A Cleveland Park resident has identified the latest pestilence he would like to see the D.C. Council confront: gasoline-powered leaf blowers. more ›

Can't wait for Mike Isabella's Bandolero to open in Georgetown? You don't have to—he's bringing it to Cleveland Park for a two-week stint. more ›

A stretch of Cleveland Park got an unexpected bath earlier today when a contractor working on the 3400 block Connecticut Avenue NW struck a service pipe, unleashing a massive jet of water that drenched the area outside the Uptown Theater. more ›

A neighborhood's name is part of its identity. Adoption of it, or aversion to it, can say a lot about where a place is going -- and where it came from. Today, we’ll look at the genesis of "Woodley Park" and "Cleveland Park." more ›

Cleveland Park's Ireland's Four Fields is sticking around, at least for another few months. more ›

The Cleveland Park listserv is currently hosting quite the lively debate over the leashing of dogs in public. While that's hardly a foreign topic for a large D.C. listserv, one post which branched off from the main conversation certainly grabbed our attention. more ›

Cleveland Park residents -- and most everyone else who had ever patronized the place -- were deeply disappointed to learn over the weekend that Ireland's Four Fields will be closing its doors on November 5. more ›

The redevelopment of the Cleveland Park/McLean Gardens/Wisconsin Avenue Giant -- which has been in the works now for well over a decade -- has been at the heart of one of the city's longest-running and deepest-cutting neighborhood spats. more ›

Built in 1912 by architect Charles Adam Platt for owner James Parmalee, the Causeway (as it was known then) is a 20 acre estate with open fields, woodlands, stone bridges, formal gardens, a pond, and meandering streams in the Cleveland Park neighborhood. Now a part of the Washington International School, the estate hearkens back to when the neighborhood was comprised of farms, summer houses, and isolated suburban estates like the Causeway. The house itself is a three-story, neo-Georgian mansion with a foyer featuring pillars, high ceilings, and an ivory marble floor. more ›

On October 29, the National Zoo put on Night of the Living Zoo, an evening of rock and roll combined with some harmless Halloween revelry. It sounds like it a rollicking good time -- there were palm readers, fire eaters and illusionists, and DCist was on hand to check out the set performed by Grace Potter & The Nocturnals (which we rather enjoyed). But some of the Zoo's neighbors weren't too thrilled about the noise being made at the show, so they took their gripes to the most captive audience they knew of. To the listserv! more ›

All Life is Local points us to reports of an ATM skimming operation at a SunTrust machine located at 3440 Wisconsin Avenue NW in Cathedral Heights. It serves as a good reminder that, yes, these things actually do happen in the D.C. region: more ›

A few observant Cleveland Park residents tipped us off that the mural located on the east side of 2902 Porter Street NW -- whose ground floor was formerly housed a 7-Eleven -- had been whitewashed. It turns out that the new tenants of the ground floor, D.C. Immediate and Primary Care, painted over the mural in order to facilitate some remodeling. more ›

A hot-button issue in the District of Columbia is the ability of all its residents to have access to groceries. Cleveland Park certainly doesn't have that problem -- but it is a neighborhood that is the home to one of the most vitriolic fights over grocery stores in the city, a battle that is twelve years strong and shows no signs of going away anytime soon. more ›

Earlier this year, several Cleveland Park homeowners signed up for a free home energy audit offered by the District's Department of the Environment. Now they have letters from the contractor that DDOE had perform the audits, claiming that liens had being placed on their homes in order to recoup payment for the service. What a deal! more ›

If you need to drive somewhere in the District today, getting there won't be too much of a problem. Parking, though, might be. more ›

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After a few months where we wondered if any business could maintain an open storefront in Cleveland Park, it looks like two of the most quizzically empty spaces in the neighborhood have plans to be filled. Posters to the neighborhood's ubiquitous listserv have passed on the information that the space at Connecticut Avenue and Porter Street which formerly held a 7-11 could house an urgent care office. (Urgent care next to the new Walgreens? Convenient!). Meanwhile, the former McDonalds at 3407 Connecticut -- which has literally been empty for years -- could potentially become a diner. A fun place to get some awesome breakfast before or after a weekend matinee at the Uptown sounds utterly delightful. more ›

We've written about the sizzling drama inside the Cleveland Park Citizens Association before, and now the Ward3DC blog reports that the "UNITY" slate, headed by longtime resident John Chelen, has been declared the winner of Tuesday's election. Chelen replaces long-serving president George Idelson, the man who was ridiculed by local media earlier this year for accusing new members of CPCA, drawn to join due to the endless bickering over the Wisconsin Ave. Giant grocery store plans, among other development issues, of attempting a coup. Idelson eventually chose not to run again, leaving Jeff Davis and his "Reform" slate to oppose Chelen. more ›

We had been hearing about the imminent demise of Cleveland Park's 7-11, located at the corner of Connecticut Ave. and Porter St. NW., for a while, but after being reminded by City Desk that the convenience store did indeed shut its doors on Thursday, joining the Starbucks and the Magruder's Market on the growing list of neighborhood retailers who are giving up rather than face increasing rents amid a bleak economy, it's still hard to fathom. Who knew 7-11's, in all their ubiquity, could even go out of business? Granted, this location was at the top, rather than the middle, of Cleveland Park's commercial corridor, perhaps making it not quite convenient enough, but still. Are people really buying fewer Slurpees, packs of gum and nutritionally questionable taquitos? And wouldn't these Cleveland Park landlords trying to raise the rent prefer to have some kind of paying tenant, rather than no tenant at all? more ›

I was all prepared to write about the unabated decline of retail in the heart of Cleveland Park (even the 7-11 is closing, people!), but a much more interesting topic about the area was thrust into the public eye yesterday: implications of latent racism on the neighborhood's listserv, which will, no matter what, always take precedent over the unfortunate disappearance of Go-Go Taquitos. more ›

Resident Jeff Davis shared the news with the Cleveland Park listserve this morning that the years-long battle to allow Giant Food to remodel its store at Wisconsin & Newark appears to have finally come to an end. The project dates as far back at 1998, though it was revived in its current form in 2006 before being derailed once again by NIMBY concerns over traffic and parking. You'll recall that more recently, the Cleveland Park Citizens Association experienced a coup/meltdown in the wake of the impending Giant plan approval. more ›

Nothing breathes a little life into a slow news week like some neighborhood listserv drama. The comments and tips line have been buzzing about the Cleveland Park Citizens Association turning the area into a "banana republic." How? Well, let's start from the beginning. more ›

The Cleveland Park location of D.C.-area based Margruder's Market is closing its doors this weekend, according to Nbcwashington.com. Saturday will reportedly be the last day of business for the market, located at 3527 Connecticut Avenue NW, at the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and Porter Street NW. It's a bummer for the adjacent neighborhood, as Magruder's was a convenient spot to be able to pick up essentials. Magruder's locations in Gaithersburg, Rockville, Kemp Mill, Vienna, Falls Church, Alexandria and Chevy Chase will remain open. The rising cost of rent is cited as the reason for the closing. more ›

Do you live in Cleveland Park or its surroundings? If you do, chances are good that much like this editor, you are a walking zombie today courtesy of a terrifyingly loud alarm that went off early this morning at the University of the District of Columbia. more ›

WTOP is reporting a partial street collapse on Connecticut Ave. NW, just north of the Cleveland Park Metro station. Some metal plates that were covering up utility cuts on the southbound lanes collapsed this morning, leaving only one left lane for traffic. No injuries have been reported, but you might want to steer clear of the area while crews work to replace the metal plate. more ›

The Cleveland Park listserv is teeming with arguments in favor of and against eliminating the reversible traffic lanes on Connecticut Avenue, which many people claim to be unsafe for drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists alike; of course, others (read: commuters) are crying bloody murder at the potential increase in traffic jams during the morning and evening rush hour on one of the cities main arterial roadways. more ›

>> A second suspect in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a Prince George's County woman is under arrest after he was ID'd by a Metro transit investigator. [NBC4] >> D.C. firefighters and medics responded to the scene of an accident in Cleveland Park today that left a woman seriously injured after she crashed her car through a wall of her brick carport, collapsing part of it onto the car. [AP/WJLA] >> "If you're... more ›

We all know that Washingtonians love to complain about the lack of enough good grocery store options within the city, so perhaps this bit of news will bring us all some Friday cheer: local Giant Food stores, often considered some of the worst stores in D.C., are going to be getting makeovers. Dubbed "Project Refresh" by the company, the updates will include things like new floors and lighting, and focus on improving product quality in... more ›

Good morning, Washington. The weather-related headlines today are all generally pretty disappointing -- The Post proclaims that "Rain Likely to Dampen Area But Not Douse the Drought", and others have followed suit. But waving like a lone reed in the pessimistic sands of weather prognostication is CapitalWeather.com, who just minutes ago put up a prediction, based on a brand new model, suggesting that "several factors are finally lining up to bring the potential for... more ›

If you're a smoker still smarting over the ban on lighting up in District bars, fear not -- a Cleveland Park watering hole is now your refuge. According to the AP via WJLA, the District has granted its first exemption to the 10-month-old smoking ban, with the prize going to Aroma in Cleveland Park. The bar, which sells cigars and claimed a loss of 20 percent in the six months after the ban was imposed,... more ›