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May 19, 2005

Where Is the East End? Just Look for Fun Street

(Editor’s Note: Earlier reports of this DCist’s loss of an arm are unfounded. It was actually our big toe.) DCist loves Fun Street. You ask: “Where might that be?” In what seems to be an aborted late 1990s marketing rebranding attempt, F Street near the MCI Center was given a Botox injection in the form of “Fun” Street to place emphasis on the strip’s funness quotient. It never caught on, but the signs remain….

Nov 29, 2004

Battle Report on the Gentrification Homefront

In the Post’s Real Estate section this weekend, University of Maryland architecture professor Roger Lewis writes about the opening of the New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet University metrorail station on the Red Line in a greater development perspective. With federal offices moving in, the station has the potential to launch a new wave of development that will transform the area near the intersection of New York and Florida avenues in Northeast, seen here in an map…

Aug 31, 2004

Where’s My Polling Place?

If you live and vote in the District, beware. The D.C. Voter Guide is flawed and will point you to the wrong polling place, the AP, via WTOP, is reporting. The Post has more on the story. Guides that were sent out to voters for the upcoming primary indicated that a code on the mailing label would tell the receipient which polling station to report to. From WTOP: But there is no precinct number on…

 
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