Hiatt and Irving St, NW
Thanks to all who sent emails/photos of the coming soon signs for Petco.
Columbia Heights
“Can you see if anyone in the community knows this dog? Ill be holding on to him for a few hours but will need to take him to animal rescue tonight as we already have our own pooch. Thanks! maddenlp21(at)gmail(at)com”
Photo by PoPville flickr user ep_jhu
“Dear PoPville,
This is probably nothing, but just in case it’s something: I live in Columbia Heights, near the corner of 13th and Columbia Road. When I came home yesterday afternoon and was walking up my steps to my shared rowhouse, a middle-aged man came out of the vestibule, which we keep unlocked. When I said hello, he said “Just dropping off some cards, looking for work,” and then walked off pretty quickly. But when I went into the vestibule myself, there were no cards.
Our inner door was locked just fine, and when I walked inside I noticed some valuables were visible from the front window.
Anyway, probably nothing, but I thought it was weird that he didn’t leave any cards, and didn’t try to talk to me about the kind of work he was looking for. I think it’s possible he was “casing” our house. Wondering if anyone else in the neighborhood has noticed anything similar, and definitely advise everyone to keep their valuables locked up/out of view.”
Photo by PoPville flickr user rosiedawn
Yesterday we learned about the troubling incident:
“Attempted attack on my wife and I on Friday at about 5:30 PM on 14th and Park” MPD reached out and here is an update from the reader:
” So I’ve spoken with several different officers including supervisors tonight.
They’ve all been very responsive to the issues at hand and know who this individual is. They did canvas the area looking for him and showed me his photo which I confirmed that it was him.
They are going to also deal with my concerns regarding the officers I dealt with on Friday and Saturday.
I can wholeheartedly say that everyone I’ve spoken with tonight has been fantastic. And it’s definitely been genuine concern. All the way down to the thoroughness of making sure I identified the right “suspect” via a photograph they had.
While I don’t feel it should take a blog post with 100+ comments and several tweets to influential officials to get some action taken, I do commend MPD for responding extremely quickly and going beyond what they probably had to do with me tonight. I think that speaks volumes about their concern, and I only hope that it makes an impact on how they handle certain things going forward. If not, then this was all for nothing.
All supervisors who I spoke with tonight seemed adamant about correcting the issues with these officers and felt genuinely bad about the experience I had.
As far as this “suspect”: if you do see him and feel he is a threat to you or others, please call 911, state he may be mentally ill and a risk to you or himself and ask for a supervisor to be sent to his location to speak to him in order to assess the situation and the individual. It is clear that he’s on the radar of many of the officers in the 3rd district (especially now) so I feel confident that they will be responsive to any calls about him.”
2400 14th St, NW looking south towards Florida Ave
Thanks to all who sent emails. We’ve been eagerly anticipating the arrival of the “Natural Market” coming to the new Capitol View on 14th building. They’ve applied for a liquor license which says:
“New grocery store with organic and locally grown produce, meats, nutritious foods, and eco household products. Their food court will serve as a bakery, deli and sushi bar. 25% or less Alcohol Sales.”
Hours will be Sunday through Saturday 8:00 am – 10:00 pm. More info as it becomes available.
14th and Belmont St, NW looking north toward Columbia Heights
Photo by PoPville flickr user rosiedawn
“Dear PoPville,
At about 5:45 PM on Friday night (June 21), my wife and I were walking down 14th street toward the metro and were approaching Park Road. We were just at about the front door of Z Burger on 14th street when we both noticed a suspicious male staring at us as we we were walking. He was maybe 3 feet from the Z Burger entrance where we were closer to Wells Fargo entrance but much closer to the right side of the sidewalk, close to the street.
We both didn’t know we sensed something strange about this guy until my wife and I talked after the incident once we were safe. Basically, “Yeah I noticed him too when we were walking but didn’t think that was going to happen.”
As we were approaching him, I started to move my wife and I closer and closer to the right hand side of the sidewalk as I saw the man keep staring at us and walking slowly towards us. Again, something seemed strange and my instincts kicked in.
I would say there were probably easily 100 people crowded on the sidewalk in every direction as this was as a very busy time on Friday night as the “square” in front of the Pollo Campero and the yogurt shop was packed and people walking “with” us and past us on 14th as usual.
As we got closer to the Z Burger, he came sprinting at us with what I can only describe as a 1000 yard stare in his eyes – as if he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. It was very scary. I yelled at my wife to run, and I shielded her from him as we moved away. He came charging at me, and I put my hands out instinctually and yelled as loud as I could at him. My hope was I could startle him as well and prepare to physically defend myself if he kept charging. (more…)
From KBC (11th and Park Rd, NW):
Kangaroo Boxing Club has got some new things in the works. First off, we’re super excited to be celebrating our 1 year anniversary with a fun shindig at the restaurant on Sunday, June 30th. It’s gonna be a lot of fun with a delicious helping of local suckling pig for all those carnivorous eaters out there.
Also, we have a new happy hour (and a half) with killer new deals on draft beer, wine, whiskey and appetizers. And lastly, due to popular demand our kitchen is now open until 11PM every night (with our usual late night menu until 1:30 AM on Fridays and Saturdays.
And from ACRE 121 (14th and Irving St, NW):
SPECIALS:
● $2 drafts, bottles & cans OPEN to CLOSE Wednesday thru Friday
● Half-priced Wine Wednesday with bottles all night & glasses 5-8
● $5 Sangria 5-8 on the patio on Thursday
● Free hush puppies and peel-and-eat shrimp on Friday
KBC happy hour menu after the jump. (more…)
14th and Park Road, NW
Anyone remember the controversy about Z Burger’s outdoor patio? I think it turned out pretty nice:
And the milkshake stand is now open too:
@IAFF36 tweeted around 10pm:
“Stabbing – 14th St & Parkwood Pl NW – multiple people stabbed, add’l ALS & transport units req #dcfd #ColumbiaHeightsDC”
Then followed up with:
“Update – 14th St & Parkwood Pl NW – 1 stabbed, treated & transp to trauma center, life threatening; 2nd pt stabbed & fled scene”
Around 10:30pm @IAFF36 tweeted:
“Shooting – 100blk Bates St NW – male shot, treating & transporting to trauma center #dcfd #TruxtonCircleDC”
@DCAlerts tweeted that there were 2 victims:
“Police Alert- Shooting_2214HRS_100 BLK OF BATES ST, NW_2 MALE VICTIM CONSCIOUS AND BREATHING.”
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Thanks to a reader for sending word and the photo above from Wonderland and the photo below from Red Rocks. Reader says power out from the south side of Park Rd, NW to at least Kenyon on 11th Street.
Update: On twitter another @Shipsa01 says:
“power outage in #BloomingdaleDC closed @RedHenDC”
And @KJinDC7 says Park View is also experiencing outage.
@capitaljeff says:
“#PEPCO map shows outages in Dupont, Logan, West End as well. So far no problem here n.border of 20037 in Dupont.”
and @AndrewLoeb says:
“Power outage extending east to GA Ave.”
