- The latest on the U Street shooting: Councilmember Jim Graham, who returned to the city from a vacation at the beach, told TBD that gang members from Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights were taunting each other during the funeral for Ashley McRae. Meanwhile, U Street between 9th and 14th Streets is still mostly closed off to traffic and some pedestrian traffic — if your commute home takes you to or across U Street, you’ll likely need to find an alternate route and/or display some patience.
- Kudos to Columbia Room — or as we described it, “a spa for alcoholics” — which is the 18th best cocktail bar in the country according to GQ.
- D.C. has the highest median household income among major American cities, says CNNMoney.com. But, as Annie Lowery points out, the District also has the highest rate of extreme poverty.
- The D.C. streetcar system now has a management team. Let’s see, there’s the manager of the Seattle and Portland streetcars projects, an engineering firm that landed federal funds for streetcar development in Tucson and New Orleans, an architecture firm that designed the Portland streetcar system and a consultant firm with experience with securing federal funding for transportation projects. So, you know, the references check out.
- TBD reports that the city has ordered a general clean up of Parcel 42, where protesters and homeless individuals have been living in a tent city for over two months.
- Greater Greater Washington says that the 7th and H mosquito might have been swatted.
- 20007, 20015 and 20016 are the D.C. zip codes which made Forbes’ list of most expensive ZIP codes, based on median home prices.
- Won’t somebody please think of the boat people?
Photo by Madame Meow.
