Bloomingdame

The G8 lives on!

National Guard in a sunset stroll along Rhode Island Avenue, NW. I think my father is rolling over in his grave.

After nightmare traffic downtown today, I needed a Friday night news dump.

@andrewnazdin.bsky.social I missed you!

Wow! Phoxotic in Bloomingdale gets a recommended nod in the Michelin guide. This new spot replaced long time Chinese Dragon.

This came up in Bloomingdale months ago, a Petit Scholars on Florida Avenue. The Council was made aware of this but I guess nothing was done about it. ABCA approved the site.

Very strange research rabbit hole today. Trying to find someone in the 1950 census and it seems like a bunch of houses on the street were skipped. So tried another way to search and found the person’s mother was in Saint Elizabeths. The ED list is 169 pages!!!

Howard University was just the answer to a clue on @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social

100 years ago- Chief of Police Daniel Sullivan died at his V Street residence in Bloomingdale. (Happy to see that @librarycongress.bsky.social Chronicling America is working.)

This pic is over 7 years old and this building on Florida Avenue is still vacant - but on the market. Ground floor retail space with 3 condos above. Disappointed to see that the condo name does not pay homage to cell phones.

Just found this torn, stained 1943 handbook for civilian employees in the Army with my father’s papers. I’m sure he was still in the service then so not sure why he had this. But seeing War Department made me wonder what he would be thinking today.

Hello @metrobusinfo.bsky.social - another day of waiting for the D32 that doesn’t come. And the northbound stop before New York - supposedly G and 10th - is still a mystery.

As of this morning, the church property at 1st and Rhode Island is still on the auction calendar for September 25. (But it has been pulled at the last minute a couple of times .)

In 1939, a German farmer in a beer house called Hitler a farmer. He was sent to prison. Doesn’t seem so shocking today as it might have last year.

At the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue in Shaw.

I spy a picture of Bloomingdale!

Last empty lot in Bloomingdale is now going vertical. Glad to see the alley has reopened after the builder’s work caused the alley to collapse.

This is rich! 100 years ago, Maryland drivers who drove into DC were skirting the regs to save a few bucks (altho I think the top headline is misleading.)

What a lovely surprise! A neighbor (who I say hello to but don’t know) brought me peppers and tomatoes this morning as a thank you for letting him take a cutting from my fig tree the other day. I was so happy that someone asked first, and a thank you was more than enough. World seems better today!

These spotted lanternflies are strong and fast - they spring away like giant grasshoppers. I slapped one with my shoe and it just disappeared.

A neighbor who saw this arrest Wednesday afternoon said it was the same man who has been bothering people on First Street in central Bloomingdale and at Mundo Verde in Truxton Circle @cmzparker5.bsky.social @humaimtiaz.bsky.social @fixcircle.bsky.social

Think the biggest bike ride ever just went north on First in Bloomingdale.

Towing hat trick! Three cars just towed in Bloomingdale. @ddotdc.bsky.social had the No Parking signs up. 🤷‍♀️

I did NOT order this - I don’t even know what it is. But hope the driver makes it safely around DC tonight- this is the first time getting delivery since we have been invaded.

4 page letter from the Office of the Zoning Administrator to the Washington Commanders.

Here is the zoning determination letter for the proposed stadium at RFK. Sounds like the stadium dome will not count when determining compliance with DC’s Height Act.

Searching in DigDC for a photo I have seen before and ran across this 1956 photo of a backyard shed along Crispus Attucks Park in Bloomingdale. Tonight, there will be music @6:30 and a movie @7:30 in the park! @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social

Are you ready for some football? The Stone in Bloomingdale is and those guys haven’t even noticed a few scattered raindrops.

Enjoyed the nice weather for 30 minutes and 30 seconds after I went inside, I heard the roar of the jets. 🙄

PEPCOOOO! 🤯

😳La Joint Park? 😂