so you can’t turn onto Virginia Ave NW [...]
More »Metro Zamboni Strikes Again
The Metro Zamboni is back, this time at Foggy Bottom! This isn’t quite as crowded a platform as before, and at a slightly later hour, but while it’s not entirely clear in this fuzzy mobile video, he does plow straight towards a crowd of tourists standing by the escalator. I’m surprised these cleaners haven’t pushed [...]
More »MPD Divers in the Potomac
What was up with those MPD scuba divers in the Potomac just off Washington Harbour this morning? Did someone throw evidence into the river? Or was someone sent to sleep with the snakeheads in cement shoes? In any case, thanks to the officers for letting me go pseudo-paparazzi on the diving action this morning and [...]
More »The Eternally Receding Horizon of Metro Escalator Repair Deadlines
I don’t even remember what date WMATA originally put on the repair notice when they closed the middle escalator of Foggy Bottom back in summer. I just knew that there was a 100% chance of them changing that date as soon as it came close. Sure enough, they changed it to Nov 29th. And when [...]
More »Foggy Bottom Metro Line
I post about this altogether too much, but here we go again: epic lines to enter the Foggy Bottom Metro Station because of a rush hour escalator bottleneck. Of three escalators, one is closed for repairs till Nov 29th, one seems to be up-only, and the remaining nonworking one is split between down and up [...]
More »Fill out your Metro survey!
I was on my way home on Friday and I received a very exciting piece of paper at foggy bottom! The 2008 METRO SURVEY! . Now I know this is so incredibly, shamelessly, totally geeky, but I love surveys. I think it stems from my background in PR, I just love collecting and understanding market [...]
More »Metro Arrest
This was the scene at Foggy Bottom Metro this afternoon as Metro Transit Police personnel pulled a guy from an Orange Line Vienna/Fairfax train and detained him, for what offense I do not know: Larger video here. The suspect appeared to be asleep when I first saw him, but awoke with some poking from an [...]
More »Take a Walk!
DC WWI Memorial – Fire Sky – 9-13-08 by brian.moseley As Max pointed out, there are some kickass walking tours this weekend as part of WalkingTown DC which runs all weekend. Free walking and biking tours, lead by the city’s amazing guides, run on both Saturday and Sunday. I’ve put the details for a few [...]
More »And GWU is Going Deeper Still
Photo by Wayan Remember the construction-related blasting of July that shook the Foggy Bottom area? It seems the contractors digging the foundation for the new GWU building are still going deeper. While a shortcut to China is still far off, there drill rigs say more china will rattle in the near future. Here is thanks [...]
More »Metro Sandbags for Hanna
WaPo’s Get There blog reports on WMATA’s preparations for the storm tomorrow, including sandbags around vent shafts over stations at high risk for flooding. Here are a few such sandbags outside Foggy Bottom Station: Tomorrow is looking like a good day to stay in if you can. Got your bread and milk handy? Be the [...]
More »Foggy Bottom Metro Escalator Alert
It never ends. It only gets lulzier! We are in receipt of the following alert from alert.ema.dc.gov: Transportation Incident. Disruption at Foggy Bottom-GWU. (All of the station’s entrance escalators are out of service due to mechanical difficulties. Shuttle bus service has been established. The station’s elevator is operational, the station remains open). We already knew [...]
More »Metro Escalator Update – Foggy Bottom and Capitol South
Quick update on the Foggy Bottom Metro escalators: Friday’s mess was the result of a passenger’s footwear getting stuck on the middle escalator that afternoon, closing it down in addition to the already-under-repair first escalator, so that only one escalator was left open to serve as stairs. As of today, two escalators are open but [...]
More »Foggy Bottom Metro Escalator Mess: AGAIN
Foggy Bottom Metro escalators have done it again, this time at the height of the Friday afternoon rush, and I have once again gotten video of the mess: Last time this happened, only one escalator was barricaded, so desperate riders could at least scamper up the opposing escalator. Today, two were blocked, so only one [...]
More »Killing Trees at GWU
For being a university, I’m often surprised at how callous George Washington University can be to its Foggy Bottom neighbourhood. Just check out its most recent transgression. In building the mixed-use commercial space on “Square 54“, all the trees along the massive construction site, have been cut down. A 23rd Street clear-cut. And its not [...]
More »Foggy Bottom Yard Sale
I stopped by this little yard sale in Foggy Bottom this morning to chat with the lady of the house and give her terrier a pat. (833 New Hampshire Ave NW if you want to check it out) She has one every year to clear out junk, and there was extra cool stuff this time [...]
More »Foggy Bottom Metro Escalator Mess
Big mess at Foggy Bottom this morning. Watch this video: Foggy Bottom is the singularly worst-designed Metro station I’ve used in the system: only one exit, twin escalators going up together from platform to mezzanine, and just a single escalator going down to the platform, no stairs, traffic bottlenecks all over the place. The situation [...]
More »Was This a Diner Once?
On the ground floor of GWU HOVA there is this checkerboard-tiled establishment which sits sadly empty and unused. It looks like it might have once been a 1950s diner; could some enterprising restaurant management grad make it one again? Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »Press Button, Receive Mud
It’s usually pretty simple to get across Rock Creek Parkway when walking between Washington Harbour and Foggy Bottom near the Watergate (map) — the button to get a WALK light is actually responsive, and vehicular traffic at that particular location is unusually generous to pedestrians for a DC intersection. But when it rains, then comes [...]
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