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“It truly brought me so much joy.”

Published March 10, 2020 at 10:30AM | Updated March 10, 2020 at 10:56AM

1717 M Street, NW

Thanks to Mary for sending:

“Sending this piece of sunshine this Tuesday. As I turned down 15th Street from Connecticut this morning I heard a second line band playing – it paraded down from what looked like St. Matthews to Caruso Florist to wish Mr. Caruso a happy birthday. That’s Mr. Caruso in the middle and you can see the man on the right holding a birthday cake. It truly brought me so much joy.”

Update from Jen: “This made my day as well. We found out it’s his 90th birthday! And then we were gifted some free roses for celebrating”

#Awesome

“But they forgot to account for one thing: A one-year-old stomping over our heads 24/7.”

By Prince Of Petworth

Published February 4, 2020 at 12:55PM

Photo by PoPville flickr user Caitlin Faw

“Dear PoPville,

I need advice. I live in a beautiful, relatively new condo building. The developers kept the historic facade intact but gutted and rebuilt the interior of the building. High-end hardwood floors, great appliances… They even sound-proofed the place to a great extent, which is a luxury in DC. But they forgot to account for one thing: A one-year-old stomping over our heads 24/7. I love kids and want kids myself one day.

However, our upstairs neighbors’ kid stomps around the apartment – especially early in the mornings. Our sleep quality is almost non-existent at this point. Who needs a 7 am alarm when a kid stomps around over your head starting at 6 am, right? You want to sleep in on a Sunday? Too bad, the kid will wake you up around 7-7:30am. We emailed our neighbors directly but they either don’t seem to care or are not really cut out for parenting and don’t actually know how to regulate their kid’s behavior. They don’t say no to their kid or tell him to stop because he “throws a temper tantrum.”

[Ed. Note: Now hold on a second. It’s not necessarily fair to judge parenting through walls. As the parent of two little kids myself, one who wakes up very early, I can tell you first hand that there is zero way to “regulate that behavior”. I have tried alarm clocks, the stick to the carrot, tears to begging, prayers to all major deities and my kid wakes up when she wakes up. (more…)

Behold

By Prince Of Petworth

Published January 29, 2020 at 9:35AM | Updated January 29, 2020 at 2:24PM

Update:

Less than 5 min 🤯🤯🤯

— OLD BAY (@OLDBAYSeasoning) January 29, 2020

Big news from Old Bay: (more…)

I love this little parklet

By Prince Of Petworth

Published January 23, 2020 at 4:00PM

From the 3200 block of O Street, NW just off Wisconsin. Obviously nicer in the warmer months but this really looks great: (more…)

Resident Frustration Mounts After Saturday Morning Shooting in the Capitol View Building: “Please see the attached photo of the bullet hole in the elevator landing wall.”

By Prince Of Petworth

Published January 6, 2020 at 9:15AM | Updated January 6, 2020 at 9:52AM

A reader shares some frustration and more details about the Saturday morning shooting inside the Capitol View building at 14th and Belmont Street, NW:

“The UDR building management has sought to downplay this incident from the start. They didn’t send any message to residents until more than 3 hours after the incident occurred with very little information. Then when they did follow-up several more hours later, the message is an unacceptable minimization of their knowledge of the ongoing problem with this unit, the seriousness of the incident itself and the severity of the damage caused.

Per the MPD on the scene, multiple rounds were fired within the fourth floor hallway. The gunfire was not confined to the unit. Please see the attached photo of the bullet hole in the elevator landing wall. If it’s not an “on-going threat to the community” now, it certainly was when bullets were flying in a common space at 9 a.m. on a Saturday! (more…)

#tenant rights

“Homelessness is a clear issue in DC and we want to be sympathetic to someone that’s already suffering, but we’re at a loss as to what to do next.”

By Prince Of Petworth

Published January 3, 2020 at 1:15PM

Photo by PoPville flickr user Victoria Pickering

“Dear PoPville,

There is a woman that lives outside of Seaton Elementary School on 10th Street NW. She’s been there for a few months, in all conditions. We’ve dropped off left overs for her and exchanged polite pleasantries at times. We’ve called the shelter hotline on particularly cold nights, concerned for her safety. Until recently we haven’t had any other concerns related to her.

Over the past few weeks, however, she’s consistently been using our alley as a bathroom. With our block full of curious kids and dogs, and rain too infrequent to be a reliable clean up method, a few of us neighbors have done our best to continually clean up after her. (more…)