Oct 23, 2007
Morning Roundup: Judge Roy Pearson’s Done Edition
Happy Tuesday, Washington. The news broke early this morning that Judge Roy Pearson will reportedly lose his job, according to sources cited by the Post. Pearson, who infamously sued the owners of Custom Cleaners first for $65 million and then later for $54 million for misplacing a pair of his pants, is a District administrative law judge who has continued to draw a paycheck despite being taken off of his case work since the…
Mar 23, 2007
D.C. Streets Closed for Marathon
UPDATE: DDOT has also postponed the previously scheduled closures of the inbound lanes on the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge this weekend to accommodate the marathon. DDOT has rescheduled the bridge work for next weekend, weather permitting. Nearly 5,000 runners will take to District roads tomorrow to compete in the Wirefly National Marathon. The race is set to start at 6:30 AM at RFK Stadium. As it takes runners through every quadrant of the city,…
Nov 19, 2004
NewYoFla Station Neighborhood Attractions
Sure, you’ve heard that after weeks of Red Line delays and weekend track work, WMATA is scheduled to finally open the brand-new New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet University station tomorrow. All this is well and good, but what can you get to from the new station? The most obvious destinations are of course the station’s namesake, Gallaudet University, the old Capital Children’s Museum where Artomatic is on display, and the huge hole that will be…
Sep 09, 2004
Real Estate Realities in NewYoFla
Sometimes we wish Lockhart Steele would be down here in D.C. We think he’d have a field day analyzing this new development set to go up across the Union Station railyards in Northeast in an area we like to call NewYoFla, the area immediately to the east and west of the intersection of New York and Florida avenues near the railroad tracks. Anticipating the arrival of the New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet University (that’s an awful…