This rental is located at 312 R Street, NW:
The listing says:
“Sun-drenched semi detached town home for rent in the historic Shaw community. 3 nice size bedrooms with reach in closets, 2.5 baths, CAC, stackable washer/dryer, small deck for entertaining, enjoy cozying up in front of the gas fireplace. Spacious kitchen with white appliances, granite counter tops. Plenty of street parking. Easy commute to Shaw metro & local restaurants.”
This 3 BD/2 Full, 1 Half BA is going for $3,500/Mo.
From a press release:
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to President Obama requesting $40 million to cover the city’s emergency construction of storm water storage tanks at the McMillan Reservoir, in addition to a $15 million installment to partially fund the District’s Clean Rivers Project. The extra $40 million is to alleviate the flooding that has plagued the Bloomingdale and LeDroit Park neighborhoods in the District.
In her letter, Norton stressed the urgency of addressing the inadequate capacity of the city’s federally constructed combined sewer system, which has caused significant property damage and hardship for District residents this past year, noting that the city’s sewer systems also are necessary for the functioning of the federal government. Norton further wrote that “residents living in the Bloomingdale and LeDroit Park neighborhoods in the District suffered repeated and severe damage to their homes, including sewage backing up into houses as a result of intense rainfalls, which also flooded city roads…. The flooding is the result of insufficient capacity in the Northeast Boundary Trunk Sewer (NEBTS), which was constructed by the federal government in the late 1800s. Capacity limitations for this sewer were documented soon after it was built, but no substantive action was taken.”
Concerned with the devastating effects of the limited capacity of D.C.’s combined sewer system on our waterways, Norton has successfully pressed for annual federal funds for the city’s $2.6 billion Clean Rivers Project to eliminate combined sewer overflows into the Anacostia and Potomac rivers and Rock Creek, including $15 million in fiscal year 2012. However, she said that this project will not address quickly enough the flooding in the Bloomingdale and LeDroit Park neighborhoods, and funds to keep further damage to homes and businesses are essential. Norton said, “Local and federal ratepayers will bear the bulk of the burden for these projects, but federal payments to help offset that burden are necessary because of the scope of the project.”
4th and T St, NW
A reader sent word of a major police presence in Ledroit Park late Friday afternoon:
“Above is a picture from the corner of 4th and T Street NW. Cops have been here since I got home around 4:30pm. They haven’t told us anything except to stay inside they aren’t letting folks come in or out of their homes at this time.”
On the Ledroit Park listserve, Jana Baldwin updates:
“The suspect and victim that were involved in the shooting last night knew each other.”
MPD tweeted around 4am Sunday Morning:
“5D/ SHOOTING/ 800 BLK OF 20TH ST. NE AND 1900 BLK OF M ST. NE/ 3 VICTIMS/ NO LOOKOUT// 8245”
I’m really digging this new sculpture on the side of a row house just past Ellington Plaza by Bistro Bohem and the Ethiopian Restaurant Zenebech Injera at 6th and Florida Ave, NW. We’ve seen the sweet murals before but this is the first time I’m seeing the sculpture. Nice addition.
Close up and the murals after the jump. (more…)
This rental is located at 101 U Street, NW:
The listing says:
“Trendy LeDroit Park! Fabulous 1 bedroom plus large den,/huge foyer entrance can be used as a living room, lots of extra space in unit, washer and dryer plus a large eat in kitchen with rear entrance/exit into shared rear yard***Walk to Howard U, “Timor” Organic Grocery, Bloomingdale Farmer’s Market… Window’s Cafe and more!It’s not just a home…..It’s a LIFESTYLE. Pets welcome. Utilities included”
This 1 bed/1 bath is going for $1,500/Mo.
From a DCWater press release:
District Breaks Ground on Large-Scale Flood Relief for Bloomingdale and LeDroit Park
NE Boundary Neighborhood Protection Project to Come Online in Stages, Beginning Early 2014(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — To mitigate flooding and sewer backups in the Bloomingdale and LeDroit Park neighborhoods, Mayor Vincent C. Gray and DC Water today announced a major new infrastructure project at the site of the former McMillan Sand Filtration Plant. The Northeast Boundary Neighborhood Protection Project is a product of the Mayor’s Task Force on the Prevention of Flooding, and will be built in three phases between now and 2022.
Mayor Gray established the task force in late August and named City Administrator Allen Y. Lew and DC Water General Manager George S. Hawkins as co-chairs.
“I asked the Task Force two basic questions,” said Mayor Gray. “The first is why the long-term solution to this historic problem was still more than a decade away. The second is whether anything more could be done in the interim. This project answers both questions. I applaud the Task Force and DC Water for developing it, and I want the residents of the affected communities to know that relief is on the way. It will be meaningful, and it will come soon.”
Continues after the jump. (more…)
Over the weekend the newly renovated Ledroit Park Market reopened at 4th and T St, NW. Looks great!
400 Florida Ave, NW
Back in Dec. 2011 we noted that the new Arthur Treacher’s at 4th and Florida Ave, NW had added Korean Bulgogi to their traditional Fish and Chips menu. Now they’re getting in on the wing game too:
391 Rhode Island Ave, NW
Back in June we learned that the old Frazier’s Funeral Home in Ledroit Park would become a “4-5 unit multi-unit residential building”. Thanks to hipchickindc for sending an update on how the famous formstone removal is coming along. I wonder if they’ll keep it as simply red brick or if it will be painted.
Above 600 Florida Ave, NW
Sweet new mural above the recently opened Kafe Bohem at 600 Florida Ave, NW (across from the Ledroit Park sign.)
Duke Ellington Plaza