>> There’s a new webcam available showing the progress of Monument Realty’s Half Street project, which includes the expansion of the Navy Yard Metro station. [Near Southeast DC Redevelopment] >> Georgetown student pleads not guilty in hate crime investigation. [WJLA/AP] >> Members of the Metro board representing D.C. are pushing for higher parking fees at suburban stations in order to avoid increasing bus fares. [Examiner] >> A bunch of streets will be closed this…

Saturday at the Fringe brings audience goers political polemics, aerial artistry, deconstruction chic and a tour of some D.C. neighborhoods. When you have to navigate, don’t forget to use our special Fringetastic new Google Map. The best way to get to the show on time! Theatrical Performances: Frozty the Abominable Snowman, Landless Theatre There must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found! For when they placed it on his head, he…

Wasabi Wa-opens I have been searching for a good cafeteria-style Japanese place for a while. Since I’d be happy to go to Kotobuki every single day for lunch if it weren’t in Outer Mongolia, the opening of Wasabi gives me great joy. Conveniently located at 17th and I Streets, NW, for you downtowners, it’s a welcome addition to a scene dominated by places like the Park Place Gourmet. While my lunchtime map is roughly bordered…

Over the last few months, a number of people have found ways to plug the District’s criminal incident reports into online mapping programs, allowing us a visual snapshot of criminal activity from area to the next. First came incidentlog.com, followed closely thereafter by Post’s own crime map. Today our friends at Gallery Place Living tipped us off to a new crime map they’ve introduced, this one mixing weekly incident reports from Crimereports.com and the usual…

If a picture is worth 1000 words, then an interactive map must be worth 10,000. Well, at least that’s the thinking in the mayor’s office. Today D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams introduced a new way for residents to better envision how the city around them is changing — an interactive map highlighting accomplishments in 14 policy areas over the course of 2005, from economic development to employment to education. In a statement, Williams noted, “This interactive…

Damn it. Someone beat us to the punch on a new and very cool Google Maps hack. These days, pretty much everything is plugged into Google Maps. We even developed our own nifty little Google Map with the Metro system overlayed on it (which WMATA promptly ripped off, or so we’d like to think). Late last year, we figured it’d be cool to find a way to plug in the District’s list of criminal incidents…

We’ve written before about D.C.-related Google Maps hacks, including several excellent efforts to represent the Metro system. It looked like so much fun that we decided to give it a shot ourselves. So today we’re happy to announce DCist Maps, our very own Google Maps application. As you can see from the graphic, we’ve programmed an overlay of the Metro system over Google’s map of the region. Our map also lets you plot addresses, find…