The cost will depend on the location — $3,000 dollars for parking spaces on King Street and less for spaces in the rest of the city.
It’s never too early — even if you’re an Imperial Stormtrooper — to celebrate a slice of the Irish life. Even though St. Patrick’s Day won’t officially be here for another ten days, that wasn’t going to stop Alexandria from getting their green on and marching down King Street on Saturday.
The Upper King Street Neighborhood Association launched its Fresh Farmers’ Market (not to be confused with the FreshFarm markets) yesterday in King Street Garden Park (across from the King Street Metro). The market primarily features produce grown by local farmers (sworn to be homegrown (PDF)), as well as fresh flowers and canned dips/spreads (pumpkin pie spread, black bean/hot pepper dips). Despite a small number of vendors, the market provides residents, visitors, and commuters an opportunity to…
WMATA has announced that the Huntington and Eisenhower Avenue Metrorail stations will closed this weekend due to major track work, so there will be no Metrorail service between those two stations and the King Street station. Beginning Friday at 9 p.m. and going through the Veteran’s Day holiday to midnight on Monday, Yellow line trains will be running to Franconia-Springfield via King Street. Shuttle bus service will operate between Huntington and King Street, with a…
>> We would have liked to have read about “The Best Bars in DC For Ensuring That You Will Not Run Into a Single Person Even Vaguely Connected With Politics or Media (crossposted to Gridskipper).” Good luck to you, Pareene. [Wonkette] >> A fire will be set Saturday morning on Metrorail’s bridge over the Potomac River as part of an emergency-response drill involving 100 firefighters from seven area jurisdictions. The Yellow line will be shut…
If you’re heading to any Yellow line destinations this weekend, including National Airport, you should make alternate plans. Metro is shutting down the Yellow line rail bridge over the Potomac River this weekend to do track maintenance and conduct an annual bridge inspection. The closure begins tonight at 10 p.m. and lasts through Sunday at midnight. Directions from WMATA: When a Yellow Line train arrives at the King Street Metrorail station, passengers must transfer to…
Now that’s a pretty Metro stop. Our DCist photogs always impress us with their eye for the underground architecture, but this one of the otherwise bland King Street marker by Flickr user guenno is particularly impressive. EXIF….
The day has finally arrived — the official release of J.K. Rowling’s final installment in her Harry Potter book series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is scheduled for midnight tonight (unless of course you received one of those magical early copies that have been floating around). For all you D.C. area Potter nerds out there (and as we already know, there are a whole lot of you) looking to celebrate tonight, here’s some area…
No Paper Crowns for the Guests The Majestic—the latest addition to Cathal and Meshelle Armstrong’s Alexandria empire—held its preview party last night, and DCist was in the house. The King Street restaurant was packed with all your various foodie types mauling the chef and owners, mugging for the roving photographers, and swilling both wine and gossip. With such a high density of gastronauts, I’m sure Majestic’s owners would have rather been serving up their food…
An accident involving two Metro employees shut down the south end of the Yellow Line around 9:30 this morning. According to Metro, a four-car train heading into the Alexandria railyard hit two track workers between Huntington and Eisenhower Ave. There were no passengers aboard the train, and the two workers have been taken to area hospitals. The King Street, Huntington, and Eisenhower Ave stations will be closed while the accident is investigated. Yellow Line…
