What: A Police Service Area meeting for 504, which includes all of Trinidad, The Florida Market, Ivy City, and Carver-Langston. Learn about crime in the area and discuss strategies for preventing it.
Where: The Developing Families Center, 1801 17th Street
When: 10am
12 comments:
can't wait to learn about crime! sounds exciting!
how do they do it? why? so many fascinating questions!
btw, nice picture. are all of those phones working? if so, that's gotta be one of the last pix of an era gone by.
nice shot. you should submit it to ... i dunno... some contest somewhere... :o)
maybe to the heritage trail!
Indeed they are a dying breed. I was pulling from the archives. These particular phones have now been removed. Three always seemed like a lot of pay phones for a single corner in a residential block. I can't think of a remaining street payphone in the neighborhood.
The store next to the phones shut down first. My understanding was that the owner, who lived above the store with his wife, was murdered during a robbery in the store, and it has remained shuttered ever since.
If I remember correctly, there is a (newer) pay phone at a closed store along M Street headed towards Florida from the Metro. I think it's M and 3 NE ... near Uline Arena.
There's a pay phone in the Hechinger Center next to Model's.
By the way, did any one notice that Tommy Wells earmarked nothing to H street or NE for that matter in the DC Council 56 million dollar give a way? CHAMPS got money, H streets gets a lots of words.
Anon 7:17, could you link to a story or webpage re: the budget? I'd like to have a chat with Mr. Wells and Mr. Thomas if it is the case that H Street got nothing.
The article was posted on the
ANC 6a listserve. I scanned the article(I will admit that I don't always know how these things work) but my impression was that it was largely handouts to existing organizations/non profits that probably lobbied for some money. I would think that some organization on H Street/having to do with H Street would have to have asked for something.
For instance CHAMPS and Capitol Hill Community Foundation got money.
ask your commishioners. they SHOULD have a handle on what is going on...
oops, nasty spelling. guess i'm not that good at multitasking...
Colbert King has a column about this in Saturday's WP. He lists a lot of theaters but the Atlas, nor H street Playhouse was among them. Fords theater which is federally owned got $10 mil.
Not in the King article is that a group that Wells used to work with, got a nice big chunk of change.
Who is the group that Wells worked with that got the money?
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