The Georgetown Metropolitan

As GM wrote about last spring, the planned construction of a gym for the Hyde-Addison school will require the school to temporarily relocate (up to two school years). The Department of General Services (DGS) and DC Public Schools (DCPS) are pushing a temporary location that is halfway across town (the Meyer School at 11th and Euclid near Columbia Heights).

[If you don’t care about hearing the backstory, please skip ahead to the bold text below for GM’s call to action.]

This would be hugely detrimental to school population and the community has repeatedly demanded the planners find better options closer to Georgetown. It would require busing kids as young as three years old across town in the middle of rush hour. Google Maps estimates that in normal traffic this could take as long as a half an hour. That’s on top of whatever time it takes a family to get to Hyde and then load the bus. This will mean hours of educational time will be lost every week. Continue reading →

Photo by Geoff Livingston.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Peet’s Coffee at M and 33rd will open next week.
• Broken streetlights cited in connection with sexual assaults. (It should be pointed out that there’s no consensus among criminologists that increased street lighting does anything to reduce crime.)

1200 block of 29th St.

Photo by M.V. Jantzen.

Of all the things GM has written about over the years, the topic that he is most proud about shining a light upon is the pernicious Dessert Deserts in Georgetown. These a places where you may have to walk up to two whole blocks to get to a frozen food purveyor. But what GM only recently realized is that focusing only on the availability of all frozen foods, he failed to recognize that as of right now no frozen yogurt shops exist in Georgetown.

There was a time when there were five different shops selling frozen yogurt: Ice Berry, the other Ice Berry on Wisconsin, Sweet Green, Pinkberry, and Sweet Frog. With the recent closure of Pinkberry, now all of these shops are either gone or have stopped selling frozen yogurt. Continue reading →

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Inside the great Frida Burling’s house, which can be yours for $4 million.
• The new Sundavich is open on Grace St. now.

C & O Canal

Starting next week you can get wrapped up in two different fictional stories of Georgetown kids living in alleys.

The first is a play at the City Kids Theater (the childrens theater arm of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts) called “Cashell Alley Kids Kick it Old School”. It’s the story of a group of kids trying to pull together a history report on their neighborhood without the aid of the internet (the power went out). It was written by Raya Kenney, the young woman who is responsible for the alley being named Cashell Alley, which backs up to the Lutheran Church, where the production takes place. Continue reading →

Photo by Aimee Custis.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Some alarming sexual assaults around Georgetown recently.
• Speaking of a sex-related crime, the Peeping Rabbi lost his appeal.

3000 block of R St.

Photo by Aimee Custis.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Positive review for the BID’s summer sidewalk widening.
• Wanna learn about herb-flavored Gruit beers? Come to Pizzeria Paradiso next week.