Official word from NPS: “After an extensive rehabilitation project, the Dupont Circle Fountain is flowing again. Now properly balanced and waterproofed, the fountain will run until cold temperatures required it to be winterized.”
Thanks to Brad and Matt for sending photos of the Dupont Circle fountain flowing again once more!!: (more…)
Thanks to Marj for sending the good news yesterday:
“Escalator at DCUSA finally being repaired. You can’t see the service man in the picture, but I swear it’s not just the yellow blockade.”
“Dear PoPville,
Milkbar’s alarm is once again beeping every 45 seconds day and night since 11/6. I told the clerk that day whose only response was, “Okay.” (more…)
drew asks:
“has anyone contacted DCUSA or know how to? The up escalator has been broken for well over a month in the shopping mall and it looks like there’s been zero effort to fix it”
“Dear PoPville,
I am reaching out to the community to see if anyone has any experience with daytime noise complaints. One of our neighbors spends most of every day blasting proselytizing Christian sermons and gospel music (of which some of the tunes are repeated over and over for hours). (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
I live close by to Howard University’s Plaza Towers on Barry Pl. NW, and have been hearing their fire alarms go off almost daily, sometimes multiple times a day (and as late as midnight). (more…)
Thanks to a couple of readers for sending:
“Surprisingly polite, especially for Dupont. Might be a good time to remind folks that residential cans don’t always get flipped so putting loose trash in them (like poop bags) just forces whoever (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
Any advice for now to contact the developers for the new Wardman Park location in Woodley Park? I live along Harvard St NW in Columbia Heights and for weeks now, day after day all we hear are the deafening sounds of large dump trucks, cement trucks, and garbage trucks roaring up the street, all of which are coming from the Wardman Park redevelopment in Woodley Park. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
Stand near Milkbar on 15th St and you’ll hear a loud beep every 45 seconds. It’s from an alarm to the left of Milkbar’s “1525” sign above their entrance. It flashes red as it beeps. (more…)
