“Dear PoP,

Looks like someone got new windows! What is this building? Its beautiful.”

We took an early look at this building a couple of weeks ago and learned that:

“It’s all residential, developed by the United House of Prayer.”

Do you like the multicolored panels?

If you have any fun or interesting animal/pet photos please shoot me an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail(dot)com with ‘Animal Fix’ in the title and say what neighborhood you’re from or upload to the PoPville flickr pool with your pets name and neighborhood. I can’t guarantee I’ll get them all posted but I’ll do my best.

“Who, me? I am not scared of the water”

“Chicken Nugget enjoys some ice cream in bed in Capitol Hill East”

“Hi! Here’s a picture of Sadie and Kasha, beagles from Dupont.”

This rental is located at Cleveland Avenue at 34th Street, NW:

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The Craigslist ad says:

“SUNNY ENGLISH BASEMENT APARTMENT WITH PRIVATE ENTRANCE THROUGH LOVELY GARDEN IN QUIET AND SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD WITHIN SIGHT OF WASHINGTON’S NATIONAL CATHEDRAL. EASY WALK TO WOODLEY PARK/ZOO METRO, BUS LINES, RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES. PARTIALLY FURNISHED, ALL STANDARD SIZED APPLIANCES AND NEW WASHER AND DRYER. MEXICAN TILE FLOORING IN THE KITCHEN AND BATHROOM. AIR CONDITIONING, WIRELESS, HIGH SPEED INTERNET AND CABLE TV. PARKING NOT A PROBLEM. SORRY, NO SMOKING OR PETS. UTILITIES INCLUDED. 
ONE YEAR LEASE.”

$1790 sound right for this English basement?

Photo by PoPville flickr user Mr. T in DC

“Dear PoPville,

We are trying to start a vegetable garden in our back yard. We built two raised beds for this purpose. I planted some peppers, some basil, parsley, cucumbers and zucchini. The next day I looked out the window and thought Hey, where’d the basil go? It looked like something had come along with scissors and cut the leaves off the basil and the parsley.

The next day, several leaves were missing from the pepper plants.

Last year we had cutworms eat the tomatoes, but somehow i don’t think cutworms are going to neatly snip off a couple of leaves a foot off the ground. Horticultural oil only mildly deters whatever-it-is. Birds? Squirrels? Has anyone else experienced this, and caught the plant vandals in the act?”

I was once told that Blood meal is a good deterrent. What do you guys do/use?

Photo of ‘Shake Shack, DC’ by PoPville flickr user JosephLeonardo

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Photo of ‘dangerously delicious chocolate from Dangerously Delicious Pies on H Street, NE’ by PoPville flickr user philliefan99

“Dear PoP,

Did anyone else talk about this awesome marching band that was roaming the streets around 7pm Wednesday night? I saw them on 9th st by the convention center, and they were headed toward Chinatown.”

Awesome! Anyone know who more about them?

This home is located at 1750 Lamont St, NW:

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The flier says:

“Rare opportunity for a grand Lamont St row house. Elegant original features, flexible updated floor plan perfect for contemporary living. 5BR + family room, den & 2 sunrooms, roof deck, columned front porch, gorgeous rear patio & garden, full basement, 2-car garage, central A/C, wood floors, 2 fireplaces. Walk Score = 92, walker’s paradise!”

You can find more info here and photos here.

This 5 bed/2 bath is yours for $1,195,000.

The Getaway is located at 14th and Meridian Pl, NW in the former Social space ( Dunes art gallery is on the 3rd floor.) They will open tonight at 7pm serving snacks, tomorrow and sunday at 7pm with a limited menu and next week at 5pm with a full menu.

You can check out the menu below:

Getaway-Menu

I look forward to hearing folks’ initial impressions (especially in contrast to Social.) We’ll revisit for a proper judging in a few weeks.

Photo by PoPville flickr user Lauren PM

You can talk about whatever is on your mind – quality of life issues, a beautiful tree you spotted, scuttlebutt, or any random questions/thoughts you may have. I’ll open this thread every Monday and Friday. So anything good happen to you this week?

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their warm wishes and congratulations sent on my wedding day. It really meant a lot to me (and the beautiful bride) and reminded me of what a great community PoPville has become. I’d especially like to thank Eric Nuzum, LoP, for his great work steering the ship earlier this week. So thanks again to everyone for their warm wishes (pictures still be worked on) and have a great long 3-day weekend!

From many emails:

MATTHEW (MATT) ALLEN HILL

· 6 feet tall
…· 165 pounds
· White male, Blue Eyes
· Dirty Blond Hair/Light Brown

Last seen: Tuesday, May 24th, 10:30 a.m. leaving Chinatown

Last seen driving: 1996 BLACK Honda Civic LX

DC Plate # DT-2747

PLEASE CALL: Officer McClam (Metro Police): 202-730-1903

To get more information, please contact Dave Russell (his boss at Capitol Hill Baptist Church) at druss49er@gmail.com or 336-207-8874

Photo by PoPville flickr user digital cure

From some emails:

UHOP Memorial Day Parade 2011

The annual United House of Prayer Memorial Day Parade will be Saturday, May 28, 2011 starting at 12 Noon. The parade is expected to conclude at 2:30pm.

The parade route is as follows:

Staging will be at 6th and M St NW
North on 6th St NW to S St NW
West on S St NW to 13th St NW
Turn on 13th St NW south
Around Logan Circle
To P St NW
East on P St NW to 7th St NW
South on 7th St NW
To M St NW
East on M St NW
Back to the Church at 6th and M St NW

UHOP encourages residents to participate in the last auxiliary in the parade and march back to the church.

11:00 a.m., Monday, May 30, at Logan Circle Park

The National Park Service, the Illinois State Society of Washington, DC and the Logan Circle Community Association will sponsor a Memorial Day Observance, paying tribute to General John A. Logan, founder of Memorial Day and to honor the efforts of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune to the colored men and women troops during World War I and II.

The event begins at 11:00 a.m., Monday, May 30, at Logan Circle Park, located at 13th Street and Logan Circle, N.W., Washington, D.C. This event is free and open to the public. Musical selections will be performed by renowned local vocalist, Alia Waheed of the National City Christian Church in Washington, D.C.

Serious Metrorail work – 4 stations closed:

Metro will conduct significant safety and reliability work on the Blue, Orange and Red lines over the Memorial Day Holiday Weekend (May 27 through 30) resulting in service changes for customers.

On the Blue and Orange lines, buses will replace trains between Federal Center SW and Minnesota Ave and Benning Road stations, and four stations—Capitol South, Eastern Market, Potomac Ave and Stadium-Armory—will be closed. The work will begin at 10 p.m., Friday, May 27, and continue through closing on Monday, May 30.

During this time, Metro will replace four track switches at Eastern Market station, replace 4,700 fasteners, make repairs to the aerial structure outside Stadium-Armory station, lay more than five miles of new communications cable to upgrade cell phone access and make repairs to 21 escalators and eight elevators at Eastern Market, Capitol South, Potomac Avenue and Stadium Armory stations.

Voted one of the best real estate agents in DC by the Washington City Paper Readers’ Choice Poll in 2009, hipchickindc aka the not-so-hip Suzanne Des Marais is the Principal Broker (DC) for Urban Pace, LLC. She lives (and sells a lot of houses) in Bloomingdale, but works all over DC, with everyone from first time buyers to highly regarded developers. Unless specifically noted, neither she nor the company that she is affiliated with represented any of the parties or were directly involved in the transaction reported below. Unless otherwise noted, the source of information is Metropolitan Regional Information Systems (MRIS), which is the local multiple listing system. Information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

Featured Property: 2100 1st St NW

Legal Subdivision: LeDroit Park
Advertised Subdivision per Listing: LeDroit Park

Original List Price: $899,900.
List Price at Contract: $899,900.
List Date: 03/08/2011
Days on Market: 22
Settled Sales Price: $850,000.
Settlement Date: 04/25/2011
Seller Subsidy: $0.
Bank Owned?: No Short Sale? No
Type Of Financing: Conventional

Original Good Deal or Not post is: here

The listing can be seen: here. To see pics, open the listing link, click on the listing then scroll through from the main pic.

Although many aspects of this home are not to everyone’s taste and some may seem dated, what you can’t tell from the pictures or the listing comments is that this property was immaculately maintained. The recent owner, an architect and his wife, bought the property something like twenty years ago. At prices twenty years ago, I imagine this grand corner home must have been an architect’s dream.

At the peak of the market in 2005, 2301 1st St NW, one of the grand corner houses in Bloomingdale edged into the 7 figures with a $1,050,000. purchase price. Since then, the prices for large houses along the impressive First Street NW corridor have ebbed and flowed. As Bloomingdale continues to develop in both recognition and commercial amenities, it’s not surprising that the prices are back on the rise. These are the top sellers over the past year.

Photo by flickr user David Boyle in DC

A very good source shares some very sad/happy news depending on your perspective…

It is very likely that the Johnny Rockets Dupont location 1718 Connecticut Ave. NW will be closing on Tuesday.

Any Johnny Rockets’ fans?

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“Dear PoP,

The Georgetown valet signs are up at 13th and U St, NW (below Boundless Yoga). It is sad to see such a beautiful and prime retail location go to a dry cleaners. The cleaners is huge and spans the entire building along u st. It even has a nice cafe area – but totally lost on a dry cleaner. Sigh. Had such high hopes for this spot.”

It is a great building that we judged back in March ’11. So let’s make this a two part question – for this specific prime location (13th and U St, NW) what do you think U Street would have most benefited by? What do you think U Street is missing in general?

I would love to see a beer garden like H St, NE’s Biergarten. Though I’m pretty excited that some skiball will be coming shortly to U Street, NW.

What would you like to see?

More good outdoor patio news – yesterday we heard about Capital City Diner’s (1050 Bladensburg Road, NE) great new patio and a couple of weeks ago Qualia Coffee launched their backyard patio at 3917 Georgia Ave, NW.

Now where the hell did spring go…? But they do look great!