From the (temporarily continued) MPD2d blotter:
Theft occurred in the 1600 b/o 31st St. NW between 9/2007- 2/2008.
Citizen reports 2 water color paintings stolen from the storage area by unknown suspect.
This is the sort of crucial information we’re probably going to lose with a crime map-only information feed. Sure, it may say something was stolen, maybe even say it was artwork, but will it tell us what style?!
Filed under Crime
Apple's Proposal - As illustrated by the Georgetown Metropolitan
The other day, Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher weighed in on the decision by Georgetown’s ANC and the Old Georgetown Board to reject Apple’s second design for their proposed store at 1229 Wisconsin. Anyone who follows Fisher shouldn’t be surprised that he’s inveighing against the city’s preservationist Mandarins. Unless you’re talking about baseball or radio, Fisher typically has no time for historicism. But does he have a point? Read more:
Filed under ANC, Development
1935 Photograph from Library of Congress - Label "Poor children playing on sidewalk, Georgetown, Washington, D.C."
A scene you just don’t see that much more: groups of kids playing on the sidewalk, barefoot, and without adult supervision. More street kids after the jump:
Filed under History
The Washington Post is reporting that there will be bus-only lanes through Georgetown from Wisconsin Ave. to Washington Circle in Foggy Bottom on Inauguration Day. They write:
Although widespread bridge and street closures will restrict personal vehicle access, Metrobuses will be allowed to use both and will use special bus-only lanes through Georgetown from Wisconsin Avenue to Washington Circle (23rd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue), for example, bypassing regular traffic.
It’s a little unfortunate that the Washington Post feels the need to explain to its readers where Washington Circle is. But that aside, what they don’t do is say what road will have the bus-only lane. It could be either M St. or K St. Which is it? Find out that and how you might want to get used to the lane for the future, after the jump:
As described last week, Google can’t seem to decide whether Dumbarton is a street or an avenue. But at least there’s a historical explanation for the confusion. So can someone please explain why Google thinks that P St. extends from Foxhall Village through Archbold Parkway to Georgetown University?
Is it a remnant of some ancient P St. version of the Klingle Valley Rd. controversy? (This isn’t a reflection of the streetcar trestle, by the way. That’s a lot close to Foxhall Rd.).
Filed under Around Town
Heeding calls that the DC Crime Map software is non-functional, Chief Lanier reinstated the daily listserv crime summaries. On Tuesday she wrote:
We have recently received feedback from various members of our listserv groups around the city and learned of technical difficulties from various web browsers, with the exception of Internet Explorer. First, I want to thank you for the valuable feedback. To resolve these problems, I have asked our Information Technology staff to review them and develop solutions. I will reinstate the daily crime summaries for listserv postings for the next 30 days to allow I/T staff adequate time to improve upon the crime mapping application.
So it sounds like the daily crime summaries will return, but only for 30 days. After that point, the crime maps will be functional (but still unacceptable to GM) and the daily summaries will end again. It seems like the complaints have hit tin ears. Lanier hears technical difficulties where there are structural failures. Either Crime Maps are a solution in search of a problem, or Cherkis is right that the ultimate objective is just to provide less information to the public to avoid embarrassing bad press.
Yesterday morning, Fox 5 correspondent Holly Morris traveled to Dumbarton House to visit their new exhibit on the clothes of our early Republic. Check out Morris’ visit here.
Filed under Around Town
One of GM’s favorite routines is to call ahead to Pizzeria Paradiso on the way home Thursday night and order a pizza for pick up. By the time the Metro gets to Dupont the pizza is ready and it’s just a short bus ride home to a tasty Neapolitan dinner. But at that hour the bus is normally pretty full. So here’s the etiquette question: is it rude to bring a pizza home on a crowded bus?
Filed under Transit
The Georgetown Metropolitan 
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