3701 Newark Street, NW
From an email:
“We’ll be opening this Tuesday, April 6. Because of COVID, we won’t be having a grand opening party, but we will be offering Grand Opening party packs for sale.”
Hours will be: “sunday – thursday 11a – 9p and friday – saturday 11a – 11p”
Check out their menus here.
3401 Idaho Ave., NW just off Wisconsin
signage went up in late January for a Matchbox in the former Grilled Oyster space. Now a liquor license placard has been posted too:
“A new Retailer’s Class C Restaurant with a seating capacity of 200 and Total Occupancy Load of 221. Summer Garden with 39 seats.”
Stay tuned.
Photo by DC Fire & EMS
DC Fire & EMS reported at 4:35pm Saturday: “Engine 5 made quick work of this car fire at 35th & Garfield Streets NW. Another day at the office.”
Photo by Jim DiNatale
Wisconsin and Macomb Street, NW
Unfortunately more carjackings reported yesterday. Stacc Janford reported at 5:07pm “carjacking in broad day light at 3401 Idaho Ave NW. More cops showing up and some heading south down Wisconsin Ave”
Updates when/if more is released about the above.
And from MPD: “Suspect Sought in an Armed Carjacking (Gun) Offense: 1500 Block of 17th Street, Northwest (more…)
3401 Idaho Ave., NW just off Wisconsin
Some had questions whether or not Matchbox was still coming to the former Grilled Oyster space given the closure on 14th Street and other, uh, issues. The new signage just went up so stay tuned for an opening date.
Photo/art by MICHAEL PENDRY
From a press release:
“Washington National Cathedral will host a new art exhibit showcasing thousands of paper doves suspended from the Cathedral’s vaulted, 100-foot-high ceiling, beginning next week through May 2021. The “Les Colombes” exhibit is by German artist Michael Pendry, who has created similar works at Cathedrals around the world, and symbolizes the Biblical theme of hope and optimism heading into the new year after a very challenging 2020. (more…)
Photo by Brandon Kopp
From an email:
“Washington National Cathedral will toll its bells 300 times on Tuesday, Dec. 15 starting at 5 p.m. ET, in memory of the 300,000 Americans who have died of COVID-19.
The Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, the Cathedral’s dean, also released this statement:
“We have reached the point in America where the death toll from COVID-19 for just one day was the equivalent of 16 fully loaded 737 jets falling from the sky. (more…)
Photo by Eric P.
From the National Cathedral:
“This is a reminder that today, Nov. 3 and tomorrow, Nov. 4, Washington National Cathedral will temporarily reopen to the public for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March. Members of the public are free to come to the Cathedral to pray for the election and the country.
The Cathedral will hold a “Service of Healing, Unity and Hope” after the election on Wednesday at 12 noon ET, which will be live-streamed.
We will be exercising strict social distancing and contact-tracing protocols. After the 4th, the Cathedral will be closed again, pending further developments in the pandemic.”
3935 Macomb Street, NW via google maps
Read the full press release issued by The Office of the Attorney General here.
This rental is located at Cathedral Avenue NW near 39th Street NW. The Craigslist ad says:
“$1,745 / 1br – 682ft2 – Light-filled one bedroom with view of National Cathedral towers (more…)