781 7th Street, NW (previously home to Circa and Zengo before them) via Tom’s Watch Bar
Braulio Agnese wrote on Friday: “Tom’s Watch Bar Chinatown closed. Yikes.”
Tom’s opened here in December 2022. (more…)
quality of life
1st floor Union Station
Union Station haters – put this in your pipe and smoke it!
We’re back.
Stay tuned for an opening date.
“Dear PoPville,
I live near the Engine 8 fire station in Hill East and while I admit it’s a little less awful than your recurring series, it’s still not great!
They’ve been replacing the roof at the fire station for the past couple weeks and this has resulted in lots of noise every morning because they start bright and early (including on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend). Today they’ve gone to the next level — they started work at 5:30 in the morning, (more…)
Spotted on 9th Street in Shaw near U Street.
photo by Rukasu1
“Dear PoPville,
First – I would like to be clear, I do not wish to limit free speech of any kind, just lower the volume a smidge, especially when said speakers/preachers are 5-10 feet from residences, businesses, bus stops and metro entrances as well as 20 feet from a senior apartment building.
This particular issue has been ongoing since the start of the pandemic in 2020. It involves 2-3 preachers yelling into an amplified speaker right next to the Truist Bank and steps from the WMATA 52-54 bus stop on the corner of 14th and Irving Streets NW for hours on end. (more…)
Thanks to N. for passing on from DPR yesterday:
“DPR pools have seen 260,000+ visitors this summer! It’s cool to be at the pool, but we must be safe! Starting today, safety breaks returned to only children and guardians exiting the pool for 15 min every hour at the 45-minute mark.”
photo by angela n.
From the office of Eleanor Holmes Norton (Tuesday):
“After her amendments to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Bill were excluded by the Rules Committee late last night and an amendment filed by Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) to increase the number of flights to Reagan National Airport was advanced, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus, said she is disappointed but unsurprised that the Republican-controlled House chose to prioritize the temporary comfort of members of Congress over passenger safety and equality for D.C. (more…)
Big news from Jeppson’s Malort this morning: “We are excited to announce our new partnership with Lanterna Distributors in Delaware, Maryland, and D.C.!”
And may God have mercy on our souls: (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
The last week of May, the co-op next to our co-op experienced a major malfunction of their HVAC system. Their response was to have a crane deliver a temporary HVAC unit the size of a school bus and a gasoline powered generator the size of a box truck.
The way the buildings are arranged, the neighbors’ mixed use (residential
and business) parking lot is between us along an entire side of our building, and within about ten feet of the exterior wall of our building.
Both of these machines were parked on the very edge of the parking lot, as close to our building as possible.
The generator was removed after four or five weeks. The HVAC machine remains (it has been seven weeks so far) and os possibly going to be here through October.
The HVAC machine sounds like a cross between a jet engine ready for take-off, the train-crossing alarm, a tornado warning siren, a glass harmonica, and someone sanding floors. This sound goes on around the clock. The sound is LOUD. The sound is both deep AND high pitched, so it both shakes our walls and floor AND penetrates through the glass and a variety of types of earplugs.
We have been told: (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
I live in Columbia heights and there has been for (not even kidding) 2 months a dog in the alley behind my apartment that barks CONSTANTLY. It is caged in the back of a home, and seems to be out there all the time. (more…)