I thought this was a super cool shot from Wayan Vota who titled the shot, “Telling Time in a Graveyard”. This is from the Rock Creek Church cemetery. This cemetery was featured in the first PoPtrekker.
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This home is located at 425 Irving Street, NW:
The flier says:
“3 levels of fully finished space, completely renovated from top to bottom and nothing spared as part of this spacious and spectacular renovation. Hardwood floors throughout, a spectacular kitchen with an amazing backyard for all those great Summer parties coming up. From here you have amazing Metro & bus access to around the city. Park the car and kick up your feet!Open House 4/19/09 1-5pm”
More info and a virtual tour found here and the home’s Web site found here.
I’m always curious to hear what you guys think of complete renovations. Does $445,000 sound reasonable?
You can talk about whatever is on your mind – quality of life issues, a beautiful tree you spotted, scuttlebutt, or any random questions/thoughts you may have. I’ll open this thread every Monday and Friday. Anything good happen this week?
In real life, hipchickindc is licensed as a real estate broker in the District of Columbia and Virginia, and as a real estate salesperson in Maryland. Unless specifically noted, neither she nor the company that she is affiliated with represented any of the parties or were directly involved in the transaction reported below. Unless otherwise noted, the source of information is Metropolitan Regional Information Systems (MRIS), which is the local multiple listing system. Information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
Featured Property: 3307 Macomb St NW
Original List Price: $2,695,000.
List Price at Contract: $2,590,000.
List Date: 11/10/2008
Days on Market: 133
Settled Sales Price: $2,407,000.
Settlement Date: 04/14/2009
Seller Subsidy: 0
Bank Owned?: No
Type Of Financing: Ha! CASH.
Listing History: Last purchased in 1999 for $1,025,000. but see below for more history.
Original GDoN Post is: Here.
Virtual Tour: Here.
Funny how nobody bothered to mention their concerns about crime in this neighborhood in the original “Good Deal or Not” (GDoN) post. I think that may be a first.
I wish I could tell you who showed up and paid cash for this property, but it hasn’t hit the tax records yet and despite some ambitious googling, I was unable to find any relevant gossip.
My favorite tidbit on this one? Back in 1998, it was on the market for $375,000., went under contract within 3 days, and settled for $350,000. It was in bad shape, but some smarty pants builder fixed it up and sold it the following year for seven figures. Here’s the 1998 listing.
photo by David Farrant
It is clear from a previous discussion that street harassment is a real problem in DC. For obvious reasons, I’m sure it becomes worse in the warmer months. While I definitely advocate self defense classes, I thought for street harassment the best thing to do was to simply walk away, or nod and walk away with your head held high. I guess I’m wondering if folks feel that a self defense class is useful for dealing with catcalls? The class below mentions “prevention”. Sadly, from the stories I’ve heard, it seems impossible to prevent harassment. For those who have dealt with street harassment, would you feel more comfortable dealing with the situation after taking a self defense class?
“Dear PoP,
Thought your reader might be interested.
Get ready for Spring: Dealing with street harassment
With Spring, unfortunately, comes a huge increase in street harassment. Get ready for Spring by expanding your skills for dealing with the “hey babys” that may come your way.
Can you “ignore” street harassment? Of course you can. And you already know how to do that. This class will give you other options, making ignoring it only one in a range of skills to choose from, especially when ignoring it doesn’t seem safe.
The class will cover the range of self defense skills–prevention and awareness, verbal self defense, and physical techniques-that you might need in dealing with street harassment. Most of these skills can also be transferred to other irritating or dangerous situations in the rest of life.
* Saturday, April 18, 1-4 pm
* For women and teen girls ages 16+
* In NW DC near Howard University, Georgia Ave., and the Green Line
* $44.Register with a friend or family member and get $5 off each
This is probably the coolest thing I could have ever imagined.
“Dear PoP,
I am writing to invite you and your readers to a unique theatrical event partially inspired by your blog. I work for Young Playwrights’ Theater and meet with young people often to write about the things that inspire and trouble them. This semester our after-school group, the Young Playwrights’ Workshop has been writing about the intersection of technology and theater. How will technology change in the future? How is it changing the present?
On March 2nd, 2009 I read your post New Apartments At Georgia Ave. and New Hampshire Gets Tagged And I Get Intimidated By Street Thugs and the resulting comments with great interest. It occurred to me that it could be a good topic for our group. All good drama needs conflict and there was plenty to be had in this discussion. Also, while the habits and character of young people in our community were discussed at length, there were not many youth voices in the discussion. Our young writers decided to respond. They created a piece called “Who Owns the Streets?” in which they deconstruct your article, the commenters and the meaning of community online.
“Who Owns the Streets?” will be presented this Monday, April 20th at 7:00 PM as part of New Writers Now: Theater of the Next Generation. Professional actors will present a staged reading of the piece and follow up with a community talkback. We invite you, your readers and the entire DC community to attend. You could even join us at 6:00 PM for a light reception before the show in the lobby of the GALA Theatre. The event is FREE and open to the public.
We hope that you and many of your readers might take us up on this invitation.
More information can be found at www.yptdc.org
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Andrews
Community Engagement Manager
Young Playwrights’ Theater
I’ve gotten a number of press releases about the immenent opening of the Allegro at 3460 14th Street N.W. It’s so nice to have this strip of 14th Street opened up again. And it looks like the building came out pretty good. I’ll be getting a sneak peak of the apartments inside so stay tuned for those photos. In the meantime, enjoy the open road! They reopened the bike lane:
And as we learned back in the beginning of February Thaitanic II will be opening up.
You can see all the entries here. There weren’t a ton of entries this week, yet this one of the hardest times I’ve had picking a winner. I have to go with Fellow Petworthian:
“Yo! Dem cherry blossoms got nothin’ on me! I roll on one-sevens, boyeeeeee!”
Runner up is Pennywise:
“Teach a man to steal a hubcaps, and he has a hubcap for a day. Teach a man to grow hubcaps, and you give him hubcaps forever.”
Som Records (14th and T) does it again.