Catherine writes:
“Nationals, can the post game clean up with the leaf blowers please wait until the next day? It’s almost 1am and some of the residents in Capitol River Front have to be up in a few hours for work. Thanks!”
Ed. Note: We’ve previously spoken about leaf blowing frustrations here.
3400 Georgia Ave, NW between Park and Morton
“Dear PoPville,
I’d love to hear how neighbors feel about this. While I support live music and I welcome KrakenAxes’ presence and expansion as beer garden, the hours for Live Entertainment they are proposing seem excessive.”
Ed. Note: On April 3rd we posted Kraken’s new liquor license placard.
Meeting to discuss tomorrow night:
23rd and L Street, NW
“Dear PoPville,
I’m hoping I can find some feedback and direction with an issue that has been eating at me.
I was really excited that a Bluestone Lane was coming to DC (I always make a pit stop at one when I’m in NYC). The DC location is attached to the West End library. I have gone a few times. It’s delicious.
My general understanding of public libraries is that they provide a critical free resource to the community, namely a safe *free* learning environment. In the times I’ve spent in DC libraries, I’ve also noticed that people experiencing homelessness can find a little reprieve in these buildings. So here’s my issue: (more…)
Photo by PoPville flickr user angela n.
“Dear PoPville,
While I was running this morning, I got hit by a car. She didn’t see me at an intersection. I am banged up but nothing terrible. I’m writing you because I hope the people who helped me will read this. A woman running as well (she introduced herself as Gigi) turned around and scooped me up off the ground. She hugged me so hard and just let me cry on her. The kindness of this complete stranger floored me. She is an incredible human, and we need more of her in this world. Several others stopped to help. One woman called my husband and gave me her coat, another rushed to her house to get blankets. It’s easy to get caught up in the political gloom that looms over our city right now, but there are good, actually great, individuals out there, and I am so thankful some of them were there to help me out this morning.”
Update:
“Hi! OP here. Just a few things. The entire feed wasn’t posted so there are details missing. I am a DC resident and a person of color. This was ordered from target.com not an insta service. No special shipping requested. The back of the card has multiple white supremacy websites listed where like minded people can go to get information and mobilize. The diapers in question were inside of a bigger box with other items. So this card originated from target. Whether it was on a shelf and a rogue shopper placed it in the box or someone that packed it did is a mystery. It is also a target brand diaper. So if it happened at the manufacturer, it is still on them. What did I want target to do? Find the person and fire them. They didn’t and they aren’t. I’m not asking for a target boycott. I still shop at target. This happened a few weeks ago and with the post from yesterday a friend asked me to send it to Popville. So I did. I think the point some of you are missing is that this is happening. I used to watch stories about white supremacy on the news and be shocked and angry but then pretty much go on with my day never thinking it would make its way into my house. The day I opened this and found it in the box, I started shaking. I was angry. I was disgusted. I was terrified. I have a small child in my house. She is half white. But to a Neo-Nazi that won’t count. they will hate her just the same. Friends asked me if I thought they targeted me because of my last name? They asked if my name or my husband’s name was on the label. Mine was. I don’t feel I was targeted. I think someone put these in boxes at the warehouse hoping it would make its way into the right people’s hands. Calling the police or the FBI is ridiculous. Even though it is shitty, it’s protected speech. So they are allowed to do this. So what is the point of me sharing this? Making sure we all know it is happening everywhere and it can touch each and every one of us. No matter how benign it may seem to some of you. To a person of color and the white people that love them, it matters.”
“Dear PoPville,
I got white supremacy propaganda in a box of diapers I received from Target. Target isn’t doing anything about it. It’s unacceptable that Target is just blowing this off. I received another box of diapers and they shipped it with the handles taped shut. I assume that was their answer to this problem.”
“Dear PoPville,
A DC Restaurant Manager shared an Uber pool with two others and left NO review but that didn’t deter the Uber driver from suing her and her employer, Logan Tavern, for defamation over a perceived bad review.
I’ve sent three unanswered emails to UBER, left two phone messages unanswered and sent Twitter DM’s and FB DM’s.
They responded to FB DM by telling me they couldn’t help and the Twitter DM evoked a response of concern and twice a promise to get back though they never did.
I am somewhat surprised and at the same time not surprised at all that no one from Uber would even get back to me re the emails nor the two different phone messages I left Monday, one in Chicago and one in in San Fran.
I would suppose it’s indicative of larger structural issues or just plain apathy.
I am an Uber and Uber Eats customer.
I also own 5 restaurants that are all Uber Eats partners in Washington DC.
One of my Managers shared an Uber pool with two other people on Jan 30th from her home in DC, on Rhode Island Ave NE.
The driver dropped her at her place of employment, my restaurant, Logan Tavern in Washington DC at about 8:30 AM.
The driver then apparently received a bad review and assumed it was my manager. He came back to where he dropped her off 30 minutes later, Logan Tavern, and verbally assaulted her demanding she retract the the review. She tried to explain to him it was not her, that she had not left any review but he continued and stated he would sue her if she didn’t retract. We had this on video. (more…)
Photo by PoPville flickr user angela n.
“Dear PoPville,
About 4:45 Friday afternoon I was riding the bus eastbound. At a stop in Mt. Pleasant about 10 Highschool kids (another person already on the bus later informed the officers who arrived later they went to Wilson but who knows) entered the bus from the back entrance (not paying) pushing passed people trying to get on. Their target was another student, a young lady, sitting with her friend in the back. It was clear from the body language and the egging on of the other students getting on that their plan was to jump this girl either on the bus, or ride it till she had to get off and do it then.
At this point two older women who were seated near the girl in the back jumped up to shield her and began loudly accosting the girls and boys who had got on – while the bus driver stopped the bus and went to flag down a nearby police car. While it took some minutes for the cops to arrive and kick the kids off, during this whole time these women stood up to the mob with various admonishments and threats of their own (such as “Why – I will smack you so hard you’ll call your mama and when she comes down Ill smack her for raising you like this.”) (more…)
looking south on North Capitol
There has to be a plan to put benches in there right?
looking west on Florida Ave
“Dear PoPville,
The District has installed seven traffic lights that emit a loud beeping signal at the intersection of Irving St NW and Hobart Pl NW, at the edge of Wangari Gardens and a few feet from the gate to the Washington Hospital Center. It’s a quiet corner of a quiet neighborhood, and many days and nights I can hear the beeping from my house half a mile away. I imagine dozens of households closer to the intersection are even more disturbed by this racket.
I am sympathetic and concerned for the safety of my visually impaired neighbors, but I wonder if there’s any way I can get DPW to mitigate this 24-hour cacophony. [Ed. Note: I believe this is DDOT and not DPW] Few pedestrians use that intersection, and I wonder whether one visually impaired person crosses it in a week (I have no idea). Did DPW or another responsible agency study the matter before the installation? Can they turn down the volume so it’s audible only to a few feet away?
Has anyone had any experience with this issue?”
Photo by Flickr user Trader Scott
NO!!!!!!! A reader reports:
“I am currently renovating my basement, and my contractor was at DCRA last week to ask some questions. While there, he heard that starting 2018, DCRA is no longer approving building permits, where the owner wants to renovate and add a wet bar in the basement. Apparently this is coming from the zoning administrator. The concern is people often turn them into kitchens after the fact. I don’t remember hearing any announcements or discussions to this effect in a public forum – and am curious what others think.
However, I find the idea that the city won’t let a homeowner put a wet bar in his or her basement outrageous. (more…)