The Weekly Metropolitan
Photo by M.V. Jantzen. Good morning Georgetown, here's your weekly news round-up: A Georgetown woman started making and selling tasty sourdough bread loafs (with delivery). We bought one and it was great. Check it out. Crumbs and Whiskers unionizes. Davis Kennedy, longtime…
Georgetown Time Machine: Gas Shortage
This week for Georgetown Time Machine, I'm checking out a shot that may be a little more relevant to today than it may seem at first. It is a photo from 1974 and it comes from the DC Historical Society. The scene is of the service station that still stands at…
Wisconsin and M: The Annual Rites of Spring
This week on the podcast I’m exploring Georgetown’s annual rites of spring. Listen here or at Apple podcasts or Spotify. Here are the events/guides I discussed: Garden Tour: House Tour: Tudor Place: Spring at Dumbarton Oaks:
Northwest Georgetown March ANC Update
Hello and welcome to your March Northwest Georgetown ANC update! It’s going to be 70 degrees at some point this week! Baseball’s getting played in Florida! Spring is coming! There are lots of things going on with the ANC right now that I want to keep you up to…
ANC Meeting Next Week
The ANC will be meeting for our March session next Monday night at Visitation at 6:30 pm. A draft agenda is below. The big ticket item of the evening will be our consideration of a request to DDOT to evaluate the introduction of Resident Only Parking and introduce it where…
Introducing Wisconsin and M: A Georgetown Podcast
Who needs another podcast? Nobody of course! But I’m going to do it anyway. I’ve been thinking about putting out a regular short (5-10 minute) podcast that covers news you should know as a Georgetown resident. My first podcast is about the state of…
New House Proposed for Long Vacant O St. Lot
In January I reported that a long vacant lot on O St. just east of Hyde-Addison school was for sale. Now the new or prospective owner is proposing the construction of a new home on the lot, according to a recent Old Georgetown Board filing. As I…
The Weekly Metropolitan
Photo by M.V. Jantzen. Good morning Georgetown, here's your weekly news roundup: Georgetown's first cat cafe shuts down amidst claims of union busting. Where to find some women-owned restaurants around Georgetown. L.A. coffee shop coming to Wisconsin Ave.
Hyde-Addison Update
Below is another periodic update on Hyde-Addison from Hyde parent Phil Mone: Hyde Addison Elementary School (3219 O St NW) is a public school with grades PK-3 to 5 with an average class size of 19 (not including Hyde’s PK-3 class which is capped at 16). The school’s in-boundary…
I completely agree! But based upon my discussions with DDOT, I can see that the city is not going to do that any time soon. I’m the first to admit that ROP is an imperfect solution. At best it’s a bandaid, but sometimes you need a bandaid while waiting for a better solution to finally come.
Yes, and pushing for more enforcement is also important, but it’s much easier and quicker to enforce the red signs than to catch someone violating the 2 hour rule. And the signs have a self-enforcing aspect in that people are less likely to violate them knowing they can be ticketed right away.
Yes. It’s up to DDOT to decide which blocks will actually get it. We’ll see how many (if any) they include. For the blocks they do include, they aim for 50% green spaces and 50% red, but there’s no hard written rule on that (other than a rule that it can’t be more than 50% red).
Editorial on Resident Only Parking
My ANC colleagues, Daniel Chao and Paul Maysak, and I were asked to submit an editorial to the Georgetowner on the resident only parking proposal. In case you missed it, here it is below: The ANC is exploring a change to how parking is managed in Georgetown that…
Stay Away From the Potomac Right Now
Perhaps you've heard, but if not: there was a massive sewer main break up along the C&O Canal near the DC and Maryland border. Millions of gallons of raw sewage poured out and into the river. It was really bad. Well it's still really bad. All that incredibly…
Reminder: This Cold Streak Won’t Kill Mosquitos
Last year I reported on the sad news that despite what I previously thought, deep cold stretches in the winter do not reduce the amount of mosquitos in the following summer. I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer, but here's what I wrote last yeat: One…
Historic District Signs Proposed for Georgetown
Georgetown is more than simply another neighborhood in DC. It's even more than simply another old neighborhood in DC. It is a neighborhood that was uniquely a former independent municipality that is not only older than DC itself, but older than the…
The Weekly Metropolitan
Good morning Georgetown, here's your weekly news round-up: First off, obviously the city has failed once again to pick up the trash they said they would. That's now three days this week when DPW said they were about to finally take away trash and they simply didn't show up.…
Trash Continues to Pile Up
I am the first to cut the city a little slack in terms of dealing with this unprecedented snow-ice-freeze weather we've experienced over the last ten days. But the trash situation is getting absolutely out of control. Residents have been pleading for some, any pick up to…
Northwest Georgetown February ANC Update
Welcome to your February update for northwest Georgetown! Snow and Ice The storm that hit us last week was genuinely a freak confluence of conditions. In the 26 plus years I’ve been in DC, I can’t remember a time when we had such a significant snow become…
The Weekly Metropolitan
Photo by M.V. Jantzen. Good morning Georgetown, here's your weekly update: The city is obviously not doing a good job dealing with this snow. For particularly unpassable streets, please call in to 311. I was told informally not to expect any trash pick up until next week,…
ANC Meeting Next Week
AGENDA ANC 2E- February 2 2026 as of 1.25.docxDownload The ANC will be meeting for our February session next Monday night. During this meeting Councilmember Brooke Pinto will be with us to give her annual update and answer questions from the Commission and public. So please…
Bridal Shop Changes Hands Again
The bridal shop at Volta and Wisconsin appears to be changing hands again. An application with the Old Georgetown Board indicates that Love Couture Bridal is aiming to take over the shop. Love Couture Bridal is a bridal shop located out in Potomac. This would appear…
Canal Boat to Return in 2026
After an extended period, the C&O Canal will finally be re-flooded this year and the canal boat will return. This is according to an update from Georgetown Heritage, which was responsible for bringing a new boat back to the canal in 2022. After a year of plying the…
Georgetown Time Machine: Waterfront
This week for Georgetown Time Machine, I'm exploring a fascinating photo that came to my attention from this interesting thread from a vintage photo group on Facebook. The photo itself is the Library of Congress collection. It's from roughly 1909 and shows the…
Weekly Metropolitan
Photo by M.V. Jantzen. Good morning Georgetown, here's your weekly news roundup: Los Cuates appears to be closed. I spoke with NBC4 about the Volta Park situation. Halcyon House sells for $28 million.
Georgetown Time Machine: Flood
This week on Georgetown Time Machine, I'm exploring yet another interesting shot from the DC Historical Society. According to the photo's record, it is showing the old Aqueduct Bridge during the great Potomac Flood of 1889. To orient you, the old aqueduct bridge ran…
