“Dear PoPville,
Here’s the situation. I live in the Anthology — a Greystar managed building on H Street. On Wednesday we received an email from management with a “reminder” that bike storage is a paid amenity that costs $50 a month.
The problem is that bike storage has never been a paid amenity here. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
I live half a block from the Parade route. What is happening to Pride?
Every year my wife and I put Pride flags in front of every house that’s on our block. The neighbors like it and it’s become a part of the celebration.
This year passers by seem much more inclined to remove flags and/or simply throw them in the gutter. What is going on?”
Another reader wrote yesterday: (more…)
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“Dear PoPville,
Was wondering if I could survey the PoPville community for recs for a good personal accountant in the DC area? Looking for someone who can cover basic tax stuff but can also do a bit of advising on finances. For background, I’m single and under the age of 40 and work for the federal government—not too complicated.”
“Dear PoPville,
After installing Pride decorations outside their 3-unit row house, residents of 2014 13th Street NW (at 13th and U) received the following notice from EJF Rental Services LLC:
On Thu., May 29, 2025, at 5:15 PM, EJF Rentals wrote:
We hope you’re doing well and enjoying your home!
As part of our ongoing efforts to keep our community looking its best and to stay in line with property guidelines, we kindly ask that all flags, banners, and other personal items be removed from the property fence by June 1, 2025.
This request is just about (more…)
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“Dear PoPville,
I’m looking for recommendations for local charities doing excellent work in areas like poverty reduction, education, and violence reduction. I know a few, but I love hearing about good experiences from the local braintrust. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
DC Fire and EMS arrived on our block (across from Hechinger Mall in NE) on 5/25. They asked our neighbors across the street if there was a fire at their home, and when our neighbors confirmed everything was fine, DCFEMS went across the street and broke into our building by forcibly opening the front door. I wasn’t home at the time, but everyone else was and they all swear that no one knocked or rang the doorbell at the front for any unit. They just went and broke in, and told one of the residents that they had “the wrong address” (and they refused to answer any questions beyond that). There was never a fire here.
In February or March of this year, my wife called 911 because a severely inebriated person (from the known trap house next door) kept trying to break our front door down. The cops never showed so I took my dog out with me and chased him off. When I approached our council member for Ward 5, they connected me with the MPD commander for 5D who confirmed that DC 911 mislabeled our call as “low priority.” (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
So, when did the DC DMV remove our slogan from license plates? New VW Beetle Bus with newly minted DC tags.”
via google maps
“Dear PoPville,
I’m reaching out as a resident of the 15th Street NE corridor, bordering ANC 6A06 and 7D06, to raise urgent concerns about public safety conditions that are deteriorating rapidly in a neighborhood made up largely of young families. Many with children under the age of five.
Over the past several months, and especially in recent weeks, our community has experienced escalating gun violence, open drug activity, and other dangerous conditions that are now part of daily life. Just this week, there were seven separate shooting incidents in a single night, between 10 PM and 4 AM. That followed a recent morning shooting at 8:30 AM, while children were walking to nearby Miner preschool and elementary school. Some had to run for cover inside their school building.
In addition to the gun violence, we are regularly witnessing: (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
Is that …a swastika quilt? On Florida Ave, NE.”
Update from KD:
“Is that …a swastika quilt?” Yes and no. Yes, those are swastikas, which are ancient symbols predating Nazism by millenia. No, those are not Nazi swastikas, which are not curved and always point clockwise.”
“Dear PoPville,
With Mayor Bowser’s twelfth year in office rapidly approaching, I wanted to see how the POPville readers see the “response to their issues” from her Office of Constituent Relations and Services (MOCRS)? And if they, too, have seen a decline in the service that was specifically set up as the “avenue of last resort” to solve our dat-to-day issues
Recently, (well for the last 5 months), my recycling has just stopped being picked up and I have experienced one of the most jaw-dropping runarounds I have ever experienced in my almost 3 decades of living in DC. I will start this with I live on a street where the majority of my neighbors have “alley access” (I do not) meaning my weekly trash and recycling pick-up is in front of my house, it has been missed many times over the years…early on in her terms, a 311 request or call to the DPW helpline did the trick but right around the beginning of this year all avenues to get this issue dealt with seem to have gone “cold”.
Since January, (more…)