Month: March 2006

Third Thursday Shopper Special on 14th & U Streets- 03/16
The MidCity Business Association is pleased to support this merchant run event that highlights the retail businesses of 14th Street and U Street.
Come out shop and enjoy! – Please Forward.
Third Thursday Shopper Social on 14th & U Street

March 16, 5-8 pm

Spring brings a renewal in life and in shopping! 14th Street has joined the shopper social which means that shopping on 14th & U Street is twice the fun!

U Street: +
* Moojoo Ken, 15% off all items & 50% off selected items (light fare & refreshments), 1512 U
* Nana, 10% off everything new & an additional 10% off all sale items for savvy shoppers, 1528 U
* Homegrown, 5% off Bodee Candii Jewelry (brownie cake), 1514 U
* Junction, 20% off all vintage and 50% off the rack, 1510 U
* Habitat, sale on select jewelry, 1510 U
* Wild Women Wear Red, a free “DC Flava” tee with any purchase and 50% off most shoes and boots (light fare and refreshments), 1512 U
* Goodwood, 15% off lamps (wine and cheese), 1428 U
* Pink November, 10%-20% off on all new Spring arrivals, 1231 U
* Carbon, Up to 50% off selected merchandise… and new Spring shoes are arriving. 1203 U
* Meeps celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with their Luck O’ the Draw Sale!
Pick your luck! Discounts of 10%-50% off plus free prizes! (refreshments & treats), 1520 U 14th Street: +
* Dragonfly, 20% off all lacquer paintings
* Home Rule, 15% off candles and candle accessories, 1807 14th St
* Candida’s World of Books, 15% off store-wide sale, 1541 14th St
* 100% Mexico, 15% off store-wide sale, 1612 14th St
* Garden District, 60% off on select tools & spring bulbs, 1801 14th
St
* Pop, 75% off all remaining winter stock and 15% off all new Spring
items, 1803a 14th St
* Pet Essentials, 25% off dog coats and sweaters, 1722 14th St
* Muléh, Take an additional 20% all sale merchandise. Also check out
new men¹s and women¹s spring fashions by 3.1 by Phillip Lim, John Varvatos,Marika Charles, Nicholas K, Nicole Farhi, and Rozae Nichols 1831 14th
St
Plus there are New and Beautiful things for SPRING! Come Explore . . .

web: www.midcitylive.com

–Scott Pomeroy, Development Officer
MidCity Business Association
202.577.6786–
Www.MidCityLife.org

First there was the news of EC-12 the firehouse, slated to become a sit down neighborhood joint. Then there was news of Big Bear. Followed by news of a bakery. 2006 or 2007 is looking really good for the other side of Florida Avenue.
What does TC have? Well, one hoped for project fell through but really. The firehouse and Big Bear are like 100-200 feet away from the Truxton-Eckington border. On the TruxtonCircle.org discussion board someone mentioned a bakery on North Capitol that’s been around forever. The only problem, it just doesn’t look like they want to sell me baked goods. Now I’d buy your baked goods if you really want to sell me your baked goods AND if it like them. But if you don’t want to sell me your baked goods then, oh well. I mean print up possible hours of retail operation, stick it on the door, maybe get one of them orange OPEN signs. Oh, and shoo away the loiterers. Am I asking for too much?

An old fellow across the street from me died of cancer yesterday. Well that’s what I was told when I ran into another neighbor on the street. The doctors only gave him two weeks to live but he stretched it out by a couple of months. Come to think of it, I had not seen him lately. I’d seen his grandkids and other folk visiting the house, but not him. Last I saw him he had a walker, which was unusual because he got around, driving and whatnot without much assistance.
Now I’m figuring out what is the proper course of action. Visiting with a plate of food tends to be the usual thing. I can’t think of anything besides potato salad (everyone cooks potato salad). I might just do flowers.
At the BACA meeting it was mentioned, as well on another neighborhood email list, that Carl Hunter one of the people in the March 2nd crash on New Jersey Ave passed away. Carl and Shirley Hunter, residents of the area, were traveling to work when the accident occurred.

…Are completely useless and meaningless if not enforced.

Back at the BACA meeting (I think) someone asked someone (one of the candidates, really I’m not trying for accuracy, just credit) why ugly crap gets built in Shaw and our part of town and not places like Georgetown. I can’t remember the exact answer but it boiled down to enforcement.
There is something good gad ugly going up on the pepto bismol colored house on Rhode Island Ave (NE?). Is it legal? Dunno? Thing is if no one, who is really interested (as I am only slightly interested) in fighting the erection of the ugly addition of another level, then the ugly thing gets built. If no one calls DCRA questioning it, or checks with the Zoning board or challenges the legality of it, then it gets built. Now if the pepto colored house was in Georgetown where there is a vigilant populace with various DC agencies on their speed dial, they more than likely would be challenging it as soon as the first cinder block was spotted. Of course, the addition on the pepto house could be all perfectly legal, with the proper papers and plans filed, and despite what I think the addition could be beautiful. Yeah.
There are also laws against construction work not between 7am & 7pm. Yet for about a year the contractor at 1617 NJ Ave NW started after 7pm. I would call and occasionally the police would come out and enforce the rules. That is if I wasn’t challenged by the dispatcher who thought it was perfectly legal to hammer away at 9pm.
Rules, laws and regulations created by the city that were not enforced by the city are like as if no rule existed at all. I understand that the city needs citizens to call in, write or whatever to alert the city when its laws, regulations and what have you are being violated. Citizens also need to know that they have to hold the city accountable for the enforcement of those laws when they alert the city to such violations. The government, thankfully, is not an all knowing, and all seeing Big Brother that knows immediately when wrongdoing is occurring.