via google maps
From MPD (sent at 4:01am): “Alert: Shooting Investigation in the 1200 block of Connecticut Avenue, NW. Lookout for 2 B/Ms, 5’8, wearing all black clothing. DO NOT TAKE ACTION CALL 911”
Updates if/when more is released.
Downtown
1331 F Street, NW via Bensons Jewelers
“Dear PoPville,
Just FYI – another business closing downtown after 83 YEARS!!
Benson’s jewelers – spoke to the owner – last day is next Tuesday – closing because nobody comes downtown anymore – his words.”
From Bensons:
“Bensons will be closing as of February 24th.
Thank you for your past patronage.” (more…)
1250 New York Ave, NW “National Museum of Women in the Arts, exterior, 13th Street and New York Avenue sides; Photo by Thomas H. Field”
From the National Museum of Women in the Arts:
“The National Museum of Women in Arts (NMWA), the world’s first major museum solely dedicated to championing women artists, reopens its extensively renovated building on October 21, 2023. The transformed museum will feature new exhibition spaces, re-envisioned public programming areas, improved amenities and increased accessibility for visitors at its historic home at 1250 New York Avenue, NW, in Washington, D.C. In addition to an expansive reinstallation of the collection, NMWA will present an inaugural exhibition, The Sky’s the Limit, featuring powerful monumental sculpture and immersive installations by a dozen contemporary women artists, in an innovative presentation not possible prior to the renovation. (more…)
1211 Connecticut Ave. NW
Anyone hear any details about what the changes will be other than name?
“The National Park Service will clear the unsheltered encampment at McPherson Square on February 15”
tent fire December 1st, 2022
Ed. Note: Last weekend the Post had an editorial “It’s time to clear out the McPherson Square encampment”
A reader passes on the below letter from the National Mall and Memorial Parks:
“The National Park Service (NPS) will clear the unsheltered encampment at McPherson Square on February 15, 2023, shifting the closure date up two months from the initial posted closure date of April 12, 2023. The updated closure date responds to the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services’ (DMHHS) January 9 request that NPS close the McPherson Square encampment on February 1 because high levels of illegal drug activity and other dangerous and unsafe activities significantly impede social services outreach and endanger social services providers, mental health clinicians, unsheltered individuals, and the public. Following DMHHS’ request, the NPS considered the recommendation of the United States Park Police (USPP) in determining the February 15 closure date. (more…)
inside 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Photos courtesy Jose Andres Group
From a press release:
“Jose Andres Group is proud to introduce The Bazaar by Jose Andres in the historic Old Post Office building in Washington, D.C., relaunched in 2022 by CGI Merchant Group, in partnership with Hilton under the Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts brand. The opening of The Bazaar at Waldorf Astoria Washington DC signals the culmination of a 30-year journey for Chef Andres, who has dreamed of opening a restaurant in the historic building since he arrived in Washington, DC in 1993. (more…)
|
1712 I Street, NW formerly home to Wicked Waffle
Ed. Note: They also have a location at the Wharf at 49 District Square, SW.
“The Specialty is Bubble Tea & Rice bowl and Desserts.” (more…)
1990 M Street, NW formerly a Pizza Hut
“Dear PoPville,
The 19 & M Kung Fu Tea is completely cleared. It opened in 2018 and also had a tang noodle that shut down sometime in the last couple years.”
Ed. Note: Next door Nagomi Izakaya closed back in June. Updates when we learn what becomes of the spaces.
Thanks to B. for sending: “No driver inside. At 17th and K. Yes MD tags.”
formerly home to Mike Isabella’s Arroz
STK, “modern steakhouse and a chic lounge”, had a brief run back in 2014-2016 in Dupont at 1250 Connecticut Avenue, NW (RIP California Pizza Kitchen, currently home to City Tap House). A liquor license placard at the old Mike Isabella spot at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, for STK Steakhouse says:
“A class “C” steakhouse Restaurant with 100 seats inside the premises and a Total Occupancy Load of 213. Sidewalk Café with 76 seats and a Total Occupancy Load of 83. (more…)