Alleged package theft at 8th and K St, NE
“Dear PoPville,
Can you post this for a friend of mine who lives off of 8th and K NE? He caught on camera a man stealing packages off his doorstep (the pictures are from a motion activated security camera). I know there are more pressing (violent) issues in this neighborhood right now, but the gall of this dude is infuriating.”
Ed. Note: Another reader sent an email about this incident saying the neighborhood group had a look out for Charlie Brown.
via google maps
“Dear PoPville,
My wife was in a fairly bad bike accident this morning. Details to follow. I’m posting to thank the guys who helped her and ask if there were any other witnesses who may have seen the car involved.
She was biking to work this morning (Nov. 5, around 8:45 a.m.) and as she turned right from 12th St. NE onto I St. NE, a car pulled out from an illegal parking spot into her path without warning. She hit the brakes and her bike went out from under her. She landed on her left hand and right arm. A man in a white pick up truck asked if she was OK. At the time she thought she was just bruised and said and said yeah so he moved on. Two men helped her get her bike out of the street onto the sidewalk, which is when she started to think she had broken her left wrist. The car that caused the accident did not stop, it just proceeded to turn right on 12th St. NE heading south.
I Street Northeast is a one-way with a contraflow bike lane. The car had been parked on the left side of the street in a spot that is crossed out and not meant for cars to use. She believes the car was a gray Prius, but didn’t get the license plate number.
We filed a police report and went to the hospital in an ambulance. She has not only a broken wrist, but a fracture in the elbow on the other arm. We are looking for anyone who may have seen the accident itself, or a gray Prius-like car going south on 12th St. NE a little after 8:45 a.m. any witnesses to this accident this morning. If you did see anything, please reply to this e-mail. We also want to thank the people who helped her again. This could have been even worse.”
“Dear PoPville,
An incident yesterday (Sunday) morning perfectly summed up why the H-street Streetcar will never work. I’m coming out of Bullfrog Bagels with my son and heading back to our car on H street. I see that right around our car, idling in the right-hand lane (East-bound), is the Streetcar. Why? Because in the parking lane, just in front of our car, is a poorly-parked car with a side-view window that will be hit by the passing Streetcar. So the Streetcar has radio’d for a tow truck. But where’s a tow truck on Sunday morning? 5, 10-plus minutes later, no tow truck. And meanwhile others coming out from Bullfrog Bagels are finding they are blocked in by the Streetcar. Can’t do anything. The Streetcar blocks in some 5-6 cars. To say nothing of the fact it blocks the whole right traffic lane. Fortunately, I had just enough room to make my escape.
I have no idea how much longer everybody had to wait around. But this episode to me proves that the Streetcar has a fundamental design flaw. It’s clearly too much to ask that the average citizen park perfectly along H street all the time. And it’s clearly too much to ask that DC always have a tow truck just ready to tow, all the time. And if you can’t guarantee these two things, you have an unbearably slow bus-on-rails that temporarily blocks both the right lane and half a dozen cars. It just doesn’t work. The whole thing should be scrapped and the money earmarked for it in 2016 should be spent on a third-party deep dive audit that explains all the ways that DC messed it up, but with an eye towards how to avoid these kind of decisional mistakes in the future.”
Is it possible people will learn to park better?
920 H Street, NE
A reader reports:
“I was in Park’s Hardware on H St. NE on Saturday, and the owner said that they’re planning to close at the end of November. I know you had something back in August about the building being up for sale – presumably this means they have found a buyer. She blamed declining business on the Home Depot a couple of miles away (although the Home Depot has been there since ’02). I didn’t ask what was going to be coming in to the space after they close. I’ll miss having a hardware store in walking distance, as well as their cool sign.”
1351 H Street, NE
From Maketto:
“DIM SUM SUNDAYS AT MAKETTO
STARTING THIS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25TH
FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED
11:30am-3:30pm
A LA CARTE ($4-20)
MENU INCLUDES: (more…)
Proverbially speaking of course. The Washington Post reports:
“The District is in a final dash to open its long-delayed and much-maligned streetcar project to passengers by year’s end, the city’s top transportation official said.”
Now word on the North/South Georgia Ave line…
Vaughn sends video “of an armed robbery in front of my house last week. 12:20am in the early hours of Monday Oct 12th.”
MPD alert:
“Robbery Gun //900 blk of 9th Street, NE //LOF (2) B/M’s armed w/ guns wearing white t-shirts & blue jeans”
courtesy Maketto
From an email:
“MAKETTO NOW TAKING RESERVATIONS
ALL TIMES AVAILABLE
CALL (202) 838-9972 AFTER 11AM
1351 H Street NE
DOORS OPEN: 7AM, MONDAY-SUNDAY
BREAKFAST • LUNCH • DINNER”
Check out their menus here. Any fans?
1413 H Street, NE
“Dear PoPville,
Any chance you or readers any updates on what is going on with https://www.popville.com/2015/01/dc-conscious-cafe-close-to-opening-on-h-street-ne/DC Conscious Cafe on H St?
I live nearby and have been hoping it would open for months. Wondering if the project is defunct and will taunt me with the welcoming facade until someone else buys the property, or if it might actually open?”
and another reader simply asks: “Is Bab Korean ever going to open?”
All good questions. Seems like a lot of money was spent on renovations so it’s bizarre both projects seem stalled for so long. Anyone hear anything?
1387 H Street, NE
