From a reader:
“Any idea what’s on fire downtown near McPherson Square? Our whole building smells like it’s on fire but we can’t seem to find the source!”
Anyone know what’s going on? If someone snaps a photo send to princeofpetworth (at) gmail (dot) com. Thanks!
Loeb’s Deli is located at 832 15th Street, NW. I have a former colleague who swore by this place. As we are often discussing where we can get the best sandwiches I thougth Loeb’s was worth discussing, especially for those that work downtown. Personally, I’m super curious about the pastrami sandwiches, I’m always on the look out for some good pastrami. So any fans? Any specialties? And what always tips me off to good delis, do they have Dr. Browns soda? (Any Dr. Browns Celery fans out there?)
From left to right: Gabe Klein, Director of DDOT; David Alpert of Greater Greater Washington; and Stewart Schwartz, Executive Director of the Coalition for Smarter Growth
It was standing room only last Thursday evening in David Alpert’s Dupont Circle rowhouse. The Greater Greater Washington blogger, jointly with the DC-based Coalition for Smarter Growth, was hosting an evening with Gabe Klein, the new director of the District Department of Transportation. The crowd was a mix of students, local transit and urban planning activists, and interested third parties. But everyone in attendance had one thing in common – to them, Gabe Klein was a star.
Before his appointment to DDOT in December 2008, Klein was the entrepreneur famous for helping start On the Fly, the company that has dispatched its seemingly ubiquitous food vending, eco-friendly smart karts across DC. Before that, he was the local regional vice president of Zipcar, which has helped reduce DC’s dependence on non-transit transportation. He was also previously the operations director for Bikes USA. Klein was already well-known in the transportation and business communities for his environmental and transit efforts, so when Mayor Fenty announced his intent to appoint Klein to DDOT, it signaled a major commitment to moving DC’s transit initiatives toward new transportation solutions.
Klein’s vision is to turn DC into a leader in the field of alternative transportation—public bike systems, ride sharing, etc—and eventually convince people to think of alternative transportation as standard transportation. He’s certainly got no shortage of ideas. A strong proponent of DC’s Bicycle Program, he wants to expand access to public bikes throughout the city. He also mentioned a new initiative to partner with Metro, Pepco, and automobile companies to lay infrastructure for electric cars along with new SmartBike locations. Klein didn’t provide many details about the program, but if successful, DC would become one of the nation’s earliest adopters of this type of electrification. Continues after the jump (more…)
Ed. Note: If Missy Frederick can confirm this there is a free t-shirt in it for her.
A PoP reader attended a fundraiser this week for a prominent Democrat in Congress. The event was catered by Alchemy Catering…a catering service operated by Carla Hall who was a contestant on “Top Chef”. She’s lived in the DC area for a long time.
The reader was able to chat with her for about 15 minutes and mentioned that he lives in Columbia Heights. Ms. Hall mentioned that she visited the neighborhood a couple days ago looking at an empty space in the Highland Park building. Apparently, Ms. Hall is looking for a new space where she can have a cooking school of sorts, along with a dining room somehow associated with cooking classes. The format seemed uncertain, but the general description made the reader think of the new cooking class/wine tasting space that Zola opened at the corner of 9th and E Streets, NW.
This is beyond ridiculous. Isn’t everyone on twitter and facebook now…
I know there are lots of bike supporters out there so I thought this might be of interest. A buddy of mine who is an avid biker was trying to getting his bike fixed but there were huge lines at all of his usual stomping grounds. He had heard that there was a spot somewhere on 14th Street that fixes bikes. And indeed there is – Rollin Cycles located at 1320 14th Street, NW. They have bike sales, repairs, and rentals. He says that there is a lot less attitude here than at other spots. And of course you can rent a movie while you’re there!
You can tell that the building behind that huge billboard is super cool. What a shame and a bit ironic, yeah?
You gotta be kidding me. I think this might be worse than the Celsius…
Man, they pulled out all the stops on this one.
Sometimes the industrial look is pretty cool.