The DMV’s C Street Service Center will close for business after this Friday, and a new service center on Rhode Island Avenue NE will open on April 2.
The United States Park Police, DDOT and MPD have released the following road closure advisories for Saturday’s Veterans Day Parade. All closures should be re-opened by 5 p.m. Saturday. Roads closed at 6 a.m.: * Jefferson Drive from 14th Street to 4th Street, SW * Madison Drive from 4th Street to 15th Street, NW * Seventh Street from Independence Avenue to Constitution Avenue, NW Roads closed at 10:30 a.m.: * Lincoln Memorial Circle to Henry…
The Washington Times brings us the most, ahem, alarming piece of news we’ve seen this morning: that D.C. fire officials are investigating whether some firefighters have been running a prostitution ring out of several of the city’s firehouses. Around a dozen employees from at least four firehouses are being investigated for involvement in the prostitution ring, which fire officials first learned of after a criminal investigation last month into claims that a sergeant exposed himself…
From DC.gov: The District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles Georgetown Service Center, located at 3222 M Street, NW in the Georgetown Park Mall – Lower Level, is experiencing an air conditioning outage. Temperatures were at 89 degrees inside the facility at 8:15 am (the scheduled opening time) and will not open for service today, July 19. Seventeen customers were waiting outside the facility prior to the scheduled opening and were allowed to come into…
The Associated Press has discovered the one thing State Department employees are more frightened of than a backlog of passport applications: wasps! Cicada-killer wasps to be precise, which have infested areas around the State Department’s headquarters at the Harry S. Truman building on C Street NW. A memo obtained by the AP tries to calm the fears of Stateys regarding the menacing looking wasps by pointing out that they are “generally not aggressive and do…
On Sundays, DCist publishes opinion pieces about life in D.C. The views expressed below are solely those of the author. It wasn’t until I started working in the city that I really knew anything about the city. I’ve lived in the suburbs of D.C. for a considerable chunk of my life and had always seen D.C. recreationally. My daily life happened in the god forsaken outer corners of Tyson’s Corner, McLean, Reston and Herndon. Fun…
Up and at ’em, Washington. “Early to bed / early to rise / makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,” goes the saying. Well, two area initiatives are in healthier, wealthier positions this morning. First, City Administrator Robert Bobb has confirmed that D.C. will enter negotiations with Deutsche Bank for a stadium financing deal. The proposed package would apparently ease the tax burden placed on city businesses by giving the bank a piece of…
The circus is coming to town (the MCI Center to be exact), and that means it’s time for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey animals to parade across Capitol Hill. On Monday, March 21, at approximately 1:30 p.m., the elephants (and, for the first time, a donkey — “in order to celebrate the non-partisan event of the circus and the spirit of the Nation’s Capital”) will make the trek from 32nd and D Streets,…
DCist has less-than-fond memories of the Department of Motor Vehicles office on C Street in Judiciary Square. It can a dreaded office, where long lines, Byzantine rules and sometimes, just sometimes, your requests can strike a sensitive nerve with clerks. When we got our drivers license a while back, DCist got embroiled in a four-hour ordeal that involved us pitting the helpful front desk clerks against a secondary clerk in back regarding whether our combination…
DCist had nearly forgotten about the start of Segway tours of the capital’s major attractions, until this weekend when we came across this scene at the intersection of New Jersey Avenue and C Street NW. City Segway Tours, which operates similar operations in Nice, Paris, New Orleans and Chicago, started operations in the nation’s capital this summer. The company hosts both day and night tours of the White House area, memorials, Smithsonian campus and U.S….