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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- ANC Commissioner Bill Starrels seen way up in AU Park challenging student votes.
- Another old Kennedy house is for sale. This time its papa Joe Kennedy’s mansion at 31st and P.
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Halloween, Crime, and Georgetown
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At the ANC meeting Monday night, Ed Solomon reported that Georgetown is experiencing a crime spike. GM’s crunched the numbers recently and concluded for himself that, yes, crime did tick up in the third quarter. But he was curious to know whether there’s a particular spike in crime in and around Halloween. So he went back and recrunched the numbers, this time he looked at crime on Halloween weekend (for the sake of clarity he chose the weekend before Halloween when it fell on a Mon-Wed, and the weekend after if it fell on a Thursday or Friday; in either case he looked at Fri-Sun for the numbers). Looking back to 2006, this is what he found out:
| Theft | ADW | Robbery | Burglary | Theft f Auto | Sex Abuse | Total | |
| 2006 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 14 |
| 2007 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| 2008 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| 2009 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 14 |
| 2010 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Average | 8.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 12.6 |
Crime has been very consistent in Georgetown for Halloween weekend (dare GM call it eerie?) The total number of crimes barely budges year to year, and averages 12.6. Unsurprisingly thefts lead the way, averaging 8.4, while thefts from auto trail far behind second with an average of 2.2. Robberies have been spotty, but burglaries have been been steady over the past three years. Continue reading
The Morning Metropolitan
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Even before hearing from BOEE, GM is going to call the ANC elections for the seven uncontested guys who were running for it.
- Carol Joynt takes a stroll through the depressing mall. (Bonus: The National Pinball Machine Museum looks like it’s getting close to opening).
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ANC Round Up: Traffic Alert Edition
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Last night the ANC met for its November session. Thankfully it was a short agenda, but really all that means is that they’ll find a way to stretch out the proceedings (actually in all fairness they finished up relatively early).
Those Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad (And Excessive) Street Closings
The ANC has been making some noise for sometime about the ever increasing number of street closings in Georgetown for various marathons, 10ks, funwalks, etc. They have particularly been critical of events that show up at the last minute. These typically have a disproportionate effect on lower Georgetown, although as demonstrated last weekend when three Potomac bridges were out, they can affect all Georgetown residents.
So rather than respond on a case-by-case basis, which doesn’t seem to work, the ANC is going to start to take a more proactive approach with the city, and in particular the Mayor’s Special Event Task Force. It’s not clear, though, how much they’ll be able to convince the city to limit the number of events coming through Georgetown. Tom Birch had the perceptive point that working with other neighborhoods to convince the city would increase Georgetown’s sway (and conveniently make it less of a “whoa is Georgetown”-thing, which doesn’t win many sympathetic ears).
Ron Lewis was particularly concerned that these events be charitable and not a profit-making enterprise. Birch also suggested the city come up with some more locations that don’t affect residents (GM can’t think of many of those that aren’t NPS land).
So after spending a good five minutes railing against the creeping menace of races, the ANC turned to its next item:
Lawyers Have a Heart 10K
After listening to the commissioners complain about races, a representative of the Lawyers Have a Heart 10k race presented their plans for their next race. It will be in June 2011 and will involve shutting down K St., the Whitehurst, and Canal Rd. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Blogger stops by L2.
- Jack Evans doesn’t see much of a role for himself in fighting GU’s ten year plan. Their ten story smokestack on the other hand, well, that’s a different story.
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On the Waterfront: Ray’s Warehouse
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As part of his occassional series on the buildings that once made up Georgetown’s industrial waterfront, GM turns to Ray’s Warehouse, which once stood at 3260 and 3262 K St.
Name: Ray’s Warehouse
Built: 1855
Built By: Ray family
Current Use: Demolished 1974
A little while ago, GM wrote about Bomford’s Mill at the corner of Grace and Potomac St. It was one of a few prosperous flour mills that used water power from the canal. Another of these flour mills was built by Alexander Ray and his two sons. It was built in 1847, just two years after Bomford’s Mill. In fact, the Rays had to “sublet” 100 inches of water pressure from Bomford (Bomford had rights to 400 inches). Eventually the mill built for the Ray’s was torn down and rebuilt as the building that currently stands at the corner of Potomac and K.
To provide storage space for the mill and to have a dock, the Ray family built a warehouse on the 3262 K St. property, which they had acquired in 1853. Previous to the construction of the warehouse, the property was vacant.
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The Morning Metropolitan
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest,
- Commander Salamander will close at the end of the year. This time it’s for real.
- Tomorrow Dumbarton Oaks goes to its winter hours, which means it’s free admission till next spring.
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