While this editor had heard rumblings about this from our staff who live in Columbia Heights, it wasn’t clear whether it was true: was ANC 1A actually pushing to change the name of part of the neighborhood to “Tivoli North” because of some April Fools jokes? Well, as Greater Greater Washington reported yesterday, kinda sorta. The ANC had been considering a proposal for promotional banners well before April which would have, at least marginally, recognized the stretch of 14th Street between Monroe and Shepard Streets NW as “Tivoli North”. But after emails and (admittedly obvious) blog posts began making the rounds on April 1 claiming that the ANC was exploring slapping the “Tivoli North” moniker on the neighborhood as a whole, folks got uppity and came to the ANC’s most recent meeting in droves. Long story short, the banners aren’t going up (yet), and the hood is still good, old Columbia Heights. Man, between this and the brouhaha over The Hoya’s April 1 edition, not doing an April Fools joke is looking like a better decision by the day.