Neighborhoods

Hullabaloo over Hush Harbor Hushed on H Street, NE

By Prince Of Petworth


1337 H Street, NE previously home to Hill Prince

“Dear PoPville,

Can you find out what happened to Hush Harbor? Has been closed for awhile now. No sign on the door or anything but they have been consistently closed for weeks.”

Wild. Washington Business Journal reports: “Smartphone-free bar Hush Harbor pivots to pop-ups after less than a year on H Street”

All that hullabaloo…

Hill Prince first opened here in 2017 before being sold to Rock Harper in 2023.

Hush Harbor’s IG has been wiped.

For posterity: (more…)

YO!! Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park Fountains “Fully functioning and look lovely!!” Bottom Section reopens to public

By Prince Of Petworth


16th Street between Euclid and W Street, NW

Ed. Note: We got our first sneak peek of the fountains flowing during testing on May 7th. Hopefully they stay on for the whole season now. Fences first went up in late December 2025.

Thanks to all who sent us photos yesterday and this morning: “Miracle of Miracles! Flowing and open to the public tonight at Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park, Thursday evening. It was fenced off and not flowing this past weekend when I stopped by. This is lovely.”

MANY MORE Photos of the fountains filled and flowing: (more…)

Free Bagel Alert! (Friday)

By Prince Of Petworth

From Pops Bagels (1625 Eckington Place, NE):

“Pops Bagels in Eckington doing free bagels tomorrow (Friday) to every customer to celebrate the start of summer.

Customers Can

– Come in and ask for a free bagel
– Or we will discount the price of bagel from the order.”

“DDOT introduces new Autonomous Vehicle monitoring challenge”

By Prince Of Petworth

From a press release:

“US Ignite, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), and Southwest Business Improvement District (SWBID) are thrilled to announce plans to launch an Autonomous Vehicle Observation (AVO) Zone Challenge in June 2026, a pivotal step toward understanding autonomous vehicle activity on public streets in dense urban environments.

The AVO Zone Challenge is designed to (more…)

Today* in Hawks*** Around Town – “a lone monarch butterfly flittering around the milkweeds”

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoPville,

We have been slowly converting our front yard into a native plant-scape…and it is finally bearing fruit (of the insect kind)! We noticed a lone monarch butterfly flittering around the milkweeds and a couple of weeks later saw that something had been nibbling the leaves. We turned over a few and, lo-and-behold, we have caterpillars! They are super tiny and our son is checking on them every morning. We’ve noticed lots of other pollinators as well even though it is early in the year: a black swallowtail, sulphurs, honeybees, sphinx moths, and even a hummingbird moth (all on moss phlox). (more…)

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