Comments on: Multiple Car Crashes at 13th and Girard Streets, NW on Nov. 13th

By: Daisy

Daisy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:25:14 +0000

There is a Brown St in MtP

By: Victoria

Victoria — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:54:15 +0000

I for one am glad for crashed stolen cars – it’s the only way I ever would have gotten mine back!

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:35:16 +0000

Yes, there was a Yale street as well – I believe that is now Fairmont, or at least that’s what I deduced from the 1904 pamphlet linked to above. (By the way, PoP, that pamphlet is incredibly interesting and at parts humorous – I think the pamphlet deserves its own post. The pictures are great and the text is fascinating, and I laughed out loud at some sections.) I don’t know if there were Cornell, Brown, or Dartmouth streets, though. None of those were mentioned in the pamphlet.

By: Princeton street??

Princeton street?? — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:17:54 +0000

So there is/was Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia…Was there also a Yale and Dartmouth Street?

By: andy

andy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:24:27 +0000

oh, by the way, did any of you guys see how HORRIBLE the lattes are down at Tynan? I just wanted to register my complaint about expensive local coffee on a comment thread about lamentable crime in Columbia Heights.

By: christopher

christopher — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:12:01 +0000

intractable, i just copied that same excerpt to post it here as well! if only the folks who wrote that could see the hood today. *sigh*

By: fedward

fedward — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:03:34 +0000

I noticed that Citation the other day, but the rest of the aftermath was long gone. Considering the last time this happened I'm glad I don't live and park on 13th anymore.

By: intractable

intractable — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:48:21 +0000

BTW: Just read through the tract on CH that you linked. The text reads as if it’s from a different universe.

A sample:

“Nowhere within the District of Columbia can be found a community freer from the objectionable classes than that on the ‘Heights’ ; and there is every assurance that present conditions in this regard will continue in the future development and building up of the section. All are alive to the importance of co-operating to that end.”

By: genius

genius — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:40:41 +0000

just ban parking on 13th. then the little rascals can have all the fun they want and no one’s car gets damaged. voila!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:27:28 +0000

The other day I saw that the almost-too-beautful Chevy Citation normally parked on that corner was among the victims. It had its back smashed in.

Citations are like sea turtles: ugly, impractical looking, hatched in the millions but extremely rare in their old age. To think that this one had overcome its humble beginnings, survived all that it had, to meet its end in a parking space at the hands of some idiot teenager — it makes me sad.

It makes me pretty angry that this happens all the time along 13th.