The opening of the Massachusetts Avenue portal also accomplishes a major goal for the forthcoming Capitol Crossing complex.

A large sinkhole along Massachusetts Avenue in Southeast has closed a portion of the road.

NoMa has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years, but few people can seem to pin down what exactly makes the neighborhood what it is. That doesn’t seem to be a problem, though.

An 18-wheeler traveling down Massachusetts Avenue NW this morning found itself in a bit of a tight squeeze when its driver attempted the underpass at Thomas Circle.

One of the many embassies that lives on Massachusetts Avenue in the Dupont Circle neighborhood, the Uzbekistan Embassy cuts out of the stretch as a Beaux Arts beauty, with limestone balustrades, windows with corbels and guttae. The mansion once belonged to a coal magnate who drowned with the Titanic, and later became the Canadian embassy, now the Uzbekistan Embassy. The mansion, designed by architects Bruce Price and Jules Henri de Sibour, who designed many prominent…

According to the Post, a gas leak at 1000 Massachusetts Avenue has forced an evacuation of the headquarters of the Cato Institute. The leak has also closed off Massachusetts Avenue between 9th and 11th Streets NW to vehicular traffic. The building was reportedly evacuated as a precaution….

The Post reports that several buildings along Massachusetts Avenue NW had to be evacuated this afternoon, after a construction crew hit a gas line and caused a high-pressure leak. Authorities have temporarily closed Massachusetts between 9th and 12th Streets NW. Drivers and pedestrians would be best served to avoid the area this afternoon, if possible….

The Edmund Burke statue on Massachusetts Avenue and 11th Street NW is a perfect case for the Revisiting Series. Not only is the face on the bronze statue unfamiliar, but even if a passerby—vehicular or pedestrian—did somehow recognize Burke’s mug (or could catch a glimpse of the “BVRKE” on the base), they would still most likely be curious as to why one of history’s most vocal anti-revolutionaries has been immortalized in the capital city of…

We kid. Kind of. According to the Washington Business Journal, the Uline Ice Arena and the surrounding area may be the next frontier in development in the District. The arena, which is just north of Union Station and hosted the first Beatles concert in the U.S. in 1964, is being looked at by developer Douglas Jemal as the anchor for a new entertainment district along the lines of the popular East End/Verizon Center area. While…

Samuel Gompers is one of those names you vaguely remember from AP U.S. History, along with The Grange and the Know-Nothings. They fit in somehow, but you don’t exactly remember why. While he may not be on the tips of people’s tongues, he does have a rather large monument on Massachusetts Avenue NW near Mount Vernon Square. Gompers, born in London in 1850, was a major figure in the American labor movement, organizing and…