Posts Tagged ‘Petworth’

Where We Live: Petworth

‘1304 Monroe Street NW’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
Welcome to this week’s Where We Live!  So far, this feature has taken us to every quadrant of the District, and soon, we’ll be expanding to include Maryland and Virginia suburbs.  But first, let’s look at a DC neighborhood that has a real sense of community: Petworth. [...]

Amen, Ezra

‘Tree Death in DC’
courtesy of ‘Wayan Vota’
It won’t win him any points with Remy but it’s raised him up in my estimation. During his Post chat today, Ezra “all health care all the time” Klein fielded a question outside his normal beat: where to live in the area.
Adam – Zurich, Switzerland: A bit off topic, [...]

Is Petworth the Next U Street? Marvin Owners Think So…

‘Metro art’
courtesy of ‘voteprime’
Get used to this metro station, folks, because we’re thinkin’ you’re going to be heading to it quite a lot in the future. The rumors that have been circulating for months about the potential of a new restaurant/bar owned by the folks who brought us Marvin and The Gibson at 14th and [...]

A wrapper will fall. A hero will rise.

‘hope and hopelessness’
courtesy of ‘erin m’
Eric’s speech for being the law and order candidate needs some fine tuning.
Even though many of my neighbors suspect that the loiterers who congregate on that corner are attempting to buy or sell drugs, newborn puppies, or sex, I know the truth. People travel to the corner of 3rd and [...]

Park View Station My Ass

Greater Greater Washington has an interesting idea gone all wrong. They’ve thought to rename Metro stations to be shorter and more logical. On the whole, I’d love the concept, as names like “U Street/African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo” are a run-on joke. But GGW better watch what it suggests.
To think that the Metro [...]

We Love Georgia Avenue

 
Georgia Avenue gets a lot of grief. Some of it deserved, some of it not. Personally, I find it to be a mixed bag. You have the amazing Moroni Brothers Pizza next to greasy carry outs. But times are changing.
To help with that change, Price of Petworth has started a PoPtrekker [...]

Neighborhood Snow Plow Check

Photo by Wayan
While DC has been quite efficient in plowing the main roads, I had no trouble driving to the White House at 8am, what’s the situation in your neighbourhood? Especially now that most folks need to commute to work.
Here in Petworth, New Hampshire Avenue and Upshur Street NW are both passable, if a [...]

Better at love than poop scooping

‘It’s a Puppy!’
courtesy of ‘A. Davey’
Petworth’s Eric Nuzum has a nice story about neighbors and dog owners showing support and solidarity. They may not be good poop scoopers (maybe it’s just the pitbull owner and his buddies?) but they know how to show each other love and support.
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Thirteen (13!) Pounds of Dog Poo in Petworth

Up in Petworth, we do love our pets – its in our name. But it seems that quite a few Petworthians don’t like being responsible with their dogs. Specifically their dog’s poop. Out in Grant Circle, a prime dog walking spot, I noticed that winter brought on irresponsibility towards scooping the poop. [...]

Petworth People: Scoop Your Poop!

I just picked up seven pounds of frozen dog feces in Grant Circle and I’m disgusted. Not (yet) with the stench of all that crap when the spring thaw happens, but with the laziness of my neighbourhood’s dog owners.
How hard is it to pick up your pooch’s poop?
You already have too many plastic shopping [...]

Church Bell Permitting Process

This weekend in Petworth, the neighborhood was serenaded by the church bells from St. Gabriel’s Roman Catholic Church.  While I do enjoy the music I am surprised at the sound.  The church has just started ringing its bells with regularity and I wonder:
Is there a church bell permitting process?
Like can a church just start ringing [...]

Petworth Dog Walk Halloween Photos

Photo by Wayan
Last night’s Petworth Dog Walk Halloween was such great fun!
Around twenty costumed canines, and a few costumed owners, came out to Domku Restaurant to compete for prizes in three categories:

Best Costume
Best Trick
Best Twin

Here we have the Petworth MPD – Metro Police Dog, winner of Best Costume and over on Flickr we have more [...]

Verizon’s Community Hazard

Why is this child playing with a Verizon telephone line box? How come this electrical thing is still hanging at street level in my neighbourhood? How long does it take Verizon to fix what has become a community hazard?
Multiple calls to the company have gone unheeded. Stopping Verizon workers in the neighborhood does [...]

Petworth Dog Walk Halloween

Yoda Dog Costume, courtesy of matthamm
Those of us on the Petworth Dogs listserv would like to invite all our neighbours to the:
Petworth Dog Walk Halloween (flier)
a costume celebration of dogs and owners
Wednesday, October 29, 7pm @ Domku
Contestants – meet at the Clark School @ 6:30pm (7th and Alison) to wear out your favorite pooch, before [...]

Not a Good Sign in Petworth

Photo by Wayan
A for sale sign does not bother me. A foreclosure sign insight some worry. But its the tall grass of household abandonment that generates concern for my neighbourhood.
In this market where people are talking about 10% of borrowers behind or in default, I expect some pain all around, yet when pain becomes neglect [...]

Petworth Eyesore Update

I have an update on the visual pollution at Upshur and New Hampshire NW, the Petworth Eyesore, where a builder is trying to make what was once a shell into several apartments.
After he tore off the porch, the recent rains have flooded the basement. And even though there are a few glassless windows, someone [...]

Fort Slocum: Hidden DC Treasure

Here’s an oasis of green you don’t see often in the middle of a city: Fort Slocum Park, where a cool urban forest abuts the row houses of Northwest DC.
Nestled in northern Petworth, you’ll first notice Fort Slocum by the green hill you see on Kansas Avenue NW, the only remnant of the Civil War [...]

A Schooling for The House

The E.L. Haynes Public Charter School at 3600 Georgia Avenue NW, currently serves Pre-K to 5th grade students in the Petworth neighborhood. They hope to add a grade each year until they are serving students through grade twelve.
From this angle, you can see their new five-story school soaring over the existing Georgia Avenue [...]

Why I Love DC: Wayan

Photo by mosley.brian
After five hours crammed into this seat on a red-eye from San Francisco, I can tell by the shift in the plane, that we’ve started our decent into IAD. Its another bi-coastal BBQ week for me, and I can’t wait to be home.
Home, where the South Asian driver of the Washington Flyer [...]

DC Neighbourhoods Ablaze!

Photo by Wayan
Washington DC has its official fireworks on the Mall, but forgive me I find them insignificant. For me, the formal symphony + lightshow is a distant second, if even ranked, when compared with the neighbourhood effort.
And that would be every neighbourhood in this city – from Congress Heights to Foggy Bottom, Park [...]